Giraffe Art with egg shells (part II)

Date: 1st July 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Giraffe Art with egg shells (part II)

The children had completed most of their giraffe with egg shells. Some of them said the picture looked very dull. Therefore, I passed the picture back to them and they could add in details for their giraffe.

Here were some of the completed works done by the children:

Suzanne

Shang En

Yi Ern

Zhi Yi

Chloe

Sueanne

Leow Xun

Aiden

Rachel

Yee Shuen

Xiang Qin

Qiao Yi

Jing Heng

Xiao Xuan

Lucas

Eugene

Xin Yee

Devon

Zi Yue

Yong Jun

Giraffe Art with egg shells

Date: 30th June 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Giraffe Art with egg shells

I had drawn an outline of a giraffe on the drawing paper for each one in the class. With the egg shells that the children brought, they have to paste it onto the body of the giraffe to make it looked likes those orangey brown spots.

Here were some pictures taken during the activity:

Here were some of the work done by the children:

Learn more about Giraffe

Date: 29th June 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Learn more about Giraffe

 I get the children to spell the word "giraffe" before we start our lesson for today. Then, I get them to tell me what they remember about giraffe that we read about last Friday.

These were their sharing about giraffe:

Yi Ern: Tongue very sticky.
Aiden: The neck is so long.
Qiao Yi: The leg is so long.
Devon: It has a tail.
Xiang Qin: It eats leaves.
Jing Heng: It wants to drink water, it has to open its front leg.
Xin Yee: Giraffe is very tall.

After that, I shared a video about giraffe with the children.

Video Sharing: Giraffe: Animals for Children

From the video, the children finally cleared up their doubts about the name of pattern that they see on a giraffe. It's called spots as well. It's orangey brown spot.

We have another 20 minutes more before we called it a day. Therefore, I divided the class into 2 big groups. Each group I gave them a box of toys. Their task is to form a giraffe together by using all the toys they have. They have to work together. Even though some of them started to get into argument. However, the situation got a little better after one or two members in the group gave in.

Finally, both group managed to form a big giraffe with their toys.

Giraffe

Date: 26th June 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Giraffe

Today, we moved on to another zoo animals - giraffe. From the information we read from the book, it stated that giraffe is the tallest animal in the world. It's about as tall as a two storey house. I get the children to look outside of their classroom, there are some single storey house and a two storey house. They observed the house and noticed the different in the height. Hopefully, this will make them understand how tall a giraffe is.

The children also noticed that here's some pattern on the body of the giraffe. I asked the children for ideas on how to do an art work on giraffe. They gave quite some but lastly, we decided to try to use egg shells to make the pattern on the giraffe body.

Children were asked to collect egg shells from home.

Since we have about 20 minutes left, we continued with Zi Yue's VCD on Barney going to the zoo.

Why we need to protect elephants?

Date: 25th June 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Zoo Animals
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Why we need to protect elephants?

We had a discussion about protecting elephants. I explained that people hunt for the elephant for their tusk to make into all sorts of accessories.

At first, the children were quite excited sharing their thoughts about killing the elephant. I have to remind them that we should not be thinking of killing the elephant just because of its tusk. After a few of them who shared their thoughts, finally, I have to make an example of them as elephants and they have to imagine seeing other adult elephants being killed. Then, only they realised that killing is not supposed to be encourage here.

Zi Yue brought a VCD on Barney- Going to the Zoo. I played the VCD for only about 25 minutes today. The children got excited when they saw animals that they could name it out. We shall continued with the VCD tomorrow if we have the time for it.