Zebra Activity & Board Games

Date: 30th May 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Zebra Activity & Board Games

As I have told the children last Friday that today we will be doing a summary activity about zebra.

I divided all the facts and information that the children learned from the video into different colour papers. Some samples were shown below:

Everyone will come and pick a piece of colour paper with phrases or words. They needed to figure out which information should go together and pasted them onto the manila card that I have prepared.

Pictures taken during the activity:

This is how the poster looked like:

Then, I brought in the board game I mentioned to the children last Friday. I found some pins for them to represent themselves. There were about 16 of them in the class yesterday, so I divided the children in to 3 groups with about 5-6 children in a group. The children will need to take turns to roll the dice and to move the pin on the board. I placed the board game on the floor so that everyone can see it.

Here were some pictures taken during the board games activity:

The children wanted to try to play on their own. Therefore, I shall allocate some time for them to try out the game on their own tomorrow.

On the other hand, we needed some of this kind of tin for art work.

 Dear parents, kindly try your best to help your kids to collect some from home. We needed it  by end of the 1st week of June. Thank you.

Art Work - Zebra (part II)

Date: 27th May 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Art Work - Zebra (part II)

Today, we continued with the zebra art work that the children didn't get to complete yesterday. Basically, the children needed to paste the hair around the head and the neck of the zebra. Besides that, they could add in the ear if they could do it and added in the tail and the part of the front mouth. The art work would consider complete.

Then, I brought in the poster of zebra that Pomegranate done before. The children get to read the information on it. I shall prepare the similar content and get the children to do one for their own class. Besides that, the Pomegranate's class children also did some board games for the animal theme. I kept some of it and managed to find them. I showed it to the class and they wanted to know how to play. We can also play that on next Monday.

** photos of the art work will be uploaded once it's ready. 

Zebras

Date: 26th May 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Zebras

Today, we started off the lesson by continuing with the story that we left behind yesterday. The children were getting more and more excited to know whether the boy manage to free himself. Finally, when the boy managed to free himself and went back to the gazelles group, the children felt relief.

After that, I get the children to share some thoughts or facts that they know about zebras.

Wei Xiang: Zebra eat grass, some kind of horse.
Jie Min: Zebra can run fast.
Germaine: Zebra can find (can be found) in the zoo.
Umeko: Zebra got lines on their body. (stripes)
Wei Xiang: Zebra got hair from the head to neck.
Jie Min: Zebra's tail got hair.
Germaine: Zebra is with groups.
Umeko: Zebra can smell very good.
Germaine: Zebra is from the horse family.
Jie Min: Zebra's mouth and nose are black.
Germaine: Zebra's stripes are little brownish and blackish.
Wei Xiang: Zebra's stripes are black and white.
Umeko: Zebra's feet are black.
Germaine: Zebra's footprint is an "A".
Wei Xiang: Zebras run everyday. It doesn't walk.

Then, I played them a video of introducing zebras. From the video, we looked back at the feedback given by the children. They agreed to most of it and disagreed to some.

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

From the video, the children also learned a little more about zebras. We shall use those information for our next activity.

Today, I have also prepared a zebra art work to do with the children. In order for them to get it right, I guided them throughout the process of doing it. However, we only managed to complete parts of the art work and needed to continue with it on the next day.

Here are some pictures taken during the activity:

Book Sharing

Date: 25th May 2016
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
(Music Class: 4:00-5:00 pm)
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Book Sharing

The music teacher played them a movie - Sound of Music. They only managed to watch half of the movie and shall continue on their next lesson.

Today, Shyi Yee brought us a short story book that she wanted to share with the class. I picked those short stories that related to animals. There were 2 stories that I picked. One of it was about the hippo that was looking for ways to cool him down. Another story is about the silly snake that always frightens other animals. The animals wanted the crocodile to teach the silly snake a lesson.

On the other hand, Germaine also brought a storybook to share with the class. It is "The Boy who Ran with the Gazelles" by Marianna Mayer and pictures by Leonid Gore.

We only managed to read until the boy was caught by the hunters. We shall continue the story on the next day.

