The Great Cheese Robbery (Book) & elephant art

Date: 19th October 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

The Great Cheese Robbery (Book) & elephant art

Today, we started off by revising on the facts about elephant that they had watched yesterday.

Teacher: What do you remember about the facts of the elephant from the video clip yesterday?
Shan Lin: Long nose and big ears.
Khai Hann: trunk is the long nose.
Yern Rou: The trunk can take water and drink.
Yi Rou: The elephant trunk can take food to ear.
Max: The eyes are very big.
Gaby: The elephant's trunk can help another elephant out from the mud. (She kept insisting that she remember this very well.)
Haowen: The elephant use the trunk to take the banana.
(It was not shown in the video. However, Haowen said he saw this before.)
Yi Tong: Elephant's trunk can hug.
Max: The elephant can hear. The kangaroo cannot hear. (He was referring to the story - Horton Hears a Who!)
Shan Lin: Elephant is very big and we are smaller.

After that, I took out a storybook to share with the class - The Great Cheese Robbery by Tim Warnes

After reading the story, I get the children to share one thing that they were afraid of.

Here were some of their replies:
Gaby: I'm scared of ghost.
Yi Rou: I'm scared of tiger.
Yen Rou: I'm scared of lion.
Khai Hann: I'm scared of monster.
Max: I'm scared of snake.
Shan Lin: I'm scared of dinosaur.
Haowen: I'm scared of skeleton.
Xiang Jing: I'm scared of cat.
Emely: I'm scared of dog.

In order to get prepare for the art work of the elephant tomorrow. I get the children to do a palm printing work today with some grey paint that I have mixed.

We shall continue with this art work tomorrow.

Horton Hears a Who (part II)

Date: 18th October 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Horton Hears a Who (part II)

Today, we continue with the Dr Seuss' story that we left out on yesterday. I quickly just reviewed back a little on the story line before I start. Hopefully this will help the children to link up the story. This time, the children got a little worried when I read until the page when Horton, the elephant,  was being tied up by the animals. The children kept asking if they could let the elephant go. Finally, when the last person on Who-ville managed to sound out some sound that the Kangaroo can hear, the other animals started to let go of Horton. The children were relief that they didn't put the elephant into the cage and other animals are protecting the Who-ville.

Then, I played them a short video clip about the facts on elephant.

Video #1: ELEPHANTS: Animals for children. Kids videos. Kindergarten | Preschool learning

We shall continue with the facts about elephant tomorrow.

Horton Hears a Who

Date: 17th October 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Horton Hears a Who

Today, Yi Rou brought us 2 books by Dr Seuss. I'm not sure if the children could understand Dr Seuss' book. Anyhow, I picked one of it to read it to the children. The title of the book is "Horton Hears a Who".

We only managed to read half of it as the children started to wander off as many of them couldn't understand the story line. I have to stop and retell it in my own words with expression. Hopefully by doing so, the children could catch some of the story lines. We shall continue with it on the next day.

The next animal that we are going to explore is elephant.

Zebra Art Work (part II)

Date: 14th October 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Zebra Art Work (part II)

Today, we continued with the zebra art work that we left out. I gave each of the children some black colour paper for them to cut into stripes so that they could paste them onto the body of the zebra. Then, they needed to leave some for its hair on the back of the head and its eye. Most of the children could follow instruction and they could manage to complete the art work without much help. Some needed some guidelines and methods in getting things done properly.

Here were some pictures taken during the activity:

Zebra Facts

Date: 13th October 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Zebra Facts

After watching the video about zebra yesterday, I get the children to retell me the facts that they remembered.

Here were their answers:

Khai Hann: Black and white stripes
Gaby: Got tails.
Shan Lin: Zebra can run very fast.
Yen Rou: Zebra eats grass.
Max: Zebra eats fruits.
Khai Hann: Zebra eats roots.
Shan Lin: Zebra eats leaves.
Max: Zebra is like horse.

Then, I guided them to recall about the name of the male and female zebra - stallion and mare. The baby zebra is called foal. Besides that, zebra lives in a group called herd.

After the short break for the class, the children were divided into groups to be seated. Then, I gave them an orange A4 paper with some white A4 cut paper to do the initial part of the zebra art.

After some guidance, the children managed to complete until the picture shown below for today.

We have to continue with this activity tomorrow.

Comparison of height

Date: 12th October 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Comparison of height

So far, we had learned about lion and giraffe. I also picked some vocabulary for the children to learn :

Vocabulary: lion, mane, giraffe, spots

Besides that, I also guided the children to describe the lion. They said it's big. Then, I get them to think about any description for giraffe. They came out with long legs and tall neck.

By looking at the information given on the board, I asked the children to try to see if they could make any sentences from it. I gave a sample for lion: Lion has mane. It is big. 

The children needed to make some sentences for giraffe instead. Here were some answers given:
Shan Lin: Giraffe has spots.
Gaby: Giraffe has orangy brown spots.
Khai Hann: Giraffe has some spots.

The children mentioned about tall giraffe earlier. I asked the class to see who is the tallest in the class. Some of them raised their hands. Therefore, each time, I picked 2 children to compare their height. If any of them were shorter, they will need to go back to their seat. After a few rounds of comparison, we found out that Lucas is the tallest in the class.

During the comparison of the 2 children, I guided them to make use of the phrase: taller than

The next animal that I picked is zebra. We have another about 10 minutes left, I played them a video about zebra.

Video: ZEBRA: Animals for children. Kids videos. Kindergarten | Preschool learning

Video & Book Sharing , Giraffe Art Work (part II)

Date: 10th October 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Wild Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Video & Book Sharing , Giraffe Art Work (part II)

Today, I revised back the facts that the children watched on the video about giraffe last week. After that, Max brought a book to share with his classmates. This is a book about amazing animals where it already divided them into different categories such as hunters, plant eaters etc.

 After that, I played them a story about giraffe - Giraffe Can't Dance

Video: Giraffes Can't Dance

Lastly, I gave back the giraffe art work for the children to add in details on the sides of their giraffe such as trees, grass etc.

Note: The children will be going on a field trip to the Bird Park Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Therefore, there's no blog update for 11th October 2016.