Who has gone with the wind?

Date: 30^th May 2013

Day: Thursday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Colours – Who has gone with the wind?

Today, we started off with colours. We started off with the colours they know from the rainbow.

Teacher: How many colours are there in the rainbow?

Children: Seven.

Teacher: Great! Can you name all the colours?

Children: Yes. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and …purple. (The children were laughing and not know why got 2 purple there.)

Teacher: The last two colours are Indigo and Violet. (Coincidently there’s a picture of a rainbow coloured by the previous class children on the wall. So I immediately point to the colours and get them to read it out. When we reached to indigo and violet, Jia Jia said it looked like brown. )

I guess we shall find out what’s that indigo and violet really looks like in the future.

Then we played a game called “Who has gone with the wind?” This is adapted from a game where kids usually played in Mandarin. So before we started with the game, I asked the children to observe the colours they have on their T-shirt and shorts then later looked at their friends’.

This is how we start:

Teacher: Gone with the wind.

Children: Who has gone with the wind?

Teacher: The person who has a red colour on his body.

(Then those children who had red on either their T-shirt or short, they have to stand up and switched their seats with their friends. At first, the children took a while to look at their T-shirt or shorts but later on, they started to observe their friends’ and tell them to move of they didn’t. )

We are ready!

Oh, I'm in red! I have gone with the wind. 

White! I have to move.

Storybook sharing – Colour My World

Yu Xi brought this book to share with her classmates. It’s a book by Barney sharing her day of colours with the children. In the book, it introduced red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.