Sharing of the Gorilla Art

Date: 24th May 2016
Day: Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
(Snack Time: 4:00-4:30 pm)
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Sharing of the Gorilla Art

Usually, I will allow them to spend their whole snack time and we shall start our class around 4:30 pm. However, today, I was just worried that we might not be able to complete our activity today. Therefore, I have to cut short of their snack time and get them to complete their gorilla art work as soon as possible.

Fortunately, they could complete it before 4:45 pm. Then we started our sharing session today. The children had actually added in a lot of details in their gorilla art. I wanted them to share their art work. They could talk about where the gorilla is or what the gorilla is doing.

Here were the summaries of the sharing done for the day:

"The gorilla is in the zoo." - by Huey Ting, Germaine, Yi Ming, Jun Yi, Shyi Yee, Er Xuen, Umeko & Angela

"The gorilla is in the jungle." - by Shang Feng with the help from Germaine

"The gorilla is in the zoo. It is in the cage." - by Jie Min

"The gorilla is in the jungle." - by Yun Han

"The gorilla is in the zoo climbing the tree." - by Alice Lim

"The gorilla is in the zoo car." - by Dexter Wong

"The gorilla is in the zoo. He is waiting for the apple to fall down from the tree." - by Wei Xiang

"Catch the gorilla from the jungle to the zoo." - by Kai Yuan with the guidance from the teacher.

"The gorilla sits in the zoo." - by Rui Xin

"The gorilla is in the zoo. It is climbing the tree." - by Kian Han

"The gorilla is in the zoo. The gorilla is sleeping." - by Jing Zhe

More on Gorillas

Date: 23rd May 2016
Day: Monday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

More on Gorillas

Today, we completed the story of The Lion King. On the other hand Germaine brought us another story book called "It Could Have Been Worse" by A.H Benjamin & Tim Warnes.

After the story book sharing session, I guided the children to recall the facts and information of gorilla that we went through on last Friday.

Then, I played a video about gorilla for the children to learn more about it.

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

After that, I also played another video about the story of "Good Night, Gorilla". The children enjoyed it very much.

Video #2: Good Night Gorilla

We have about 30 minutes left, therefore, I distributed each a small piece of black colour art paper for the children to draw the gorilla on it. After that, they could cut it out and pasted it onto the blank A4 paper that I gave. They could also add in details onto the gorilla art work.

Gorillas

Date: 20th May 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Gorillas

We have considered done for lion. We are moving on to another animal that is also found in Africa - gorilla.
Before we started to read any facts or information about gorilla, I get the children to tell me things that they might know about gorilla.

Wei Xiang: Gorilla is scary. Gorilla catch white ants.
Umeko: Gorilla is strong and bulky.
Jie Min: Gorilla can climb trees.
Alice: Gorilla is dark in colour. Blue.
Yun Han: It is grey.
Wei Xiang: Gorilla is very big. Like monkey.
Umeko: Gorilla can crunch big bones.
Wei Xiang: Gorilla eats meat.

Some of the children don't really agree with some of the feedback given here. Anyhow, I picked a book on gorilla and read to the class. From the book, it mentioned that gorilla is big and strong. It has dark black or dark brown fur. It likes to eat juicy leaves and plants. Besides that, they usually make nest on the floor for resting and sleeping. Most of the animals won't attack such a giant beast in the jungle. However, leopard likes to hunt their small little baby. The father gorilla is called the Silverback as it has a silver patch on the body.

We shall read more about gorilla next week.

Food Art - Lion Head

Date: 19th May 2016
Day: Thursday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Mangosteen
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Food Art - Lion Head

Our food art project today is to use all the ingredients given to make a lion head.

The ingredients are such as bread, cherry tomatoes, raisins, roasted seaweeds, carrots, cheese, sweet corns and some mayonnaise.

Then, each of them was given a paper plate and a slice of bread. The children could use that to be the mane of the face of the lion. Then, once they had decided what ingredients to take, they could come out with their bowl to collect the ingredients.

They could immediately start their master piece of the lion head when they got their ingredients.

Here were some pictures of the lion head that they did:

After taking photos of their master piece, the children were eager to munch their lion head without a second thought. The children said it was tasty!