Modes of Transportation - Water Paint

Date: 9^th April 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, Happy Transportation – Water Painting of the Mode of Transportation

After the round of revision yesterday, we continued with the mode of transportation today. As for the art and craft part, I divided the class into 3 categories, land transportation, water transportation and air transportation. The purpose of the water painting today is to paint the background of all those modes.

The children were divided as followed:

land transportation	Kern Ee, Yu Xin, Yi Jie, Wei Lok
water transportation	Yu Xi, Jia Jia, Phoeon, Jun Qian, Jiun Jie
air transportation	Kwan Ming, Wei Ni, Bee Chien, Yi Han, Derek

Each group will have to discuss of what to have in their mode of transportation. They were given about few minutes to do group discussion.

Wei Lok’s group was going to colour the background for land transportation. They decided to draw road and grass. They also managed to get to do the water paint today.

Kwan Ming’s group was discussing about the background for the sky. At first, they could work together to draw the sky. Somehow later, Yi Han started to dominate the drawing and all of the group members left her drawing alone. However, when they come to the water painting part, all of them work together again. They chose blue and yellow for the sky and the sun. Unfortunately, due to the clumsiness of the children, they accidentally mixed the colour of blue and yellow and it turned out to be green. Even though they were unhappy with the outcome of it yet, they learned the mixture of colours. I believe they will be more careful in the future.

Yu Xi’s group had the biggest argument of what to draw. I hinted to them that the whole paper is water. They are allowed to add in creatures in the sea. However, it took them quite long to decide what to draw and the argument continues. I strongly believe that children learn a lot from disagreement and managed to find a way to solve it. Unfortunately, they took up too much time today and couldn’t start with the water painting today. They shall do it tomorrow.