Revision

Date: 9th March 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Revision

I read 2 books to the children last Friday. Therefore, today, we just went through the sea creatures that we could see from the book itself. Then, we did some rounds on words recognition besides getting the children to re-tell the story in their own words.

We read a book about the description of different shape and sizes of the sea creatures. By using the description in in, I get the children to work in group to present it out with their body language.

These were some of the pictures taken:-

Some fish are long.

Some fish are fat.

Some fish are spiny.

Some fish are spiny.

Some fish are furry.

Some fish has five arms. (This was done after some guidance)

Book Sharing - Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson & A house for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

Date: 6th March 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Book Sharing - Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson & A house for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

As the crab theme is coming to an end soon, I wish to share these two wonderful picture book with the children. Though I only have "Sharing a Shell" by Julia Donaldson in Mandarin version, yet, I managed to get all the lines in English online.

Book Sharing #1- Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson

This is a story about a crab who found an empty shell. Then a sea anemone and a bristle worms came and shared the shell with the crab. Three of them happily staying as friends until one day, the crab started to complain about how heavy his friends had became. The sea anemone and the crab went separated but both of them were not happy. Finally, the bristle worms found another bigger and clean shell. The bristle worm asked both of them to join him again in the new home. At last, three of them were moving around in the rock pool happily together again. 



Book Sharing #2 - A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

This story is about a hermit crab who found a new shell as its home. Along his venture around the sea floor throughout the year, he picked up an item for each month. He had picked up a sea anemone, a sea snail, a starfish, a sea urchin, a crusty coral, a lantern fish and some pebbles. When the hermit crab outgrown his shells, he has to leave it to another smaller hermit crab to take care of his friends. The hermit crab will search for another new shell with another group of new friends when he go wander along the sea floor. 

Game - Crab Walking

Date: 5th March 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Game - Crab Walking

Today, we have about 15 children. Therefore, I divided the class into 3 groups with about 5 in a group. I brought 2 boxes of toys instead of one. Anyhow, the children who stood in between the 2 groups could choose to pick up toys from either one of the boxes.

We had three rounds of the games to see which group could do the best. Most of the children could follow and obey the rules and regulations while some still carry out the activity on their own way.

Finally, we have 3 groups which won the same points. Therefore, the winners received 2 sweets each while the loser will only get to choose one sweet. The children had some fun today!

A picture taken before the game started. 

Two boxes of toys were placed in the middle of the room.

The children needed to walk side way like a crab to pick up a toy before reaching the finishing line. 

Angela: Look, I'm a crab. 

Jun Yi: Do I look like a crab walking?

Alice and Germaine trying their best to walk side way as fast as they could.

Hui Ting & Shyi Yee: Crab, crab, I'm a side walking crab. 

Kheng Yee: Hee, hee, I'm a crab!

Art and Craft - crab (palm printing) & Game- Part II

Date: 4th March 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art and Craft - crab (palm printing) & Game- Part II

The children continued with the art work that they had done half way yesterday. I gave the children about half an hour time to add on any details that they wanted.

Some of the children would just add in anything they like while some will refer to reference books on the picture of a crab.

Game- Crab Walking 
I divided the class into 2 big groups today. There were about 7 in a group. Then, I put a box of toy in the middle of the room.

The rules of the game are as followed:
1) The children needed to walk side way like a crab until they reach the box of toy.
2) Pick up a toy and continued until they reach a table with a basket.
3) Place the toy into the basket.

Any of the children who didn't follow the rules will be asked to re-do the whole process again. This is to train the children to follow and obey an instruction.

We shall play this game tomorrow again with rewards.

Art and Craft: Crab (palm printing) - part I

Date: 3rd March 2015
Day: Tuesday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art and Craft: Crab (palm printing) - part I

Today, we did a palm printing art for our theme - crab. I prepared some red paint and paper. This time, the children themselves painted one of their palm while I helped them to paint the other palm of theirs. At least they get to learn to use the paintbrush.

Shyi Yee & Jie Min

Dexter & Angela

Kian Han & Kai Yuan 

These were some of the art work done by the children today:-

art work by Germaine 

art work by Kheng Yee

More on crab & book sharing

Date: 2nd March 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

More on crab & book sharing

Today, we learned a little bit more about crab. Some of the crab will carry their eggs and let it flow along with the sea currents while some will carry its young until they were able to be on their own.

I showed the children some pictures of the mother crab who carried their young crabs with them. Once the young crab could be on their own, they have to hide themselves in some empty shells or near the rocks as fish or baby dragonfly loves to feed on them.

We also learned to differentiate between the male and female crab by looking at the shape of their stomach. Hopefully we could get a real crab to observe it.

Book Sharing - Hermit Crab's friend

This simple reading book introduces hermit crab. Hermit crab needed a shell as its house or protection from enemy who loves to eat them such as the octopus or fish. The sea anemone is a friend to the hermit crab. It will stick on to the hermit crab and share food with it. It'll also protect hermit crab from being attacked.

Once, there was an octopus that saw the hermit crab and wanted to eat it. The sea anemone stink the octopus and make it numb. Unfortunately, at this time came by a sperm whale who loves to eat octopus. The octopus became its food.

Crab

Date: 26th February 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Crab

Today, we learned another new sea creature- crab. We went through some basic facts and information about the crab such as their habitat, their body parts, their food etc from book.

Basically, we will focus on crab next week. Children could bring any books or reading materials that related to crab to school to share with their fellow friends.

Note: The school will be closed for holiday on 27th February 2015 (Friday), therefore, there's no blog updates for tomorrow.