Book Sharing & Drama

Date: 1st July 2016
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Class: Durian
Theme: Colourful Animals
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Book Sharing & Drama

Today, Shyi Yee brought a book to share with the class - The Brave Little Penguin.

I also shared another book with them - Zoe the Zebra hurts her ankle.

Then, the children asked if they could play the drama again, I allowed them. The children quickly group themselves back into their groups and picked the character they want this time. I still narrated the story as it goes and they children enjoyed themselves very much.

The English thematic class shall ends here. I am glad that the children enjoyed my class and we had lots of laughter and fun together.

Sharing about Finding Dory (part II) & Drama

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

Sharing about Finding Dory (part II) & Drama

I was told that the children had gone through the story line during the Mandarin session in the morning. Therefore, I wanted the children to try to retell it in English.

Teacher: Which part of the movie that you like the best?
Alice: When Dory go to see her daddy, mommy.
Wei Xiang: I like when Dory go to look for Nemo and his daddy. (The part which is at the very beginning of the story)
Umeko: I like when Dory see the whale shark.
Germaine: The whale shark cannot see Dory clearly. It is so funny.
Jing Zhe: Octopus drives the truck.
Jun Yi: Octopus take the Nemo.
Germaine: The octopus passed out some ink and help Dory and Dory gave the tag.
Umeko: The part where the octopus wants to eat Nemo. It's so scary.
Wei Xiang: I like the part where the octopus pretend to be baby. It's so funny.
Shyi Yee: I like the part where the Pecky (the red eye bird) left Nemo and her dad on the tree.

Then, we moved on to another session for today's lesson - drama. There were about 18 children in the class today and we have about 6 different characters in the drama. As a result, I get them to group themselves into 3 groups of 6. Then, they have to discuss among themselves to pick a character - lion, monkey, zebra, elephant, crocodile and giraffe. Once they were done, I get them to just rehearse the lines for each character just in case some of them had forgotten what to say.

These were the list of the character picked for today's drama:

character	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
lion	Rui Xin	Kian Han	Wei Xiang
monkey	Jing Zhe	Kai Yuan	Umeko
zebra	Germaine	Yi Ming	Shyi Yee
elephant	Jun Yi	Shang Feng	Kheng Yee
crocodile	Er Xuen	Alice	Dexter
giraffe	Huei Teng	Yun Han	Angela

I narrated the story while the children come out accordingly. Some of them were pretty shy while some were quite good in acting out the characteristic of the character that they had picked.