Earth Day on 22nd April

Date: 17th April 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Earth Day on 22nd April 

Next Wednesday, it's Earth Day. The school will organise a trip to the recycling centre to teach the children about loving the Earth.

Therefore, today, we went through some basic information about why we needed to plant trees and the important of growing trees on earth.

Teacher: Why do we need to plant trees?
Children: So no flood.
Teacher: How can the trees help to prevent flood?
Children: Don't know....we learn it in our Mandarin class in the morning....

So I have to explain the usage of a tree and how a tree grows. I find it this year, the children managed to share more information compare to them when they were five years old. I guess they are more mature this year with this topic which we always brought it around April.

Besides Earth Day, 23rd April is the World Book Day. This time, I suggested that we also do a book. It can either be a big book or a small book. The children wanted a big book instead of a small one. I suggested that we use our theme to do a big book of it. They agreed.

After a round of voting, the children decided that this would be their title - The Occupations that I Learned.

Then, we summarized the occupations that we had done so far. After some consideration, I listed about 6 of them for the children to work on it - doctor, fire fighter, chef, teacher, veterinarian and clothes designer. The children group themselves in 6 groups and draw lots.

Next week, we shall work on our big book project.