Learn more about Giraffe

Date: 29th June 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Learn more about Giraffe

 I get the children to spell the word "giraffe" before we start our lesson for today. Then, I get them to tell me what they remember about giraffe that we read about last Friday.

These were their sharing about giraffe:

Yi Ern: Tongue very sticky.
Aiden: The neck is so long.
Qiao Yi: The leg is so long.
Devon: It has a tail.
Xiang Qin: It eats leaves.
Jing Heng: It wants to drink water, it has to open its front leg.
Xin Yee: Giraffe is very tall.

After that, I shared a video about giraffe with the children.

Video Sharing: Giraffe: Animals for Children

From the video, the children finally cleared up their doubts about the name of pattern that they see on a giraffe. It's called spots as well. It's orangey brown spot.

We have another 20 minutes more before we called it a day. Therefore, I divided the class into 2 big groups. Each group I gave them a box of toys. Their task is to form a giraffe together by using all the toys they have. They have to work together. Even though some of them started to get into argument. However, the situation got a little better after one or two members in the group gave in.

Finally, both group managed to form a big giraffe with their toys.