Date: 27th August 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
National Day & new topic voting
National Day is just around the corner. I believe the children had already learnt quite a lot during their Mandarin thematic class in the morning. However, I wanted the children to express their thoughts and information that they know in English. To my surprise, the children couldn't give me much reply even I lure them with rewards (candies).
I started off by asking them if they needed to come to school on next Monday (31st Auguts 2015). They hesitate for a while and said yes. I doubted their answer and they immediately changed their reply. Children are quite observant in some sense.
Basically, we talked about the colours on the Malaysia flag - red, yellow, blue and white. I guided them to understand their age and the country's age. It took them a while to realize that connection. Anyhow, we did a sum to get the age of our country - Malaysia is celebrating its 58th National Day this year.
Then, we moved on to count the points that they could see on the yellow star. The children could only name me a few states such as Kedah, Selangor, Sabah, Melaka, Pulau Pinang and Johor. Therefore, I have to guide them to name the rest of the states and the federal government.
After the National Day session, we had a short break. After that, I divided the class into 6 and 5 years old. From next week onwards, the 6 years old children will start their pre-primary school programme for 2 months and after that they will be busy getting ready for the school year end performance.
I took the 5 years old children to a side to vote for a new topic. They had suggested 3 topics to be chosen:
1) About myself
2) Water
3) Cloth & clothes
After a round of explanation and voting, finally, "water" received the most vote. As a result, that would be our new theme topic from next week.
2015年8月27日星期四
Drama - The Hungry Lion
Date: 26th August 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Drama - The Hungry Lion
This week basically I will let the children to take turns to pick a different character to act in the drama - The Hungry Lion. Today, it was Zhi Yi & Yee Shuen's turn to be the lion in 2 different drama sessions. Even the children themselves pick their own character to be. As a result, some of the group will only have one child acting out one animal while some of the groups will have more than four children.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Drama - The Hungry Lion
This week basically I will let the children to take turns to pick a different character to act in the drama - The Hungry Lion. Today, it was Zhi Yi & Yee Shuen's turn to be the lion in 2 different drama sessions. Even the children themselves pick their own character to be. As a result, some of the group will only have one child acting out one animal while some of the groups will have more than four children.
Learn to read the lyrics & drama
Date: 25th August 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Learn to read the lyrics & drama
The children had some difficulty in following the song as they were not very familiar or even not sure what the lyrics were saying.
Therefore, today, I wrote the lyrics on the board and get the children to read along. Then, we try to see what kind of hand or body movements that we could use for the lyrics that we read earlier.
Basically, I only wrote these lyrics on the board:
In the jungle, the mighty jungle,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the village, the peaceful village,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the village, the quiet village,
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling,
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling,
The lion sleeps tonight.
With the hand and body movements that we had added into the lyrics, we played the drama again this time with the hope that the children could remember to add in the hand and body movements together.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Learn to read the lyrics & drama
The children had some difficulty in following the song as they were not very familiar or even not sure what the lyrics were saying.
Therefore, today, I wrote the lyrics on the board and get the children to read along. Then, we try to see what kind of hand or body movements that we could use for the lyrics that we read earlier.
Basically, I only wrote these lyrics on the board:
In the jungle, the mighty jungle,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the village, the peaceful village,
The lion sleeps tonight
In the village, the quiet village,
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling,
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling,
The lion sleeps tonight.
With the hand and body movements that we had added into the lyrics, we played the drama again this time with the hope that the children could remember to add in the hand and body movements together.
2015年8月24日星期一
Drama with some background music
Date: 24th August 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animal
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Drama with some background music
Today, the children still wanted to play with the drama performance. They wanted to try to be a different animal from previously. Therefore, I get them to draw lots. Most of them were quite happy with their picks.
Today, I have also picked a background music for the children to add in to their drama. Even though it's about 1 minute song, yet without any designed movement, I still finds it too long. Maybe we could figure out what kind of movement we can add in for this song. The song is "Lion Sleeps Tonight".
Here were some of the pictures taken during the activity:
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animal
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Drama with some background music
Today, the children still wanted to play with the drama performance. They wanted to try to be a different animal from previously. Therefore, I get them to draw lots. Most of them were quite happy with their picks.
