Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?

Date: 15th October 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?

As we moved on to brown colour, immediately I thought of this book from Eric Carle. A parent from another class even did some animals print out for this story. She borrowed the materials for me to carry out the activities in the class. I have counted, there are about 10 animals that we can used to carry out an activity according to the story.

As I read the story to the children, those children who were holding that particular animals would stand up and stand in line. The children listen and follow the instruction until we completed the whole story.

Then, all the children jumbled themselves up and stand in a line. I will give a start for the story and the children would follow the line from the story and see what's the animal that is standing next to him/her. We had this for 2 rounds before the children call it a day.

The children suggested that they could make a picture book like this one. Therefore, I get each child to name me an animal that they could put it into their picture book.

These were the animals that the children suggested: -
cat, fish, rabbit, snake, deer, bat, lion, bear, crocodile, tortoise, frog,

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.

Grey - Elephant Art

Date: 13th October 2014
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Grey - Elephant Art

Since the children learned about white and black. Then when we mixed the colour together, we will get grey. Therefore, I brought in some black and white water colour and mixed it in front of the children. Now, they understand more about colour mixing.

Then, we picked an animal that is grey in colour. The children all agreed to pick elephant. Therefore, we did an art work on grey.

This time, the children painted the grey water colour that I have mixed onto their palm and immediately printed it onto the drawing paper that I have prepared.

Once the paint has dried, the children could start to add on details to their art work.

Zen Hong & Kai Heng doing the palm printing together. 

Huey Xin & Yi Fai

Ayden happily painted his palm grey for the elephant art.

Pin Jee printing his palm on the paper to make two elephants' picture.

New Colour - Black

Date: 9th & 10th  October 2014
Day: Thursday & Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

New Colour - Black

We had a short period for brainstorming session on black. Then we did a worksheet on black according to the nursery rhyme - Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. The children needed to fill in the the word "black" in the blanks of the nursery rhymes.

Then the children colour the sheep in black so that they understand the link of the colour and its name.

I also prepared a quarter of the drawing paper for each child. Then I demonstrated by using varieties of crayons colours to colour on the drawing paper. Then on top of the colourful colours, I painted it with black crayons. The black crayons must covered all the colourful colours. Then I used the long toothpicks to draw pictures on it. The children were amazed to know that colours will appear from the black crayons layer.

With the demonstration done, the children quickly picked up those colourful crayons and started drawing on their drawing paper. After they had covered it with the black crayons, they were so eager to start off with their pictures.

Sharing Session - White Clouds Art

Date: 7th - 8th October 2014
Day: Tuesday & Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sharing Session - White Clouds Art

We used these 2 days to get the children to talk about their art as they said they have quite some stories to share with their friends. As some of their stories were quite long, therefore, I gave them 2 days to complete it before we moved on to another colour - black.

Yi Fai: This is an ice cream car. The robot is going into the house. The Lamborghini go inside the house.

Thong Xuan: This is a princess. The princess lost her daddy mummy. She lives alone in the house. The wind blows very hard. The princess lives in an igloo.

Pin Jee: One day, the little car, he go go he see an ice cream car. He wants eat ice cream. Then the train and a car come. The train stopped, the car went into the train and go away.

Huey Xin: People go inside the house. Then they go to the car. Then they go "Giant" for shopping.

Edmund: One day, the car flying the aeroplane fly the tank is in front. One racing car go away. After the racing car go to the house, he walk inside.

Yee Hin: This is KLCC. A truck is at the office. This is KL - Tower. A racing car. A father racing car. A mother racing car. An orange Lamborghini.

Jayden: This is my KLCC. This is my long train. This is my car. This is my aeroplane.

Zen Hong: One day a car..... (he didn't complete his story and shy away)

Yi Xuan: My house. I stay, mommy stay, no eat sweet. Mommy sleeping. Thong Xuan say gives mommy coffee. Ee Wern give mommy coffee. Mommy wake up. Mommy still sleeping. I said mommy no touch my car. Yi Xuan give dog eat.

Ee Wern: This is flower. This is a sun.

Ayden: One day, Ferrari race very fast. This one win. These two broken. These two cars are very fast.

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part IV)

Date: 3rd October 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part IV)

As some of the children had not completed their drawing from yesterday, therefore, today, I allowed them to continue with their work.

Finally, most of them are done by end of the class. These are some of their art work:

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part III)

Date: 2nd October 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part III)

Now, the blue sky and white clouds are ready. The children needed to put in some pictures for their art work. I gave each child a piece of A4 paper, they could start to decide what to put in into their art. After that they could cut it and pasted it into their art.

