A Story Tuesday (29/03/2011) a) Hop in! • The kids gave lots of opinions on how to make their submarine. They saw me tracing a pot cover to get circles as windows for the submarine. They even suggested that the tower not to be closed so that the kids can pop their head out of the submarine body. They also suggested that a door is made on the tower of the submarine. The periscope shall be on the tower. Thus, I had to do the cutting separately as it’s dangerous when it involves cutter. The kids beautiful pictures were pasted all over the submarine. b) Storybook: The Submarine. • A Chinese storybook which I translated. This was a small submarine that carried the sailors to carry out missios such as rescuing shipwreck victims or for research purpose. The sailors packed their bags onto the submarine, said goodbye to their friends. The Captain introduced the tools in the submarine. There were computers ad screens in it. To sink, the submarine was filled with water and the gears were controlled so that it gave the submarine a jet propulsion to dive into the ocean. Of course, the propeller spinned and its function is similar to a fish tail that move a fish forward and moving to the left or right too. The sailors used periscope to see the ocean surrounding which can’t be seen outside of the window. In the event that submarine was nearing big rocks or barriers, the computer sensor would sound (Wee Xuan: Just like our car) loudly as warning. Thus, the sailors had to navigate the ship from the barrier. Finally, the submarine saw a shipwreck ad rescued the victims. It also used its robotic submarine to repair some damaged pipe in the ocean. Wow! In the very dark ocean, they saw fishes that glow such as Anglerfish ad some other fishes with highlight body. Next, to float to the surface again, the sailors emptied the water in the tank and started speeding up to the surface. c) Kaleidoscope and Periscope. A submarine uses a periscope to see the ocean surrounding. A periscope needs 2 mirrors to view this. However, we didn’t have mirrors to make as well as we didn’t have a real periscope. However, the school has kaleidoscope and I showed the kids. It consists of many small glasses in it so that whe the kids see through an image, the particular image can be viewed I many patterns. We are still looking for the mirrors to make a periscope. Hopefully, we can find some! d) Drawing and Recording • The kids drew their submarine in the ocean with underwater animals. Overall, they were independent. It’s quite fun drawing because a submarine body is quite similar to a fish; just like an aeroplane similar to a bird.