Art & Craft - The Bus (water paint)

Date: 6^th March 2013

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Art & Craft – Bus (water paint)

Just right before we start our art and craft session, I found another 2 songs about bus to share with the children. The first song is “Down at the bus stop”. It is to be sung with the tune of “Down by the station”. Since the children knew the song rhythms, so it’s much easier for them to follow this time. The lyrics are as followed:

Down at the bus stop

Early in the morning

See the little children

Lined up in a row

See the yellow school bus

Picked up all the children

Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom,

Off they go. 

I also shared another song with the children – “We’re riding on the bus”. This song is sung with the tune of “If you are happy and you know it”.

The lyrics of the song are as followed:

Oh, we’re riding on the bus, on the bus

Oh, we’re riding on the bus, on the bus

Oh, we’re riding on the bus,

Come and ride along with us,

Oh, we’re riding on the bus, on the bus.

When I asked the children to substitute the action with words like singing or dancing, they could come out words like sleeping, eating, sitting. This is a good practice for more action words for the children in the future.

After that, we started off with our water painting of the wheels track. The children painted the wheels of the toy vehicles with the 3 colours (red, blue and green) that I had prepared and they traced the track on the manila card. Everyone was so excited and can’t wait for their turns. We shall decorate the painting with our bus tomorrow.

Art & Craft - The Bus (part II)

Date: 5^th March 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:30pm- 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Art and Craft – The Bus (part II)

There were some children were not around when I was sharing the story yesterday – Percy Got Stuck. So I read the story to them again today. Then the children also help to recall back what had happened to Percy.

After that, we continued with the art and craft – colouring the bus. Most of the children had completed their colouring part and started to cut the shape of the bus out. I just drew a outer line for the children to follow the lines to cut out their bus in a better shape.

Tomorrow we shall do the water colour painting of the wheels of the vehicles. So the children were told to wear old clothes to avoid paint on their pretty shirt or dress. Besides that, the children can also bring any of their toy vehicles for the painting as long as the toy can be wash in water. 

Art & Craft - Bus

Date: 4^th March 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Art & Craft – Bus

I) Reading session – Percy Got Stuck

We started off the day with a reading session – Percy Got Stuck. This a story adapted from the Thomas & friends TV series. The story was about Percy, a green train, who got bored with carrying trucks and wanted to exchange duty with Thomas, a blue train, who had sent a group of children to the beach. However, the weather started to turn bad as a storm was about to begin but Percy promised to bring the children home safely. Eventually Percy got stuck at the river when the water started to rise and the fire was out. Yet, when the engine managed to turn back on, Percy sent all the children safely back to the station. A promise is a promise.

II) Art & Craft 

Today, I had prepared a pre-drawn picture of a bus. The children needs to colour it according to their choice and cut out the shape of the bus for our later art and craft. Most of the children managed to complete the colouring but not cutting it out.

So tomorrow we shall continue with some of the colouring and cutting out of the shape of the bus. 

Role Play - Buying Bus Ticket (part II)

Date: 1^st March 2013

Day: Friday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Role Play - Buying the bus ticket (part II)

We did a role play today. Each round, I selected 2 children to be the bus ticket seller and other children will queue up to buy ticket from them. Before we started the role play, I practice the dialogue with them.

Bus ticket seller: Can I help you?

Ticket buyer: Yes, I want to buy a bus ticket.

Bus ticket seller: Where do you want to go?

Ticket buyer: I want to go to Legoland

Bus ticket seller: The bus is at 8 o’clock. Is it alright with you?

Ticket buyer: Yes.

Bus ticket seller: It is RM10.

(Then the buyer will get the ticket and find their seats according to the ticket.)

This role play is to practice the fluency of the language by both of the buyer and seller. There’s a lot of time where the children will seek for help especially when the conversation was unable to continue. We had this role play for 3 rounds. The children enjoyed selling and buying the tickets.

Jia Jia: Can I help you?

Phoeon: The bus is at 8 o'clock

Jun Qian: Where do you want to go?

Ivy: It's RM10.

Jun Qian: I want to go to Legoland.

Yu Xi: Can I help you?

Buying the bus ticket (part I)

Date: 27^th February 2013

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Buying the bus ticket (part I)

We sang the song, “Down by the station” again during circle time. This time round, the children can somehow follow the lyrics much better. We learn another transportation song today: I’m driving in my CAR.

The lyrics are as followed:

Look at me, oh can’t you see,

I’m driving in my CAR

C-A-R (beep, beep)

C-A-R (beep, beep)

C-A-R (beep, beep)

I’m driving in my car.

(sing in the tune of “Bingo”)

I changed the word “car” in the song to “van” & “bus”. Many of the children wanted to change the words to fire engine, ambulance or even police car but can’t. This is because we need to find either a 3 letters word or 5 letters word. Wei Lok suggested we changed it to “truck” then we sang with it. It sounds good even though we can’t put in the “beep beep”. Then Derek suggested we changed to “train”, Bee Chien suggested “crane” and Yi Han suggested “buggy”. We all sang it with all the words given. It became a very creative song.

Then we started our bus ticket game. After the children had placed their chair according to the setting of a bus, I explained to them that we need to buy a bus ticket to get up a bus. I became the bus ticket seller to demonstrate to them how to buy a ticket. Each of them queue up patiently to wait for their turn. 

Teacher: Can I help you?

Children: I want to buy a bus ticket.

Teacher: Where do you want to go?

Children: I want to go to Legoland.

Teacher: The bus is at 8 o’clock. Is that alright with you?

The children nod their head and I handed them a ticket. Then they sat down accordingly to the shape attached on the seat.

The activities will be continued on Friday. The children will take turns to become the bus ticket seller and a customer.

Kindly be informed that there will be no update of blog tomorrow as the children will be visiting to the zoo.

Bus Ticket Making

Date: 26^th February 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Bus Ticket Making

We sang a song “Down by the Station” during circle time. 

The lyrics are as followed:

Down by the station

Early in the morning

See the little puffer bellies, All in a row

See the engine driver

Pull the little handle

Chug, chug, toot, toot, off we go

Then, we continued with our bus ticket designing from yesterday. I returned back all the shapes that the children had drawn on the colour paper. They have to cut the shapes out. Most of them can do it except for some who need help in cutting the shape accordingly. Then the children pasted the shapes in pattern on a piece of black colour paper. Each child was given 2 pieces of black paper. One would be the bus ticket and one would be the seat number. Once the children were done with the pasting, we sat down and discuss how the seats of the bus would look like. I drew the picture of the bus seat on the board for the children to follow.

Then I get all the children to take a chair and place it according to the picture. Then the children pasted one of their seat number on the chair and gave me the other copy of it. Due to lack of time, the children only managed to paste all the seat numbers and unable to play it today.

So our activities tomorrow would be a role play of getting on the bus. I believe it would be fun for them.

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.