The story of the Nian Monster

Date: 20th January 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

The story of the Nian Monster

The children were told about the Nian monster by their Mandarin teacher in the morning. However, I think it would be different if they listen to the story in English. I found a simple version of the story for the children to watch.

Video watching: The Story of Nian - A Chinese New Year story

After watching it, the children would start to describe the content of the story in English. At least they try. Since they saw the drawing of the Nian monster in the story, I requested the children to draw it out again on the board to see if they could notice the details of the Nian monster.

Here were some pictures taken during the activity:

Leow Xun drew the horn on the Nian monster

Sueanne added in the eyes. 

Mei Jia drew a smiley mouth for it.

Jia Mao added in some teeth.

Suzanne added in the body for it. 

Lik Shin added in the hands for the Nian monster.

Deshayne added in the ears for it.

Rachel added in the tail.

Leow Xun said have to draw some scale on its body.

Sueanne added in some legs for it.

Lucas said have to draw a stomach for it.

This is the Nian monster by Pomegranate class.

After the children had drawn the picture on the whiteboard, I gave each of them a piece of A4 paper to draw the Nian monster that they have just seen from the video or the Nian monster that they think it should look like.

Here are some pictures by the children:

Deshayne

Leow Xun

Lik Shin

Rachel

Sueanne

Suzanne

Jia Mao

Mei Jia