Orange is the Colour

Date: 19^th August 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 3:30-4:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Orange is the colour

I found a nice song online that I wanted to share with the children. The lyrics are as followed:

Song: Orange is the colour (Tune: Yankee Doodle)

Orange is the colour of

So many things we see.

Would you like to sing a little

Orange song with me?

Orange juice and orange cheese,

Orange carrots, if you please.

Orange pumpkins, orange leaves,

Let’s sing a song of Orange.

I always wanted to try to make some homemade play dough for the kids to play with. At the same time, I also wish that the children could lay their hand in by doing it themselves. So today, we had a short discussion about the ingredients that we need to use to make homemade play dough.

Teacher: Do you know what play dough is?

Children: No.

Teacher: Just like clay that you play or that colourful play dough that your parents might have brought from the shop.

Children: Oh, yes. I have play dough at home.

Teacher: We can actually make it by ourselves. Do you know what ingredients we need?

(The children were quiet for a while, thinking very hard.)

Jun Qian: Soil…..maybe water…..

Teacher: Yes, water. Maybe we can use something else besides soil.

Bee Chien: Flour?

Teacher: Yes, flour. We can use flour. By adding water in we can make it into dough.

Jun Qian: I got one guess right.

We shall try to make some homemade play dough tomorrow and see if it’s successful.