Fire Fighter

Date: 29th January 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Fire Fighter

As all the children had settled down, I asked if they wanted to share any thoughts about the movie - Billy Elliot that they had watched for the past three days. Then suddenly, a few of them started to stand up and spin like Billy did in the movie. Chloe mentioned about a part where Billy and his father were sitting on the fence and Billy pushed his father down. Then Billy also fell on his father and both of them laughed. Chloe said that scene is very funny.

By using this chance, I introduced a few vocabularies to the children. The vocabularies were as followed:

ballet dancer, tutu dress, spin, veterinarian, sick

I noticed the children were still playing with the doctor set toys during their corner time. Therefore, I shall just leave it for them to explore it themselves.

Today, we moved in to other occupations - fire fighter. The children learned a little about fire fighter when the Mandarin's teacher teaches them about the red fire engine in the morning. Therefore, I get the children to tell me what a fire fighter does.

Teacher: What does a fire fighter do?
Zhi Yi: push water to fire
Devon: Help the man to pour water to the fire.
Chloe: People got fire, fire fighter will go.
Devon: Take the cat or dog from the tree.
Sueanne: Catch snake. (she explained the situation in Mandarin)

Then, I briefly explained the job about fire fighter by referring to a book about the brave fire fighter (the book is in Mandarin, I did some translation on it).