Drawing a Tree (part III)

Date: 23^rd September 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Drawing a Tree (Part III)

The children’s tree art had already dried up. So I used some time for the children to have a look at their fellow classmates’ drawing. Some followed the instruction I gave by using their finger tips to draw the leaves while some had it their way. It came out some quite unique and the children came out to do some explanation about their drawings.

Book Sharing – The Two Tree 《两棵树》

I can’t find the English version of this book, therefore, I used the Mandarin version of it and tell the story in English. This is an interesting book telling about friendship.

There’s two trees, one shorter than the other, were good friends. They always compare and tried their best to beat each other by comparing the numbers of leaves, the numbers of birds, who had the greenest leaves etc. When comes to argument, they didn't want to give in sometimes.

Unfortunately, someone bought over the garden and built a wall in between the two trees. The bigger tree seems lost and lonely and it started to wither. The smaller tree somehow tried to console its friend not to give up. After some very long lonely days, suddenly, the bigger tree saw a green leaves coming from the other side of the wall. The smaller tree was trying hard to grow taller to reach the other side of the wall. This actually motivated the bigger tree to grow again. Finally, both trees meet again as they grew taller than the wall and they cherished this friendship even deeper. They stretched their branches and twigs to each other so that it tangled till no one could separate them anymore.

Sharing session of the story

Teacher: We have to love our friends.

Kwan Ming: Ee….I don’t want to love.

Teacher: Why not?

Kwan Ming: No, no, no love.

Teacher: Do you all like to come to school? Why?

Kwan Ming: Yes, got lots of toys.

Emerson: Got playground.

Jiun Jie: I can play.

Derek: Toys. Play toys.

Teacher: Let say one day, if you come to school and there’s only you alone without anyone else. Would you still like to come to school. (The children started to shake their head.) I thought you all like to play with toys. Why not?

Kwan Ming: Because no friends.

Teacher: You can play alone in the playground or all the toys.

Children: No, no fun. No one to play.

Teacher: Friends are important. So we have to be good and friendly to our friends. We have to love our friends.

Throughout the sharing session, Kwan Ming stressed that it’s “like” , not “love.” He is so cute!