The children were happily drawing and telling their stories to their friends while cutting and pasting it onto their art.

Therefore, I decided to let the children to share their art work with their friends once they had done with it.

Art Work - White Colouds In the Blue Sky (Part II)

Date: 1st October 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - White Colouds In the Blue Sky (Part II)

Today, we shall continue with the art work we did half way yesterday. I prepared some white paint for the children to work on it as clouds. They could paint their blue colour sky with clouds by using their  hand. They could print with their fingers, or back of their palm.

Some of them painted their clouds pretty small while some of them painted their clouds pretty big. I told the children to try to paint the clouds on top of the paper and leave the other half of the paper empty. I wish to get the children to do some drawings to be pasted on the other half of the paper these 2 days.

Note: No photos for this activity as well. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part I)

Date: 30th September 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - White Clouds in the Blue Sky (Part I)

Today, we shall carry out an art work about white colour. Before that, I gave every child half a piece of the drawing papers. Then I also prepared some blue colour water colour for the children to paint their pictures all in blue to make the blue sky.

Some of them painted their sky really dark blue while some painted their sky in shades. Once the blue paint is dry, then only we could put in the white colour tomorrow.

Note: Parts of the pictures for this activity was lost. Therefore, no pictures to be uploaded for this post. Sorry for any inconvenience.

White Colour

Date: 29th September 2014
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

White Colour

Today, we all sat down and had a brainstorming session about white colour items that the children could think of.

Teacher: Can you think of any thing that is naturally white in colour?
Thong Xuan: paper, rabbit, cloud
Huey Xin: whiteboard
Jayden: hair, dog, milk
Yi Fai: shell
Edmund: teeth

At the same time, I also put in some other things such as egg white, elephant tusk etc.

Song - Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece is white as snow.

I shared a Mandarin storybook that related to white clouds to the children. It's about dream and action. It's an encouraging story about a white sheep who wanted to seek for his dream by asking his friends - the farm animals to do it together with him.

From the pictures of the storybook, the children noticed about the white clouds and the white sheep.
They started to tell stories of theirs about white colour. Things that they saw or things that they know at home which is white in colour.

We shall do an activity this week about white colour.

New Colour - White

Date: 26th September 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

New Colour - White

From the list of the colours that the children had voted earlier, the next colour would be white. The children were asked to look for things that is white in their class. They could also bring items that is white in colour to share with their friends next week. 

Game - Goose, Goose, Geese
By now, the children should be quite familiar with the names of colours, therefore, we carried out this game today. 

The children sat down in a small circle. Then I picked a child to go around touching their friend's head. By doing so, that child needed to say out a colour. Every round, I shall gave them a colour that the children needed to be aware of. Once they hear their friend mentioned about that colour, they have to stand up immediately and chase after that child. The one who is being chased needed to be fast enough to sit back at the empty seat. 

Colours that I picked were the colours that the children had learned. Most of them were quite alert of what their friends are saying while some are quite slow in reaction. However, the kids had fun. 

After the chase, the kids took some rest by lying on the floor. We call it a day. 

Silver Object Project (Part III)

Date: 25th September 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Silver Object Project (Part III)

Today, I encouraged the children to add in some silver colours into their object. I have some silver colour paper, some from the cereal wrappers and some foil paper. 

From group to group, I try to suggest places where they could add in the silver colours. Most of the groups somehow managed to understand what my suggestions and discussed with their groups members to add in the silver colours into their work. 

Finally, after a few days of hardwork, their art work is done! The children happily shared their art work with their friends. 

Baby Pram done by Ee Wern & Huey Xin

Motorcycle done by Edmund & Ayden

Robot done by Pin Jee, Kai Heng, Zen Hong & Yee Hin

racing car done by Yi Fai & Jayden

A girl done by Thong Xuan & Yi Xuan

That's end of silver colour. Tomorrow, we shall move on to another new colour - white.

Silver Object Project (Part II)

Date: 24th September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colour
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Silver Object Project (Part II)

Today, we continued with the parts that the children had left out yesterday. Today, I assisted the children in helping them to amend their picture's outline accordingly. Then I encourage the children to look for the colours that they needed from the magazine. Try to keep some space for silver colour. 

Some groups were quite certain of the colours that they needed and they will search for the particular colours in the magazine. However, some needed some guidance in choosing the colours and also where to put their collage.

By end of the day, I could somehow visualize the pictures that they children wanted to do. Yet, they have not included any silver colours into their pictures.

