2015年4月8日星期三

Movie - Chef (part II)

Date: 8th April 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Movie - Chef (part II)

Today, we continue with the movie.

Carl Casper, the chef, was being criticized by a food critic - Ramsey Michel on his food. He got irritated and got into a fight with his boss, Mr Riva, the restaurant owner. Due to the pressure from the media such as the internet, Carl decided to look for an alternative to work on his career - food truck business which he doesn't really agree from the very beginning.

Together with his son, Percy, they all flew to Miami to meet up with his ex-wife, Inez, ex-husband to discuss about the food truck business.

We stopped at the point where they started to clean up the food truck. We shall continue with it tomorrow.

2015年4月7日星期二

Movie - Chef

Date: 7th April 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Movie - Chef

Today, I shared a movie with the children - Chef.



Story plot:-
It's about a chef who loses his job at a restaurant and started a food truck business in a effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piercing back together his estranged family.

The children commented that the food in the movie looks delicious We only managed to watch for about 20 minutes, we shall continue with the movie tomorrow.


2015年4月6日星期一

Cook

Date: 6th April 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Cook

Before we moved in to our new sub topic - cook, Suzanne wanted to share her personal details with her fellow classmates. Then, after that, we went through all the vocabulary that we had done so far.



Some of the children mentioned that a person who cooks is a cooker. Therefore, I take this opportunity to explain what the difference between a cook and a cooker.

Teacher: If you were a cook, what would you like to cook?
Aiden: burger
Yi Ern: french fries
Zi Yue: mee sua soup
Lucas:
Leow Xun: sushi
Chloe: nugget
Suzanne: pizza
Xiao Xuan: nugget
Sueanne: pizza
Xiang Qin: pizza
Zhi Yi: Bah Kut Teh
Yee Shuen: fried chicken
Qiao Yi: chicken
Devon: burger
Shang En: pizza
Xin Yee: spagetti
Jing Heng: nugget
Yong Jun: burger

Lastly, the children used 10 minutes to continue with their clothes designing that they had not completed for the past few days before we call it a day.

2015年4月5日星期日

Sketches & Runway

Date: 3rd April 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sketches & Runway

Today, I shared a video clip of how a clothes designer draws their design. The children find it quite interesting.

Video #1: Easy fashion design drawing

Then, after that, I asked the children to tell me how a clothes designer could share his or her new design with other people. Some said to put it on the wall, some said to take a picture of it etc. None of them mentioned about fashion show. Therefore, I played another video to show them the way of a clothes designer would share his or her design with the public.

Video #2:Levi's Kids Fashion Show

Then, the children continued with their own clothes designing picture. Some of them had completed it by today while some still have quite a lot of touch up.


2015年4月2日星期四

We are clothes designer

Date: 2nd April 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

We are clothes designer

I shared a video of a clothes designer with the children before moving into another activity today.

Video: - A day in a life of a clothes designer

Today, I distributed the drawings of different type of clothing for the children to work on it. It might take them a while. I get the children to tell me the name of clothes they had chosen before walking away with the drawings.

Most of them did some simple drawing today and they shall continue with it tomorrow.

Mr Peabody's Apples

Date: 1st April 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Mr Peabody's Apples

There was an issue going on when I stepped into the class today. A boy was telling me that there's no more toilet paper while he was still sitting on the toilet bowl as I stepped into the class. Therefore, I went to get him a roll of tissue. As I stepped in back to the class, he was already out of the toilet, then I asked if he had cleaned himself, he said yes. However, one of his friend suddenly started to accuse him of not cleaning himself and spread the rumours around until both of them got into an argument. 

Suddenly I thought of a book that I wish to share with the children now. I wanted to share it during our sub-topic - teacher but didn't get a chance to do so. 




The story is as followed (adapted from Amazon.com):-
"Mr. Peabodyís Apples takes place in 1949 in Happville, USA. Mr. Peabody is the beloved elementary school teacher and baseball coach, who one day finds himself ostracized when rumors spread through the small town. Mr. Peabody silences the gossip with an unforgettable and poignant lesson about how we must choose our words carefully to avoid causing harm to others.
Madonna dedicates Mr. Peabody's Apples to teachers everywhere." 

The children were shocked when I came to the part where Mr Peabody wanted Tommy to pick up all the feathers that had been blown away. The children themselves shocked their head and said it's impossible. This suddenly makes them realize the harm that had been done cannot be mended again. Hopefully with the story, the children could always be more cautious of the words that they say or use in the future. 

We left a little time before we called it a day, the children chose the type of clothes that they wanted to design. As a result, I need to prepare 6 T-shirt drawings, 9 dress drawings and 3 long pants drawings for our next lesson. 

Clothes Designer

Date: 31st March 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Clothes Designer

The children had an argument today as some of them wanted to continue with 'occupations' and some wanted to change topic. Therefore, after I gave the explanation and suggestion, the children voted for it. Finally, most of the children decided to stay with the current topic and they even added on some other occupations such as make-up artist, beautician and cook.

From our previous list that we had discussed, after learning about 'teacher', we shall move on to 'clothes designer'.

Before getting into more details, today, we learn about the names of clothes such as T-shirt, dress, shorts, trousers, skirt etc.

We shall do more about it this week.