Show and Tell (part IV) & The bus

Date: 25^th February 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30pm- 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Show and Tell (part IV) & The Bus

Today, Wei Ni, Yu Xi and Yu Xin were present in class. So I requested them to choose a toy either from the classrooms or from their friends to present for the Show and Tell session. Wei Ni chose a train toy from the classroom and gave a short presentation on it. Then it’s Yu Xi’s turn who had chosen a green train from Bee Chien’s toys and lastly it’s Yu Xin’s turn to give a short presentation on a police car. Three of them were given some sentences on how to talk about their transportation.

This week, we shall concentrate on bus. We had a short discussion about the bus. I drew a simple picture about the inner structure of the bus with seats and a bus driver.

Teacher: Let say, I wanted to go down to town but I don’t have a car or no one can drive me to town. What transportation I can take? (I pointed to the picture on the board)

Children: A bus.

Teacher: Where can I wait for a bus?

Children: Bus station.

Teacher: Bus station is for all the bus to stop and wait for passengers. Where can we wait for bus at the roadside?

Bee Chien: Bus stop.

Teacher: Yes, a bus stop. How can we tell the bus to stop?

(All children wave their hand to themselves and they shouted, ”Bus, bus, stop, stop.”)

I demonstrated by putting out my hand and wave slightly up and down by facing the direction of the bus. So I got all the children to do the same. Now, they know how to stop a bus.

Teacher: After we got on the bus, we have to tell the driver where to go and pay the bus fare. This is a public bus, so there’s no number given on the ticket. We just sit wherever there’s an empty seat. But if we are going to Singapore, we have to buy a bus fare with seat numbers. We don’t want to stand all the way to Singapore.

So I got some colour papers and some blocks with different shapes. The children trace the shape onto the colour paper. We shall cut out the shape and make it into a pair for our bus ticket and seat number tomorrow.