Book Sharing & Fun with strings art

Date: 14th October 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Book Sharing & Fun with strings art

Since we were doing the elephant art yesterday, I shared a story about colours that related to an elephant. However, this book is in Mandarin, therefore, I read it in Mandarin for the children to understand more about how the writer describe those colours.

Book Sharing - You are My Best Friend 《你是我最好的朋友》
The story is about a white mouse - Nana, who wish to make friends with elephants. However, everyone knows that elephant is scared of mouse. Nana believes that it was all the fault of Ah Bao, a leader of a naughty mouse gang, who always make fun of the elephant. 

One day, Nana met an elephant called Momo. He was a blind elephant who can't see. Therefore, Nana will describe all the colours to Momo so that he could also feel it and as though he could see it. 

When Ah Bao came to disturb both of them, Momo used all the colours that Nana thought him to teach Ah Bao and the gang a lesson. After that, Nana and Momo had some peaceful time playing together. 

Since we have some time after the story sharing session, we did a colour art work by using strings and water colour.

The children will place the string into the colours that they wanted. However, I only prepared the primary colours for them - red, yellow and blue.

Then once they have dipped the string with colours, they will place it on one side of their drawing paper. They have to fold the paper into half and press hard before they pulled the string out from it. It will form a pattern.

The boys are colouring their string with water colour.

Huey Xin pressed her coloured string onto the paper while Ayden looked on.

Then, she pulled the coloured string. 

The children like it very much as each of them will get a different picture out from it. After that, they will start to tell story of their pictures to their friends.