I know how a truck looks like

Date: 27^th March 2013

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – I know how does a truck looks like!

Story sharing – “Thomas and a Dragon”

This story is about Thomas (a train) going to the harbour to get a special load which is a paper dragon for the carnival. On the other side, Percy (a train) was stuck at the siding before the station due to some technical problem with the line. Percy was forced to stay over night there and got a shock when he saw the dragon being pushed passed him. He didn’t dare to look at it. Later in the morning when he saw Thomas, he told Thomas how frightened he was to see the dragon. Thomas didn’t laugh at him but praising him that he is brave to tell out what he is scared of. The story is to encourage children to tell out when they are afraid of something and not to keep to themselves. 

Today Derek brought a tow truck. During circle time, I got the children to share about what they know about a tow truck.

Teacher: Do you know what vehicles is this?

Children: Yes. Tow truck.

Teacher: You are right. It’s a tow truck. What does a tow truck do?

Children: Tow car.

Teacher: Why do we need to call a tow truck to tow our car?

Children: Car spoilt already.

Teacher: Yes. When our car is spoilt, we need to call a tow truck to drive us back to the workshop.

Children: Mcqueen’s friend is a tow truck. (children were referring to the character in the movie – “The Cars”. )

Teacher: What’s the name of the tow truck then?

Children: Mater. (Wow, they know! Means that they do listen to the conversation, that’s a good sign!)

I also gave other example of trucks that we can see on the road such as garbage truck, trucks that carries heavy loads etc.

Then I got the children to come out with a look of the truck by using their toys or blocks. At first, everyone is looking for a truck. Then later, I hinted them that I want them to build a truck or show how does a truck looks like. Then only they started to look for blocks and lego for wheels. This is a picture of the truck that the children made: 

Not bad, it’s very creative. Then I let the children played the caboose game for 15 minutes before we called it a day.