Sewing Cloud (Final)

Date: 30th October 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Cloud (Final)

Today, we finished off with all the raindrops sewing of the last 2 children. Then, the children needed to add some facial expression to it.

Before they could do so, I use the hot gun to paste a pair of googly eyes to each of the cloud so that it looks cute. Then, one by one, they will add on the smiley mouth and any of the parts of the face on to their cloud.

This is the final look of it.

Hopefully, the children could make use of it to tell stories about the rain or clouds. Glad they like their own work.

Finally, our theme has come to an end. In November, the children will need to practice and do preparation for their year end performance. My blog will end here for year 2015. We shall meet again in year 2016. Goodbye!

Sewing Cloud (Part V)

Date: 29th October 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Cloud (Part V)

After the sewing process of the raindrops with the 2 children, I believe that today I might be able to work faster and more efficient. As expected, I managed to complete another 5 children today as most of them didn't want to add any extra raindrops to their cloud.

As I was so focused on their process, I had forgotten to take any photos of theirs during their work. Photos of their final work will be uploaded at my next blog.

Sewing Cloud (Part IV)

Date: 28th October 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Cloud (Part IV)

Now, with all the raindrops are ready! We started off with Leow Xun and Rachel today. Both of them wanted to add on their raindrops. Therefore, it took us a while to begin with the process.

I started off with Leow Xun first. It took us quite a while to complete the whole process. Leow Xun was very happy to see the raindrops tangling down and she already started to plan to tell story using this. Wow, it must be fun for her!

Then, I set off with Rachel. She also wanted to have 2 more extra raindrops. But she wanted the raindrops to be arranged differently from Leow Xun. We had some discussion before we started.

Sewing Cloud (Part III)

Date: 27th October 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Cloud (Part III)

Today, they needed to cut out the shape of the raindrops. I have some blue and dark blue felt. I have traced the shape of the raindrops on those felt. The children needed to cut out 2 blue and 2 dark blue raindrops. However, if any of them wanted to have more raindrops, they are allowed to do so.

At the same time, I guided Lucas and Yong Jun to stuff the artificial cotton into their cloud while waiting for the others to cut out the shape of the raindrops.

Play in the Rain

Date: 26th October 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Play in the Rain

The children had waited for the rain since we started the beginning of the theme. Due to the haze bad condition for the last few weeks, even if it rains, I didn't allow the kids to go out. However, the condition of the haze had improved a lot for the past few days. It has been raining since last weekend. Therefore, when the children saw the rain this afternoon, they asked if they could go out to play. We have only 2 raincoats. So the children will need to take turns to wear the raincoats and walked in the rain.

Here were some pictures for the activity that we had this afternoon:

Sewing Cloud (Part II)

Date: 23rd October 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Cloud (Part II)

After delegating all the necessary homework and reading today, we continued with the sewing activities today. Most of the children had done their first part of their sewing and only 2 more children needed some individual guidance.

Today, I concentrated on Yong Jun & Lucas. They did it quite well.

Sewing Project - Cloud (Part I)

Date: 22nd October 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sewing Project - Cloud (Part I)

Today, we started with our sewing project. All of them will get two pieces of the cloud, a needle and the colour of thread that they had chosen last week.

I guided them one by one before letting them to finish their thread on their own.

Preparation for our Cloud Project

Date: 16th October 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Preparation for our Cloud Project

I have told the children some time ago about this project. Since October is coming to an end soon, that also means that our water theme is going to end as well. We shall start a new theme in November when the 6 years old children joined us back in our thematic class.

Therefore, I showed the children some materials that we are going to use and we also discussed the colours of thread that they wanted to use.

I have cut the outline of the clouds for each of them. The children showed quite great interest to start soon. As we needed to sort out our phonic exercise and writing for the weekends, we shall start with the sewing session next week.

These are the materials that we needed for the sewing session.

Phonics Class

Date: 15th October 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Phonics Class

Today, we concentrated on our phonic class as we had been left it untouched for a day or two. Therefore, there's no theme activity for today.

Book Sharing & Blowing bubbles

Date: 13th October 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Book Sharing & Blowing bubbles

Today, we started off by having a book sharing session with the children. I chose the book - Ted, Bo and Diz The First Adventure. This lovely book is about these 3 friends who went on an adventure in their dinghy and they encountered a group of polar bear sleeping on the iceberg. When the iceberg started to break off, they needed to find a way to send the polar bears home. Fortunately, there were a group of whales nearby which they could help to send the polar bears home. The moment they said goodbye to the polar bears, came a bigger piece of iceberg with lots of penguins on it.

From here, I have to explain the globe to the children. They gave me some answers with my guidance such as where they could find polar bears and penguins. With this lesson, I also brought up the issue of the changes of climate and temperature of the Earth that causes such an encounter. I'm not sure how much could the children understand. Yet, with such thoughts, hopefully they could explore it much further in the future.

We have another about 20 minutes left for the lesson today, I brought the children back to the garden again with the bubble solutions that we had mixed the other day. We tested with some of it and found out that the bubble solution still can be used. Therefore, I gave each of them a bowl and the hoop. After the first experience they had previously, it seems that the children could handle the bubble solution much better this time. They even enjoyed it much more compared to the other day. We had used up all the bubble solution this time.

Note: 14th October 2015, Wednesday will be a public holiday. It's Awal Muharram. The school will be closed. Therefore, there's no blog update for tomorrow. 

Worksheet - Poem "The Rain"

Date: 12th October 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Worksheet - Poem "The Rain"

Today, I have prepared a worksheet for the children to work on it. It's about the poem that I found online which I think the children could understand it. - The Rain by anonymous.

The poem is as followed:
The Rain
Pitter-patter raindrops, 
Falling from the sky, 
Here is my umbrella, 
To keep me safe and dry!

When the rain is over, 
And the sun begins to glow, 
Little flowers start to bud, 
And grow and grow and grow!

I took out some words for the children to fill in the missing blanks. This is how the worksheet looked like:

After that, we added in some action for this poem so that the children could understand it much more. We all had a great time doing this activity!

Mixture of Activities

Date: 8th & 9th October 2015
Day: Thursday & Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Mixture of Activities

I used these two days to sort out some data and information that we had learnt so far with the children. Hopefully they could still remember the vocabulary that I have introduced during the beginning of the thematic class.

We had also did some discussion on our next activity that we could do before the thematic class ends at the end of October later. The children were quite interested with sewing as well. I found a very beautiful picture of clouds and raindrops that the children could work on it. Some materials will be needed for such activity, therefore, we shall arrange a time to start that sewing project.

Art Project - Paper Mache (Bowl) - Part VI

Date: 7th October 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Water is so FUN!
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Art Project - Paper Mache (Bowl) - Part VI

The children were quite excited when I brought in some colourful markers. Once the children had completed their Phonics homework today, they could start to decorate their bowl. Some of them started to draw all sorts of pictures on their bowl. It looked very beautiful and creative. I love it.

The children will bring home the bowl today. Hopefully they could make use of it.