Helicopter & Aeroplane

Date: 16^th May 2013

Day: Thursday

Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Happy, happy Transportation – Helicopter & Aeroplane

Kwan Ming brought a small little book about “Plane” where he would like to share with his friend. The content of the book includes counting and some vocabulary that I can teach the children.

The added vocabularies are

taking off

landing

airport

Story Sharing – We Love Hattie

Hattie is the helicopter. His pilot, Roy, flies to Star Island to pick up some roses for the visitors. When Hattie arrived at the airport, the Group Captain and his 2 grandchildren, Posy and Tim, were at the airport too. Tim wanted to take a ride in an aeroplane. The Captain said the aeroplane needs a lot of fuel and space to take off. Then he saw Hattie and suggested to ride on Hattie instead. So Roy, the pilot, took them for a ride around Star Island before heading back to the airport.

Video Clip Sharing

I found a video clip showing how a Boeing 787 taking off and landing. 

I also found another video clip about the taking off and landing of a helicopter. 

From these 2 video clips, the children came to a conclusion that an aeroplane needs a very big space to take off while a helicopter can just take off at an empty land.

We shall discuss more about the different between an aeroplane and helicopter tomorrow. Hopefully the children could learn more about these 2 air transportation.