The story of Nian monster

Date: 20th January 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Happy Chinese New Year
Teacher: Ms Yeong

The story of Nian monster

The children would have known this story from their Mandarin teacher. However, I hope that the children could listen again to the story in English. Therefore, I played them a video about the Nian monster today.

Video: The Story of Nian - A Chinese New Year story

The presentation of the video amazed the kids and they could observe the drawing as well as the story. I played the story again after giving some explanation and the children also expressed their thoughts about the story.

Then, I get them to add in the details of the Nian monster on the board. I only drew the mane which looked like a lion. The children volunteered to add in the details for it. Apparently, it turned out to be quite a beautiful Nian monster. Great job, kids!

Here are some pictures taken during the activity today:

Finally, this is how the Nian monster looked like by Starfruit class:

After that, I gave each of them a piece of paper to draw out the Nian monster that they have in mind. Only Yen Rou and Max wanted to draw it on their own while others add in details from the outline that I gave them.

Here are some pictures of the Nian monster that the children had drawn:

Yen Rou

Max

Shan Lin

Gaby