Today, I have also picked a background music for the children to add in to their drama. Even though it's about 1 minute song, yet without any designed movement, I still finds it too long. Maybe we could figure out what kind of movement we can add in for this song. The song is "Lion Sleeps Tonight".
Here were some of the pictures taken during the activity:
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| Shang En is the lion today. |
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| Oh, look. Here comes the elephant. (Suzanne, Zi Yue & Xin Yee) |
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| "Uh, Uh, ah ah ah!" the monkeys said! (Leow Xun, Sueanne, Chloe & Lucas) |
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| "Stop! You cannot eat me! I am too clever!" said the monkeys. |
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| Here comes the crocodiles! (Yee Shuen, Yong Jun & Aiden) |
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| We are the zebras! (Jing Heng, Eugene & Rachel) |
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| "Stop! You cannot eat me! I am too tall!" said the giraffes. (Zhi Yi, Xiang Qin & Qiao Yi) |
2015年8月23日星期日
Art Work - Spiral Snake
Date: 21st August 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Art Work - Spiral Snake
As the costume was not ready today, therefore, I chose an art work for the children to work on it today.
I have printed out the outline of a spiral snake onto the cardboard for the children to cut it out accordingly.
Before they cut it out, they needed to decorate their snake. Some of them just added in some simple pattern. Some of them coloured their snake in colourful colour.
Then, once they had decorated their snake, they could cut it out and I helped them to punch a hole on the snake tail. The children learned to tie a string with a yarn string onto the snake's tail.
They could let their snake turned in circle.
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Art Work - Spiral Snake
As the costume was not ready today, therefore, I chose an art work for the children to work on it today.
Then, once they had decorated their snake, they could cut it out and I helped them to punch a hole on the snake tail. The children learned to tie a string with a yarn string onto the snake's tail.
They could let their snake turned in circle.
Acting - The Hungry Lion
Date: 20th August 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Acting - The Hungry Lion
Today, we revised the story again and then, I get the children to choose their character that they wanted to be in.
Basically, we needed a lion, some monkeys, some elephants, some zebras, some crocodiles and some giraffes.
This was just a acting activity for the children to express their talents, here were the list of characters chosen by the children themselves:
lion: Chloe
elephant: Qiao Yi, Sueanne, Xin Yee
crocodile: Lucas, Aiden, Yee Shuen
monkey: Xiao Xuan, Rachel, Shang En, Zi Yue
zebra: Leow Xun, Suzanne, Zhi Yi, Yi Ern,
giraffe: Xiang Qin, Jing Heng, Eugene, Yong Jun
Once the children had chosen their character, I explained the flow of the show to them. As it's quite simple and straight forward, the children could understand it very well.
All the kids were laughing loudly when they were in the act. The children hope they could act in different character, I promised them that we shall do it with costume if I could find any for them next week.
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Acting - The Hungry Lion
Today, we revised the story again and then, I get the children to choose their character that they wanted to be in.
Basically, we needed a lion, some monkeys, some elephants, some zebras, some crocodiles and some giraffes.
This was just a acting activity for the children to express their talents, here were the list of characters chosen by the children themselves:
lion: Chloe
elephant: Qiao Yi, Sueanne, Xin Yee
crocodile: Lucas, Aiden, Yee Shuen
monkey: Xiao Xuan, Rachel, Shang En, Zi Yue
zebra: Leow Xun, Suzanne, Zhi Yi, Yi Ern,
giraffe: Xiang Qin, Jing Heng, Eugene, Yong Jun
Once the children had chosen their character, I explained the flow of the show to them. As it's quite simple and straight forward, the children could understand it very well.
All the kids were laughing loudly when they were in the act. The children hope they could act in different character, I promised them that we shall do it with costume if I could find any for them next week.
Story Sharing & acting
Date: 19th August 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Story Sharing & acting
I wish that the children could come out an idea for the year end performance according to animals. Some of the children came to the front to share their stories such as Zhi Yi, Zi Yue etc.
However, most of their stories were just concentrating on just one or two animals. It couldn't be used to involve the whole class. Suddenly, I got an idea from a book which we read before sometimes ago about a hungry lion who wanted to look for food. The children remembered the story and were quite excited about it.
