Book Sharing - The Super Smelly Alien

Date: 22nd August 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Book Sharing - The Super Smelly Alien

Some of the children had not completed their astronaut art work on Friday. Therefore, I get them quickly to complete it within 20 minutes. Then, after that, I shared a story with them. This is a story about a super smelly alien.

The children enjoyed the story very much. We all had a good laugh.

Then, I gave them each a piece of paper to draw their own alien in it before we call it a day.

Art Work: I am an astronaut with my spaceship

Date: 19th August 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Art Work: I am an astronaut with my spaceship

Yesterday, I have took the up close picture of everyone so that I can print their face out for the activity today.

I brought in some black paper, some colour papers and a cut out picture of an astronaut without a face. The children needed to use the colour paper to create their own spaceship and pasted it onto the black colour paper. After that, they need to trim the cut out picture of the astronaut before putting their face onto it and pasted it into their picture. Finally, they could decorate their pictures with stars, planets etc.

Here were some pictures taken of their finished art work:

What does an astronauts do?

Date: 18th August 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

What does an astronauts do?

Today, we were talking about astronauts. I get the children to share their thoughts about astronauts.

Teacher: Why do we have astronauts? What do you think astronauts do in space?
Leow Xun: Because we don't know the plants. What colour is the planet? Because they fly to space to see the planets.
Sueanne: Astronauts go to space to see the planet.
Zi Yue: Because they are different planet in the solar system.
Lik Shin: They take picture of the planets.
Rachel: They write the name of the planet.
Sueanne: They observe and draw the planets.

Wow, these were some of the opinions of the children about astronauts. Then, we have a book on space that mentioned a little about the job of the astronauts and the space station out there.

I played a short video about an astronaut explaining of some experiment that they could in space. The children could also see the condition of the gravity in the space. Things are floating around them. They were amazed.

Video: Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science!

Get to Know the Planet Better Activity (part II)

Date: 17th August 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Get to Know the Planet Better Activity (part II)

Only a few of the kids managed to complete the activity correctly. Therefore, today, I will have to guide at least 10 of them to complete theirs. As a result, I asked those who had completed their task the day before to help me out and guide their friends to complete their task today. Most of them were willing to do so and I only needed to guide less than 5 of them.

Here were some pictures taken during the activity:

Get to Know the Planets Better Activity

Date: 16th August 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Get to Know the Planets Better Activity

The children were supposed to have their Wushu class today. However, it was cancelled as the Wushu teacher needed to rehearse with another class for the performance on the coming sports day. Therefore, we have the full hour of class today.

I found a worksheet that the children could colour it and arranged the 8 planets accordingly. It took the children quite some time to complete the colouring today.

However, I managed to get some of them to start by cutting out the planets and arranged them onto a piece of long black paper to represent the space. The children also needed to cut out the names of the planet that was printed on the worksheet itself.

I did a sample of this activity (without colour)

Facts on the last 4 planets & song

Date: 15th August 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
(Snack Time: 4:00-4:30 pm)
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Facts on the last 4 planets & song

Today, we went through the facts of the last 4 planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune. The children were even more amazed with the facts mentioned about these 4 planets as they were very far away from the sun.

I read them a short story about space - Here in Space, written and Illustrated by David Milgrim.

After that, I play the solar system song for them again as they didn't know how to sing it. We practise a few times before we call it a day.

Book Sharing & 4 planets in the Solar System

Date: 12th August 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Book Sharing & 4 planets in the Solar System

Lik Shin brought a book on space. It's an interesting book full with all sorts of areas to be explored. Besides that, Mei Jia also brought an astronaut toy to show to her classmates.

Then, by adapting one of the space information book that I found, we started off by learning the different names of the 4 planets from the sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars today. The children were amazed by the facts about these 4 planets even including Earth. Basically, we learned about the numbers of moon, the surface temperature of each planet, the orbit period of each planet and also other interesting facts about them.

Then, I played them a song on planet - The Planets (in our Solar System)