Story Book Reading - The Numberly

Date: 12th January 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
(4:00-5:00 pm ~Wushu Class)
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Story Book Reading - The Numberly

As the Wushu class ended around 5pm today, I believe that the children would be quite tired after that class. Therefore, I picked a book that is not related to our theme. I consider it as a leisure reading session.

This is an interesting book about numbers and alphabets. The name of the book is - The Numberlys by William Joyce & Christina Ellis.

The children enjoyed the pages from grey and dull to colourful and vibrant. They even rejoiced with the characters in the story when they noticed the colourful pages of it. How wonderful kids we have!

Thank you to some of those who had brought in angpao packets from home. I have some other programmes to introduce to the children before we lay our hands on those angpao packets. Stay tuned!

Worksheet - Chinese Zodiac (part II)

Date: 11th January 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Worksheet - Chinese Zodiac (part II)

There were 3 children who have not done their worksheet on last Friday. Therefore, I used 15 minutes to guide them to complete the worksheet while others coloured the pictures that they pasted on their worksheet.

After that, we watched a video about "The Race of the Chinese Zodiac". Hopefully through the video, the children could understand the sequence of the Chinese Zodiac.

Video : The Great Race Chinese Zodiac

Worksheet - Chinese Zodiac

Date: 8th January 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Worksheet - Chinese Zodiac

The worksheet that I have designed is for the children to match the picture with the words given. I have also did a big poster of the pictures with the words for those who needed reference. Most of the 6 years old could complete the worksheet on their own while I have to assist most of the 5 years old children to get it done properly.

As I was busy guiding the groups of children, therefore, no pictures were taken today.

Discussion on Book about Chinese New Year

Date: 7th January 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Discussion on Book about Chinese New Year

My initial plan is to have a discussion with the children to create a book of Chinese Zodiac only. The children agreed. However, after the discussion, an idea pop up. Instead of just doing Chinese Zodiac, I can also add in details about Chinese New Year such as custom and tradition so that the children could do more observation about the changes and decorations of their surroundings and the meaning of it.

I shall prepare some worksheet of Chinese Zodiac for the children to work on it tomorrow.

The 12 Chinese Zodiac Symbol

Date: 6th January 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

The 12 Chinese Zodiac Symbol

In the Chinese custom, every year will be represented by one animal from the Chinese Zodiac Symbol. Today, we went through the names and the sequence of the Chinese Zodiac Symbol. Leow Xun managed to recall the sequence and help us to name it out in Mandarin. From there, I wrote all them in English.

There are 2 groups of children in this class, 6 years old and 5 years old. Their Chinese Zodiac Symbol is different. Therefore, we calculated the 6 years old from year 2016 which is the Monkey year. We moved backward until the year of Tiger. We did the same for 5 years old children when it ended in the year of Rabbit.

Here's the record that we wrote on the board.

Memory of Chinese New Year (drawing)

Date: 5th January 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
(4:00-5:00pm - Wushu Class)
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Memory of Chinese New Year (drawing)

Every Tuesday, the children will have wushu class from 4:00-5:00pm. As a result, our thematic class will only have about 30 minutes left. Today, I chose to let the children to do some drawing. The theme for the drawing would be their memory of Chinese New Year.

Most of the children could recall the things that they saw during Chinese New Year and drew it out on the paper. However, some of them were stuck. Hopefully, with the introduction of Chinese New Year this time, they could start to observe more about this festive season.

Brand New Year 2016

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

Brand New Year 2016

Welcome back!! It's a brand new year of 2016. This year, there are about 16 of them. Each age group ( 5 & 6 years old) has about 8 children. I hope they will enjoy the English thematic class.

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. As half of the class is brand new, therefore, I chose a familiar topic for them to start off with.

We had some brainstorming session on what they know or remember about Chinese New Year.

Teacher: Can you share anything that you remember about Chinese New Year?
Leow Xun: I went to 表姑 (aunt) house.
Sueanne: I go to my aunt's house and eat.
Zi Yue: I go to play and swimming. I go to my grandma's house.
Deshayne: I went to my uncle's house. To blow bubbles and eat.

Besides that, I also hinted to them about the colours that they will see during Chinese New Year. Some of them gave some examples of things in red such as red packets, firecrackers, red shirt, red skirt etc.

Parents could prepare some old or used red angpao packets for your children to bring to school as materials for Chinese New Year art work. We shall need it by early next week.