2014年4月22日星期二

Introduction to Earth Day

Date: 21st April 2014
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Underwater World
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Introduction to Earth Day

In conjunction with Earth Day on 22nd April, which is tomorrow, therefore, today we had some discussion and brainstorming session about Earth Day. Though it might be a little abstract for the children to understand the concept of Earth”, however, the children tried their best to answer with all the hints that I had given.

Teacher: The theme of Earth Day is “Green Cities”. What makes our city green?
Children: Green house…green car… (I guess they don’t understand what I mean.)

So I drew a picture of a city with buildings and houses but no trees.

Teacher: Look at the picture. What is missing? There’s only houses and building.
Children: The road.
Teacher: What makes this place looks green? [Silence across the room. No one seems to notice anything else. Suddenly……]
Thong Xuan: Tree.
Pin Jee: Leaf.
Teacher: Yes, the green leaves on the tree make the city looks green. Look out of the classroom window. Can you see the tall trees there? [The children looked out of the window for a moment and excitedly said that they saw the trees. They said the trees are green. ]

Then I gave a short explanation about the important of tree to us. It’s kind of abstract again yet hopefully the children could understand it in the future.

We shall do an art work about tree for Earth Day tomorrow. 

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