Then, we discussed on the animals that we could act and then, we also discussed about the sequence of the animals that would appear in our performance.
Due to insufficient time, we have to continue with the discussion and the performance tomorrow.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Story Sharing & acting
I wish that the children could come out an idea for the year end performance according to animals. Some of the children came to the front to share their stories such as Zhi Yi, Zi Yue etc.
However, most of their stories were just concentrating on just one or two animals. It couldn't be used to involve the whole class. Suddenly, I got an idea from a book which we read before sometimes ago about a hungry lion who wanted to look for food. The children remembered the story and were quite excited about it.
Then, we discussed on the animals that we could act and then, we also discussed about the sequence of the animals that would appear in our performance.
Due to insufficient time, we have to continue with the discussion and the performance tomorrow.
Worksheet - Ostrich
Date: 18th August 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animal
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Worksheet - Ostrich
I promised the children that we shall do some art work or worksheet on ostrich. Therefore, I printed out a worksheet for the children to work on it today. They needed to join the dots from 1-50 so that the picture of the ostrich will be visible.
Most of the children could get those numbers joint correctly while some needed guidance where there's a part which confused them.
After that, the children could coloured the pictures according to their memory. However, some of them coloured their ostrich in all sorts of colours instead of just black or brown.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animal
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Worksheet - Ostrich
I promised the children that we shall do some art work or worksheet on ostrich. Therefore, I printed out a worksheet for the children to work on it today. They needed to join the dots from 1-50 so that the picture of the ostrich will be visible.
Most of the children could get those numbers joint correctly while some needed guidance where there's a part which confused them.
After that, the children could coloured the pictures according to their memory. However, some of them coloured their ostrich in all sorts of colours instead of just black or brown.
2015年8月20日星期四
Nile Crocodile
Date: 17th August 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Nile Crocodile
Today, we referred to the encyclopedia and we read about the Nile crocodile. The children were quite excited about crocodile and share a lot of their knowledge about the crocodile such as it has sharp teeth, it eats meat, crocodile looks scary etc.
Then, after that, we have about 15 minutes left, I played a video for the children to learn more about crocodile. However, the video is more about alligator and the comparison with crocodile.
Video #1: Alligators: Animals for Kids
Video #2: The Nile Crocodile - Wildlife BBC
From both the video, the children get to compare between alligators and crocodile such as the length, the colour, the size etc. Zhi Yi even could linked the way Nile Crocodile hunting skills with tiger.
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Nile Crocodile
Today, we referred to the encyclopedia and we read about the Nile crocodile. The children were quite excited about crocodile and share a lot of their knowledge about the crocodile such as it has sharp teeth, it eats meat, crocodile looks scary etc.
Then, after that, we have about 15 minutes left, I played a video for the children to learn more about crocodile. However, the video is more about alligator and the comparison with crocodile.
Video #1: Alligators: Animals for Kids
Video #2: The Nile Crocodile - Wildlife BBC
From both the video, the children get to compare between alligators and crocodile such as the length, the colour, the size etc. Zhi Yi even could linked the way Nile Crocodile hunting skills with tiger.
2015年8月19日星期三
Video Sharing - Snake
Date: 14th August 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Video Sharing - Snake
Today, we revised the facts and details that we had learned about the black mamba and the rock python.
Then, since we have another 25 minutes left, we watched a video about snake:
Video Sharing - Snake: Animals for children
From the video, the children could understand the meaning of cold-blooded animal. Besides that, it also showed how a snake could swallow the eggs even though their head or mouth is not as big as the egg. The children learned the word - swallow. Then, they started to mention how fast their friends were eating during lunch. Some said their friends swallowed their lunch and not chewing it. Wow, the children were fast in linking the idea. That's good!
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Video Sharing - Snake
Today, we revised the facts and details that we had learned about the black mamba and the rock python.
Then, since we have another 25 minutes left, we watched a video about snake:
Video Sharing - Snake: Animals for children
From the video, the children could understand the meaning of cold-blooded animal. Besides that, it also showed how a snake could swallow the eggs even though their head or mouth is not as big as the egg. The children learned the word - swallow. Then, they started to mention how fast their friends were eating during lunch. Some said their friends swallowed their lunch and not chewing it. Wow, the children were fast in linking the idea. That's good!
