Merry Christmas 2010

Shawn getting ready to be Little Santa too early. When time for Santa to give present to the children; the pants were badly torn.

Say "Cheese, Teacher. I'm taking your photo too" says Joe Weng.

"We got you, Teacher. Now give us the Christmas presents."

Drawing on rough surface

The children are used to writing and drawing on smooth surface.

Let's try writing and drawing on rough surface.

The children's drawing turn out very nice.

Getting ready to celebrate Christmas 2010

So what do we need to celebrate Christmas?

We need Christmas tree.

What else?

Santa Claus.

The children busy folding newspapers (those seated on the floor) and cutting materials to make the Christmas tree and the Robot Santa Claus.

The end products. Beautiful ler!

Visit to Egyptian Museum

This is an interesting museum as it is a project by the children of Stars & Planets Edufun Club in PJ. It was a very good opportunity for us to visit the museum by children for children.
It is indeed inspiring especially the wall painting, King Tut's tomb and the pyramid. Walls and pavements made of egg cartons and card boards really create the ancient environment. We felt like we were brought back in time...the butterflies in our tummies & the wow feeling to travel back in time...(take a look at Jolin's fear-looking face...you will understand what I mean).
We really appreciate the opportunity to visit and must congratulate Jolene for setting such a good place for children to learn the interesting way.

Make things that float sink & vice versa

After learning float and sink; it is pretty easy for them to predict what could sink or float. However, we gave the children a challenge to make things that float sink and things that sink float.










This is the result of some of the items they came up with.

Leaves everywhere

The children have to collect as many leaves as they can. The one with the highest number of leaves is the winner.
After collecting the leaves; we observed how the children counted their leaves. Most of them counted one-by-one but two of them decided to arrange the leaves. One of them grouped the leaves in group of tens (clever ler...good idea)

After counting the leaves; one child asked "Why are all the leaves brown?" So, I gave them the challenge to find a green on the ground. They shook the tree and looked for green leaves on the ground but cannot be found. We discussed about leaves' ageing and changing colours.

How does the fish scale feel like?

Some of the questions pose to the children for them to find out:

How does the fish scale feel like when the fish is swimming?
How does the fish scale feel like when it is dead?
Is it easier to feel the scale when the fish is swimming?
How does the fish react when you try to touch it?
Will the fish bite you?

Light & Shadow

First, the children peeped through a hole to guess the thing based on the shadow. Then they worked on their own experiments with the lighting to get shadows. Tested with bright area with lighting and dark area with lighting. So which condition let us see the shadow clearer - bright or dark?

Look at my lantern

The lantern that I made on my own. Beautiful isn't it?

It is perfect for tonight's mid-autumn festival.

Jack and Jill Play

Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down & broke his crown & Jill came tumbling after.

The children took turns to play the characters in this nursery rhyme.

They did very well with their actions especially when Jack has to fall (all kinds of falling action they came out with)

Rainy day

We started talking about rain a day before. Then we decided that we should work on the topic of rain. The children brought things that can protect them from rain....umbrellas and raincoat. We sang songs with 'rain' word; we discussed about wearing raincoat, how to hold an umbrella, the types of umbrella, the parts of umbrella, etc.









It's not real rain....it's fake. Teacher Celine, the rain-maker is the only one who got wet.









Creating wax papers to test and compare the absorption / resistance of material against water.









Time to conclude and explain their findings. Each child took turns to explain about the wax paper.

1Malaysia magicians in the making

The hard work is in making the hat. It took them about a week to finish the hat before all the great magicians can show off their talents. Watch out what the magician can pull out from his 1Malaysia top hat.

Camp Out Day

We started off with mountain climbing (konon la...actually climb up a chair & table) then crawled through a tunnel (under the table) to reach our camp site. It's not easy to crawl through the tunnel with a water-tumbler in your hand.

Reaching the camp site; we setup tents. Some of the chores the children need to do include

• look for firewood
• catch chickens for cooking
• cut vegetable for cooking
• setup fire
  
• cooking
  
• find water source to boil drinking water
• boiling water
• keep the camp site clean
• they have to negotiate who should do the cooking and of course,
  
• we have time to relax and makan
  

Now... its your turn to match the photos to the things we did.