We shall continue tomorrow with the silver colours in their pictures.

Silver Object Project (Part I)

Date: 23^rd September 2014

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Silver Object Project (Part I)

Jayden brought a silver magnet ball to share with his classmates. The children spent some time observing it as it could pick up any metal objects.

I found some cardboard boxes which come in different sizes. I cut it open. I wonder what the children could come out by using silver colour. On the other hand, I also found some silver wrappers from the cereal box.

I divided the 4 girls into 2 groups, while the 8 boys into 3 groups. Each group needed to discuss what they could draw on the cardboard boxes and it could relate to silver colour.

These were the groups and their idea:

-          Thong Xuan & Yi Xuan – a princess in silver dress

-          Huey Xin & Ee Wern – a baby pram

-          Yi Fai & Jayden – a silver racing car

-          Edmund & Adyen – a silver motorcycle

-          Pin Jee, Zen Hong, Kai Heng & Yee Hin – a silver robot

The children chose the sizes of the cardboard boxes that they needed.  I have some magazines in hand for the children to do collage work on their cardboard boxes. Each group started to discuss and draw out the outline of their pictures before they started to ask for materials.

I went round to see their work. I guided and assisted them as some of their pictures were pretty small. It could look more real and nice if it’s big.

Most of the groups manage to draw their outline and some simple collage work. We shall continue tomorrow.

Note: The pictures for this activity were stored in the computer. Unfortunately, it was lost. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. 

New Colour – Silver

Date: 22nd September 2014

Day: Monday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

New Colour – Silver

Today, we started off with the new colour- Silver colour. We did a brainstorming session on this colour before we continue with other activity related to it.

Teacher: Can you name me things that are silver in colour?

Thong Xuan: silver crown, necklace

Edmund: silver bicycle

Pin Jee: silver car, earrings, water bottle

Zen Hong: silver rocket

Huey Xin: silver trumpet

Yee Hin: silver train

Jayden: silver ring, coins

Ayden: silver drum

Book Sharing – Stars by Mary Lyn Ray & Marla Franzee

This lovely book is about stars. As we raised our head at night, we could see stars in the sky.

After reading the book, I asked the children to observe the night sky to see if they could see some stars that shining bright in the dark sky. However some of the children don’t agree that stars are silver in colour. They said that the stars should be in yellow. 

Art & Craft-Golden Crown (Part II)

Date: 19th September 2014

Day: Friday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art & Craft-Golden Crown (Part II)

Today, I brought in some shining golden dust powder for the children to decorate their crown. As this part, I needed to guide them individually; therefore, the children take turns to complete their beautiful crown. Most of the children could complete their art work today.

Once they have put the golden dust powder on it, they used the glue to paste the two ends of the black stripe paper together so that it makes a round shape. Then once done, they started to put on their crown. Some needed some adjustment with the size of it. Most of them looked good.

The children brought their golden crown back home happily.

Art & Craft - Golden Crown (Part I)

Date: 18th September 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art & Craft-Golden Crown (Part I)

Today, we started to make the golden crown. With the black long rectangular paper that I had distributed yesterday, we continue to decorate it with some golden materials.

I found some round golden paper plates. However, I only have about 4 in hands. So I got an idea by cutting them into triangular shape to be equally shared among the children. After cutting all the 4 paper plates only I realised that there's about 32 pieces of it. There were about 11 children in the class today. How shall we divided the pieces equally?

I guided the children to count the numbers of triangular shape that I have in hand and we tried to distribute it by giving each one about 3 pieces. The last person only got 2. The children discussed among themselves who should get the remaining 2 pieces of it. Some suggested the shortest and smallest person in the class to get it. I think it's not fair. Therefore, I asked for volunteer. Not long, then Jayden volunteered to take the remaining 2 pieces and he said that he has other ideas of how to do with it.

Once the children got the golden paper plate, they started to work on their crown. Some of them would paste the triangular shape as the pointed end of the crown while some of them cut the 3 pieces of golden plate to decorate their crown. All sorts of great idea came out.

The children only manage to complete parts of their art work today. I have got some shinning golden dust. We shall continue with that tomorrow.

Note: The pictures for this activity was stored in the computer. Unfortunately, it was lost. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Date: 17th September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Before we went in to our main activity today, I asked the children if they could think of an art work that we could do with the golden plates that I have in hand? Some suggested to eat with it, then some said crown for the princess. 

