New Colour: Orange & Games

Date: 18th March 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

New Colour: Orange & Games

Today, we might be able to move on to a new colour - orange. The children gave some examples such as paper, box, bag, water bottle etc. Suddenly, someone mentioned about orange and pumpkin. I asked the children what we could do with orange colour, any project in mind. They mentioned about orange juice. I believe it's a pretty easy project to do with the children.

Therefore, I suggested that each of them could bring one orange to school on Monday so that we could do orange juice.

As we still have about 30 minutes left, we played a word recognition game. I have prepared 4 word cards - red, yellow, blue and green. Every time the children got the answer correct, they will be rewarded a stamp. They needed to collect at least 3 to be rewarded a lollipop.

Here are the tools for the games:

Revision & Plant the Bunga Telang

Date: 17th March 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Revision & Plant the Bunga Telang

Today, we started off by revising all the song that we have learned about colours. At the same time, I also get the children to look at the spelling of the words while they sing along.

Then, after that, I introduced the seeds that I got for the Bunga Telang. The headmistress said we could plant it in our school garden before we moved it to the fence as this is a kind of creeper. There's space available on the fence at the back of the school. Hopefully it will grow.

We moved out to the garden for the children to take the seeds out from its pod and plant it into the soil that I have prepared.

Here were some pictures taken as the children take turns to remove the seeds from its pod:

Art & Craft: Green Frog Origami (part II)

Date: 16th March 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Art & Craft: Green Frog Origami (part II)

As I was only managed to guide 2 groups of children yesterday, today, we continued with the other 2 groups of children.

At the same time, I have some bunga telang (in Malay) or Clitoria Ternatea (its scientific name) in hand. When we were learning about blue, Yi Rou did mention that she drank some blue colour drink before. I guess this is the one that she mentioned. So I wanted to cook this and show it to them.

After the water has boiled, I put in the bunga telang with some pandan leaves. Then, I added in sugar for it to taste.

Look at that beautiful blue colour.

Art & Craft: Green Frog Origami

Date: 15th March 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Art & Craft: Green Frog Origami

Today, I prepared some art work - frog origami for the children to learn. However, before that, I played them a song - A little Green Frog.

Video: Little Green Frog - Song for Kids by Little Fox

Then, I divided the class into 4 groups. Each time, I could only teach and demonstrate the frog origami to 4 children. Some of the steps, they needed guidance as the paper were getting thicker as they fold. The tiny little hand were not that strong to fold it in order. As most of them needed guidance, I could only guide 2 groups of children to complete their frog today. We shall continue with it tomorrow.

Green Colour Song

Date: 14th March 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Green Colour Song

The children could name me quite some things in green. Therefore, today, I played them a song - Green Colour Song. Through the song, the children learned more of others things that is green in colour.

Video #1: Color G R E E N green song Kindergarten

With the help of the song, I wrote down the lyrics for the children to read through and learn to sing it.

After that, I read them a story about "Smelly Peater - The Great Pea Eater" by Steve Smallman & Joelle Dreidemy.

More on Green

Date: 11th March 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

More on Green

The children shared their thoughts of things in green.

Teacher: Name me things that are green in colour.
Children: leaf...paper... colour pencil... frog... crocodile... toy... water bottle.... bag...

Today, we did a green item search around the school. We started off with our classroom, then into the dining hall right outside of the classroom. After that, we moved down to the hall downstairs. The children spotted quite a lot of things in green around them. Unfortunately, it was raining outside, we couldn't go out. Therefore, we called it a day.

Introduction to Green

Date: 10th March 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Amazing Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Introduction to Green

We revised all the songs from red, yellow to blue. Besides that, we also sang "In the Rainbow". With the art work that the children had done for blue, they also sang "A Sailor Went to Sea" rhyme before we moved on to green colour.

I played the video - "The Three Primary Colours" song for them to flashback their memory on colour mixing. From there, they could see that green is from blue and yellow.

I also played them a video on "Little Blue and Little Yellow" a story by Leo Lionni.

Video: little blue and little yellow.mp4
(I love this version as it's pretty easy for the children to understand)