2016年9月8日星期四

Parts of a House

Date: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th September
Day: Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Parts of a House
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Parts of a House

For the remaining 5 years old, I planned to go through some simpler lessons with them especially about things around them. Therefore, I started off with "parts of the house" to get them to familiar with some simple sentences as well as knowing the surrounding.

The children get to learn some simple sentence making such as:

This is a _________. (name of furniture etc)
I see a _________ (name of furniture etc) in the ___________ (part of the house such as living room etc).
I have a ______________ (name of furniture etc) in the _________ (part of the house such as living room etc).

Besides making sentences, I also prepared a worksheet for them to place the furniture in the correct part of the house.

After this, we are moving on to "My Friends".

Note: Blog will be updated once a subtopic is done. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. 

2016年9月1日星期四

Drama (Final Lesson)

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

Drama (Final Lesson)

The Wushu teacher got them to practise holding the dragon and run around the hall in patterns. Most of them could follow the instructions and practise accordingly.

After the wushu class, the children get the chance to choose their character in the drama and we only managed to act out for one session before we call it a day.

The six years old children are going to have their pre-primary course in September & October.

The five years old children shall carry on with their thematic class. However, the lessons will be based more on conversation. The blog will up dated once a week for September & October.

Discussion on a drama script

Date: 29th August 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Magician
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Discussion on a drama script

A few children came out to demonstrate their magic tricks yet not many of them were successful. However, I'm proud of their bravery of standing in front of their friends and giving the simplest explanation that they could.

Our thematic class is coming to an end tomorrow. I always wanted the children to try their best to come out with a story that they could include all the things that they have learned about in the story. I started the story for them and the children tried their best to continue it.

The story goes like this:

Long, long ago, there's a magician who wanted to play with magic. He wanted to transfer himself from box A to box B. But something went wrong. Instead of box B, he ended up into the dinosaur world. He saw 5 dinosaurs there. Suddenly, the 5 dinosaurs started to sing:

Five little dinosaurs sitting in the swamp, 
The first one said, "Let's stomp, stomp, stomp."
The second one said, "It's time for lunch!"
The third one said, "Let's munch, munch, munch!"
The fourth one said, "Let's stomp some more."
The fifth one said, "Let's roar!"

As the dinosaurs were roaring and they saw the magician and started to chase after him. He quickly say his magic words again, "Magic, magic, send me to box B!"

It went wrong again. He ended up in a spaceship in space. He saw 5 astronauts there. After saying hello to each other, the 5 astronauts started to sing:

Five little astronauts sitting in space, 
The first one said, "Let's drive the spaceship."
The second one said, "Let's take some pictures."
The third one said, "Let's count the planets."
The fourth one said, "Let's fly, fly, fly!"
The fifth one said, "Let's zoom!"

Magician: "Oh, no! I don't want to be in space. Magic, magic, send me to box B!"

He came back to Earth and saw a boy and a girl. He asked: "How can I go back to box B?"

The boy and girl started to sing the transport song. After singing the song, the magician said, "I don't want any car, boat, train or plane. I just want to go to box B!"

Therefore, he tried his magic words again. Finally, he came out back from box B. 

After the script is out, the children wanted to act it out, therefore, I quickly sort out the numbers of children needed for each character in the story. The children were enjoying it though they were not the main character - the magician in the story. They wanted to try it again on the next day. It would be our last day tomorrow. Hopefully, the children could enjoy it to the fullest!


2016年8月31日星期三

Magic Show

Date: 26th August 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Magician
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Magic Show

Sueanne said she wanted to perform a magic show for us. She needed just a coin. She placed the coin in her palm and then she covered it a little with the other hand. Then, suddenly, the coin started to climb out of her hand. The children were amazed. (I didn't get the chance to take any photos and videos as I was busy trying to guide her to explain her action to her friends.)

Then, Lik Shin said he also had another magic trick to show his friend but failed. Lik Shin just laughed at his own performance.

I brought in 2 experiments for the children to see.

#1: Guiding the Spacecraft
With the use of a cylinder and some yarn, I can guide the cylinder to move up and down whenever I wanted.

I let the children played with it after the demonstration.








#2: I prepared a coin, a transparent glass and water for the second experiment. This experiment is about the refraction of lights. I placed the coin under the transparent glass. The children could still see the coin there. However, when I filled up the glass with water, the coin seems disappear. The children couldn't believe their eyes and requested me to redo the demonstration.

After the demonstration, the children get to try it out on their own. However, no photos were taken for the second part.

Magician

Date: 25th August 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Magician
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Magician

I'm not planning to introduce magician to the children as they might not know who they are. I'm planning to bring in science experiment to show them as it looks like magic too.

Anyhow, I still play them a short video about a TV magic show that I have seen.

Video: 1Dynamo Magician Impossible S03E01 season 3 episode 1

The children were amazed with the magic show that they saw. Some of them said they could prepare a magic performance for us on the following day. We shall look forward to it.

Space Rhyme (Part II)

Date: 24th August 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Space Rhyme (Part II)

Today, I get the children to group themselves into 3 big groups with about 6 in a group. They have to discuss the sequence of reading and acting out the space rhyme.

I have did some recording. However, the quality was not that good for this time. I will only post those better ones.


2016年8月23日星期二

Space Rhymes

Date: 23rd August 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
(Wushu Class: 4:00-5:00 pm)
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: I Love Stage Performance - Space
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Space Rhymes

The children had their Wushu class today. The teacher guided them to work in patterns and some practise on the basic stretching.





Then, the children wanted to adapt the dinosaur rhyme with the astronaut. Even though it doesn't rhymes, yet it was created by the children. I believe that they will remember the lines better.

Here is the Astronauts Rhymes:

Five little astronauts sitting in the space.
The first one said: "Let's drive the spaceship."
The second one said: "Let's take some pictures."
The third one said: "Let's count the planets."
The fourth one said: "Let's fly, fly, fly."
The fifth one said: "Let's zoom!"