Therefore, I get some of the children to draw the crown to see if they understand what their friends were trying to say. Unfortunately, the crown that they drew couldn't be recognized. As a result, I brought them down to the hall to look at the pictures that I had found online. Now, the children have some idea of what a crown looked like. 

Since we were at the computer, I played them a story related to golden - Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 

Video Sharing: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have another 15 minutes left, I distributed each child a black colour long strip of black paper for them to draw some pictures on it. This is to use for the band of the crown. We shall continue this art work tomorrow. 

Golden Necklace Art

Date: 15th September 2014
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Golden Necklace Art

I accidentally fell down and hurt my back. I was on medical leave to stay at home for the whole week last week. There's a relief teacher who helped me to guide the children to do some activity related to golden colour. The relief teacher managed to find a picture of a necklace. Therefore, she get the children to do cut and paste. 

When I returned to work today, I thought of to do some extension activity about this golden necklace. However, when I showed the children the picture, they said it doesn't look like a necklace. It looked more like some golden triangles. Therefore, we tried to make some sentences according to the children's suggestion. 

Finally, we came out with these 2 sentences: 

1) There are nine golden triangles. 
2) It is shinning brightly.

Immediately, I prepared the words accordingly and cut it out for the children to do sentence rearrangement. Most of the children could do this activity without much guidance. 

It's a public holiday tomorrow. We shall continue with the golden colour activity on Wednesday. 
                                                                 

Making a Golden Colour Poster

Date: 5th September 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Making a Golden Colour Poster

Jayden brought us a golden coin. It is a 20 cents. The children took turn to look at it. On the other hand, I brought in a gold medal to show it to the children. 

Then I have a fashion magazine in hand - Women Weekly. We should be able to find some pictures of golden things in it. Therefore, all the children sat in a small circle and we went through the pages one by one. The children's task were to spot any golden things or picture of each page as I flipped it. 

We managed to complete flipping the magazine and located a few pages to cut out. I cut out the picture carefully so that we could put it on the mahjong paper. Then I labelled them. Accidentally, I got the word - bracelet, spelt wrongly. 

This is the poster that we did together:

New Colour - Golden

Date: 4th September 2014

Day: Thursday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

New Colour - Golden

The children had done quite some colours so far. We had also covered all the colours in a rainbow. Therefore, today, I got the children to discuss which are some of the colours that they would like to explore. 

After a round of suggestion and voting, finally, the children decided the following colours. At the same time, I also arranged the colours in sequence according to the numbers of vote. These is the list of it:

1) golden

2) silver

3) black

4) white

5) grey

6) brown

As we got a little time left today, therefore, I got the children to tell me if they remember anything in golden. 

They could tell me a few such as coins, gold medal etc. I added a few more in such as ring, earrings, broach. 

The children were asked to bring anything in golden colour to share with the class this week. 

Lotus Printing

Date: 3rd September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Lotus Printing

The headmistress got some fresh lotus for the children to share today. Looking at beautiful lotus, suddenly an idea pops up. I might be able to use the lotus for water colour printing today. 

Therefore, I quickly prepared some water colour for the children and some papers. Then we started off by having 2 children to do at the same time. After the children had got the lotus printed on their paper, they could start to decorate it. 

Some of it were quite creative and beautiful. 

Milk Experiment

Date: 2nd September 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colour
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Milk Experiment

I demonstrated the milk experiment to them last Friday. Therefore, today, I let the children tried it out on their own. 

First, we placed some milk on a shallow plate. Then I put in some food colouring. Then, I dipped the cotton bud with the dishwasher and placed it in the middle of the food colouring. Immediately, the colours started to spread in round circle. 

I passed the cotton bud and the dishwasher around for the children to try it out on their own. This experiment is quite beautiful as the colours will be mixed together. It also explained that oil contains in milk and the dishwasher could break it up. 

Colours on Water

Date: 29th August 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Rainbow Colour
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Colours on Water

After watching the video about "Colours on Water", the children asked if they could do the same. So I prepared some acrylic colours and a pail of water. After a few attempt, yet the colours are so light and couldn't see anything. Some children tried as well. Yet, the colour turned out to be very blur and no clear image at all. 

Since it was not successful, we shall try it again when we got the suitable material. We moved down stairs to the school hall to carry out the milk experiment. I have some fresh millk, some food colouring and some dishwasher. 

We had a discussion on the next colour. After a round of voting, these were the colours and sequence that the children would like to have:

1) golden
2) silver
3) black
4) white
5) grey
6) brown

Parents could read up some books related to the colours that the children mentioned above. The children could share it with others in the class in the future.