Snake
Date: 13th August 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Snake
We revised some facts that we learned about monitor lizard before moving to today's topic.
Another reptile that lives in the savannah Africa would be snake. The 2 famous snake would be the black mamba and rock python. The children felt eerie when I mentioned about snake.
We read through some details and facts about these 2 snakes. The children had a lot of share when come to snake, such as their size, their length, their colour, some even mentioned about sea snake as they watched a documentary on sea life this morning with another teacher etc.
Some of them even shared about their experience of encountered with snake at home. I'm not sure if that's a true story that they were telling of just making it up. Anyhow, I do enjoy the sharing session today.
We shall learn more if we could find any other video online for tomorrow's lesson.
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Snake
We revised some facts that we learned about monitor lizard before moving to today's topic.
Another reptile that lives in the savannah Africa would be snake. The 2 famous snake would be the black mamba and rock python. The children felt eerie when I mentioned about snake.
We read through some details and facts about these 2 snakes. The children had a lot of share when come to snake, such as their size, their length, their colour, some even mentioned about sea snake as they watched a documentary on sea life this morning with another teacher etc.
Some of them even shared about their experience of encountered with snake at home. I'm not sure if that's a true story that they were telling of just making it up. Anyhow, I do enjoy the sharing session today.
We shall learn more if we could find any other video online for tomorrow's lesson.
Revision on mammals and reptiles
Date: 12th August 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Revision on mammals and reptiles
I told the children that after reading about mammals and birds, we might move into reptiles. Therefore, today we revised about the features of mammals and reptiles. The children had forgotten some of the important facts about reptiles. They only could remember only that reptiles are cold-blooded.
As we have some 15 minutes left, we read some details about monitor lizard that lives in the savannah.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong
Revision on mammals and reptiles
I told the children that after reading about mammals and birds, we might move into reptiles. Therefore, today we revised about the features of mammals and reptiles. The children had forgotten some of the important facts about reptiles. They only could remember only that reptiles are cold-blooded.
As we have some 15 minutes left, we read some details about monitor lizard that lives in the savannah.
2015年8月17日星期一
Jackals
Date: 11th August 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Jackals
From reading about ostrich, we come across this animal - jackal. We found some readings on jackals in the encyclopedia that we were reading about safari animals.
Therefore, today, we read about jackals. The children learned that jackals are dog-like animals that lives in Africa. They will mate for lifetime. They will be a male and a female with their youngs in a group. They are very protective about their territory. Jackals can be scavengers and also a good hunter. Now, the children could understand the concept of a scavengers and hunter.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Jackals
From reading about ostrich, we come across this animal - jackal. We found some readings on jackals in the encyclopedia that we were reading about safari animals.
Therefore, today, we read about jackals. The children learned that jackals are dog-like animals that lives in Africa. They will mate for lifetime. They will be a male and a female with their youngs in a group. They are very protective about their territory. Jackals can be scavengers and also a good hunter. Now, the children could understand the concept of a scavengers and hunter.
More on Ostrich
Date: 10th August 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
More on Ostrich
We revised the facts and details that we had learned about the ostrich. Today, we read a little further about ostrich of their diet and habitat.
After that, we watched a video that we hope to learn more about this flightless bird.
Video sharing: Ostrich: Animals for Kids
From the video, the children get to see how an ostrich dance for love. On the other hand, they could see clearly of the claws of the ostrich from the video. Besides that, they could understand how an ostrich would defend their young from predator by flapping their wings on the ground to create dust to distract the predators.
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
More on Ostrich
We revised the facts and details that we had learned about the ostrich. Today, we read a little further about ostrich of their diet and habitat.
After that, we watched a video that we hope to learn more about this flightless bird.
Video sharing: Ostrich: Animals for Kids
From the video, the children get to see how an ostrich dance for love. On the other hand, they could see clearly of the claws of the ostrich from the video. Besides that, they could understand how an ostrich would defend their young from predator by flapping their wings on the ground to create dust to distract the predators.
Ostrich
Date: 7th August 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Ostrich
As we were reading the book on safari animals, I missed out the ostrich. Therefore, today, we used the encyclopedia to learn about ostrich.
