Castle Building: Day 4.


Thursday (19/04/2012)



a) The Castle Roof.

* Today we continued with building the roof.

* The class was divided into 2 groups. A group to make flags using paste table cloth so that it won’t get wet under the rain. Another group would help at building.

* I mixed the cement mortar. The kids took turns to place the bricks. Rei, Si Suen, Wei Lok, Hiro and Shang Hong got better at handling the cement mortar using the trowels.

* Next, they quickly placed the plastic crystal on top of the bricks. They looked just stunning!



b) The chairs.

 The extra cement mortars from yesterday; got hardened despite having water on it and covered up in a pail!

 Thus, the kids suggested that we made the 2 pails into chairs. That’s another good idea! They hoped that kids can sit there and chat during playground time.



c) The Flags.

 Shawn, Alisa, Jia Jia, Yu Xi and a few more helped to design the flags and paste them onto the straws. They used permanent marker pen to design.

 Then, they placed a few on the castle pots!



d) Magicland Castle.

* We have eventually finished our building except that kids request to paint it! We wanted visitors to our castle fell happy all the time! We voted on names and finalized with Magicland Castle. We hoped to add on some games within the castle. The kids and I thought of a few such as Hide and Seek, puzzle or Snake and Ladders. We would finalise it after Earth Day and Book Day activities.