What is silver in colour?

Date: 30^th October 2013

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

What is silver in colour?

Before we start off with silver colour, we practice the “Rainbow Song”. This time round, the children could actually follow a few lines of the lyrics. Wow, they are getting better and better. I think we can add in more of the lines by end of the week.

I brought in some silver glittering dust to show to the children and wanted to see if they could think of anything about silver from it.

Teacher: Look at this silver glittering dust. What does it looks like to you?

Children: Silver…..elephant….

Teacher: Elephant? I thought elephant is grey. (Laughing from the ground)

Teacher: Does it looks like the stars in the sky?

Children: No…star is yellow in colour…..Star looks like this (drawing the shape of the star with their finger)

Teacher: Really? Star is yellow in colour? Hmm…

So, I suggested that children looked out the night sky tonight to see if they could find any stars. Share it with the class tomorrow. 

Worksheet - Colour Pattern (Part II)

Date: 29^th October 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Worksheet - Colour Pattern (Part II)

Most of the children had not completed their colour pattern yesterday. Besides that, there were some absentees who were present today. Therefore, we continue with the worksheet.

After a round of practice yesterday, the children seem to be able to handle this worksheet much better today. Most of the children were able to complete it today.

Before we end our class today, we went through the lyrics of the “Rainbow Song”. I played the song and get the children to sing along. The lively and happy rhythm makes the children wanted to dance too. I guess they love the song.

We shall move to silver tomorrow. I got the children to have a brainstorming session about things in silver that they know. Immediately Kwan Ming pointed to Teng Hong’s necklace and said that it is silver in colour.

Children were to observe things around them which is silver in colour. We shall have some activities or art work about silver colour this week.

Worksheet - Colour Pattern

Date: 28^th October 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Worksheet - Colour Pattern

Before we moved on to another colour, I wanted to see if the children could still remember the names of the colours. Therefore, I prepared a colour pattern worksheet for them to try it out.

This time, the children needs to read the name of the colours and tell me what should come next.

Sample of the exercise as followed:

red

green

green

red

green

green

Only a small group of children could tell me correctly. Some of them will tell me other colours from this group. When I read “red, green, green, red, green, green” and some of them will answer me “blue”, “orange” etc. I guess I have to do more oral practise on colour pattern.

Then we read through the lyrics for the “Rainbow Song” by Pamela Piersyn. The lyrics are as followed:

Chorus: I can name the colours in the rainbow

Red, Orange, Yellow and Green,

Blue, Indigo and Violet are seen.

Repeat Chorus

In the rainbow.

I can find the colours in the rainbow

Well, there’s a red stop sign at the end of my street,

My orange bicycle with the horn, beep, beep

Yellow butterfly landing on me

And green, green grass, under my feet

There’s a big, blue sky up above my head

Indigo’s the colour of my Daddy corvette

Violet flowers grow in Mama’s flower bed

These are the colours

There’s seven, yeah, in the rainbow

Repeat Chorus

I can name the colours in the rainbow

I can find the colours in the rainbow

I just love the colours in the rainbow!

Random Work

Date: 25^th October 2013

Day: Friday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Random Work

Today, I only have half an hour with the Starfruit class from 4:30pm – 5pm. There’s some distribution of things to each child, therefore, there’s no actual lesson today.

However, before I ended the class, I played a Rainbow song for the children. As it’s the first time hearing it, therefore, they seem not interested with it. I shall play the song more often so that the children could get familiar with it. 

Art Work - Change it to a Postcard (Part III)

Date: 23^rd October 2013

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - Change it to a Postcard (Part III)

Today, we continued a little bit more with our postcard art work. Before that, Kern Ee brought 2 beautiful postcards that his aunt gave him. It’s a postcard with China scenery as background. On the other hand, there’s also a China stamp pasted on it. I passed the postcard around for the children to have a look.

The children had written “To: Dad and Mum” and “From : (the kid’s name)” on the postcard. It looks a little bare. So I got them to write a message. The children were quite creative by telling me to write “I love you”, “I kiss you”, “I hug you” etc. We chose the most common one to write which is “I love you”. Some even told me to write “you” by just putting a “u”. I guess they must have seen that on advertisement or other cards.

After giving simple instruction and guidance on how to write it on the card, the children gave me back the postcard with the message within 5 minutes. That’s pretty fast.

Story Sharing – Fuzzy Little Tomcat

Kwan Ming found this simple storybook from the school library and wanted to share it with the children. Tomcat is a grey cat. It is a little cat who wishes to catch mice and birds. Yet, because it is too little, nothing is successful for it. A big dog saw and laughed at Tomcat.

However, Tomcat found a thing that he could do and can’t be done by the big dog where Tomcat can jump up the high wall with just one leap. There Tomcat took a nap and dreamed that he could catch mice and birds when he grows up.

Then the children took their turns to touch at the grey furry texture on the front page of the book. From here, the children could study the grey colour again.

Starfruit class’ children are going for a field trip tomorrow (24^th October 2013). Therefore, there’s no blog update for tomorrow. 

Art Work - Change to Postcard (Part II)

Date: 22^nd October 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - Change it to a Postcard (Part II)

Today, Teng Hong brought a postcard to show it to his classmate. Now, the children had a better idea of an actual postcard. So I followed the format of the back of a postcard and guide the children from the whiteboard. Most of the children could actually follow exactly while some did it differently. Most of the children don’t know their house address, therefore, I just write a fake address for the children to copy.

Once the children had written down all the necessary things needed in the postcard, they have to come to me to ask for a stamp. I printed the stamp from the internet. The children have to learn to ask it properly, otherwise, no stamp for him or her. Most of the children could actually follow and learned to say it properly and managed to get their stamp.

Everyone is happy to see that their postcard is done.

Here are some of the scenes and some of the postcards done by the children. 

Xin Yi is trying her very best to write something on the postcard. (Wordings were given on the whiteboard)

Emerson thinking hard if he has done it right. 

Wen Xuan: What else should I write? Hmm...

Kwan Ming pasted the stamp on his postcard

A sample of the postcard that the children had done. This belongs to Qi Jie. 

Art Work - Change it to a Postcard

Date: 21^st October 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Art Work - Change it to a Postcard

Today, I shared all the pictures of the “City under the Grey Sky” that the children had done with them. Most of them remember which one is their picture and happily wanted to tell something about it.

After that, I asked the children what we shall do with this picture.

Teacher: What shall we do with this beautiful picture?

Children: Picture…

Children: Draw something…I wanted to add a car.

Children: Write something.

Teacher: To write something on it is a good idea. We can make it into a postcard.

I had prepared some power point slide to show the children about postcard. I showed them some sample of postcard, how the back of the postcard should should look like, different types of stamp etc.

The children were encouraged to bring a postcard if they have at home and shared it with the class.

Due to insufficient time, we shall continue with this postcard making tomorrow.