Here were some facts about ostrich:
- ostrich is a flightless bird
- it is the largest bird with strong legs
- it only have 2 legs with a claws on each
- ostrich can run very fast, it can run up to the speed of 65-70km/hr
- ostrich lays eggs,
- male ostrich: black feathers, female/young male ostrich: brown greyish feathers
- male ostrich will dance to attract the attention of the female
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Ostrich
As we were reading the book on safari animals, I missed out the ostrich. Therefore, today, we used the encyclopedia to learn about ostrich.
Here were some facts about ostrich:
- ostrich is a flightless bird
- it is the largest bird with strong legs
- it only have 2 legs with a claws on each
- ostrich can run very fast, it can run up to the speed of 65-70km/hr
- ostrich lays eggs,
- male ostrich: black feathers, female/young male ostrich: brown greyish feathers
- male ostrich will dance to attract the attention of the female
Art and Craft - Tiger Art (palm printing) - part IV
Date: 6th August 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger Art (palm printing) - part IV
Most of the children didn't get to complete their art work yesterday after coming back from the garden. Therefore, I let them continue with their art work today.
Finally, I could take pictures of some of their final work:
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger Art (palm printing) - part IV
Most of the children didn't get to complete their art work yesterday after coming back from the garden. Therefore, I let them continue with their art work today.
Finally, I could take pictures of some of their final work:
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| Yee Shuen |
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| Xiang Qin |
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| Sueanne Low |
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| Chloe Lee |
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| Qiao Yi |
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| Rachel Lim |
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| Xiao Xuan |
2015年8月6日星期四
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - part III
Date: 5th August 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - part III
Only Chloe and Xin Yee brought some grass from home. It's not enough for every one of them to share the grass. Somehow, some of the grass has started to grow at the backyard of the school, therefore, I brought the children out to collect some grass from there.
Then, after that, the children started to paste the grass onto their art work.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - part III
Only Chloe and Xin Yee brought some grass from home. It's not enough for every one of them to share the grass. Somehow, some of the grass has started to grow at the backyard of the school, therefore, I brought the children out to collect some grass from there.
Then, after that, the children started to paste the grass onto their art work.
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - Part II
Date: 3rd August 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - Part II
The children had done their palm printing on last Friday. Then, today, I wanted the children to add on some details for their tiger art. Some of the children said that it doesn't look like a tiger. I hinted to them that something needed to be added to their pictures such as stripes, the face of a tiger, the tail etc.
Some of them could add in the details on their own while some will need to refer to the books. No pictures were taken during the activity as the children were asking for guidance.
On the other hand, I suggested that they could collect some grass from home (the grass in the school were trimmed on last Friday) so that they could add in to their art work as though the tiger is walking among the grass.
Hopefully, someone will bring some grass this week so that we could work on it.
I will be following another two classes on a field trip to the police museum and a visit to the Fire Station, therefore, there will be no blog update for 4th August 2015.
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft - Tiger (palm printing) - Part II
The children had done their palm printing on last Friday. Then, today, I wanted the children to add on some details for their tiger art. Some of the children said that it doesn't look like a tiger. I hinted to them that something needed to be added to their pictures such as stripes, the face of a tiger, the tail etc.
Some of them could add in the details on their own while some will need to refer to the books. No pictures were taken during the activity as the children were asking for guidance.
On the other hand, I suggested that they could collect some grass from home (the grass in the school were trimmed on last Friday) so that they could add in to their art work as though the tiger is walking among the grass.
Hopefully, someone will bring some grass this week so that we could work on it.
I will be following another two classes on a field trip to the police museum and a visit to the Fire Station, therefore, there will be no blog update for 4th August 2015.
2015年8月5日星期三
Art and Craft: Tiger (palm printing)
Date: 31st July 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft: Tiger (palm printing)
Today, I mixed the colour of yellow and red to get the colour of orange. However, different portion of colours would turn out different tones of orange. Some of the children said that the orange looked more of a dark red. I guess, not enough of yellow.
Anyhow, the children still carried on with their palm printing on a piece of paper. In order to get all the work done before letting the children off, I didn't get the chance to take any pictures for this activity.
Hopefully I will have some pictures for the extension of this activity next week.
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Art and Craft: Tiger (palm printing)
Today, I mixed the colour of yellow and red to get the colour of orange. However, different portion of colours would turn out different tones of orange. Some of the children said that the orange looked more of a dark red. I guess, not enough of yellow.
Anyhow, the children still carried on with their palm printing on a piece of paper. In order to get all the work done before letting the children off, I didn't get the chance to take any pictures for this activity.
Hopefully I will have some pictures for the extension of this activity next week.
Different types of hunting and tiger
Date: 30th July 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Different types of hunting and tiger
Today, we focused on the different types of hunting that the tiger would used. Basically there were 3 of it,
- walking closer and closer towards its prey
- giving an ambush (waiting for the prey to come closer)
- attacking animals by the water side (tiger is not afraid of water)
We also learned that the cubs will stay with their mother tiger for about 18 months before leaving the group. There will be a ceremony for it. The strongest tiger will leave the group by sucking the mum's nibbles for the last time. I find the children seems to look a little sad when they heard that the cubs are leaving the family. Therefore, I quickly went through it and move on to another part of the encyclopedia.
The children also noticed that the tiger will scratch the tree trunk. They asked what the tiger is doing. There were a few ways for the tiger to mark their territory.
- to pee on a spot, usually on the tree
- to wipe its saliva onto the tree
- to leave scratch marks on the tree bark
The children were quite amused when they learned that tiger pee at the tree. I get them to imagine what dogs love to do. Then, they seems to understand it. Two tigers will defend their territory no matter how.
There also introduced Siberian Tiger in the book which it only looked a little different on their face. They look much bulkier.
Tomorrow we shall carry out the art and craft for tiger.
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Different types of hunting and tiger
Today, we focused on the different types of hunting that the tiger would used. Basically there were 3 of it,
- walking closer and closer towards its prey
- giving an ambush (waiting for the prey to come closer)
- attacking animals by the water side (tiger is not afraid of water)
We also learned that the cubs will stay with their mother tiger for about 18 months before leaving the group. There will be a ceremony for it. The strongest tiger will leave the group by sucking the mum's nibbles for the last time. I find the children seems to look a little sad when they heard that the cubs are leaving the family. Therefore, I quickly went through it and move on to another part of the encyclopedia.
The children also noticed that the tiger will scratch the tree trunk. They asked what the tiger is doing. There were a few ways for the tiger to mark their territory.
- to pee on a spot, usually on the tree
- to wipe its saliva onto the tree
- to leave scratch marks on the tree bark
The children were quite amused when they learned that tiger pee at the tree. I get them to imagine what dogs love to do. Then, they seems to understand it. Two tigers will defend their territory no matter how.
There also introduced Siberian Tiger in the book which it only looked a little different on their face. They look much bulkier.
Tomorrow we shall carry out the art and craft for tiger.
More on Tigers
Date: 29th July 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
More on Tigers
Before we move in further about tiger, I played them a video today. Hopefully by watching it, the children could understand the tiger more.
Video Sharing: Bengal Tiger in HD
From the video, the children were amazed to learn that tiger could swim. The tiger is nearly invisible among the tall grass with its stripes on their body. Besides that, the children also noticed that tiger is quite a big animal and could leap very far.
After the video, we went back to class to continue with our encyclopedia about tiger. In the book, it mentioned that tiger loves bathing in the water. Now, the children agreed with that. They also learned that tiger is a very strong animal which it could kill a bigger size prey.
I told the children that we shall do an art work on tiger if possible by this week either on Thursday or Friday.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
More on Tigers
Before we move in further about tiger, I played them a video today. Hopefully by watching it, the children could understand the tiger more.
Video Sharing: Bengal Tiger in HD
From the video, the children were amazed to learn that tiger could swim. The tiger is nearly invisible among the tall grass with its stripes on their body. Besides that, the children also noticed that tiger is quite a big animal and could leap very far.
After the video, we went back to class to continue with our encyclopedia about tiger. In the book, it mentioned that tiger loves bathing in the water. Now, the children agreed with that. They also learned that tiger is a very strong animal which it could kill a bigger size prey.
I told the children that we shall do an art work on tiger if possible by this week either on Thursday or Friday.
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