We had 3 little friends absent this afternoon, but
it seemed a lot quieter somehow. Especially with the late arrival of some
children, we had to start a bit later than usual. It would be nice if everyone
could get to school on time which I know it might be a bit hard as lots of us
traveling a long way to get to school. The trafic could be bad from time to time!
The school is going to celebrate the Dragon
Boat Day Festival next Sat by making 粽子/Zong
Zi. I thought I better making sure my
all kids know about “Dragon” since we had quite a few new kids in class that
had missed out the topic in Term 1. This
was also to prepare next week’s Dragon Boat Festival teaching plan, and another
good reason to learn as it is the Year of Dragon.
I started class with the Dragon craft, and some kids had done it at the start of the Year. I chose it just out of my own interest to
find out how kids had matured in last few months, and how it might be shown in
their artwork. It was a gorgeous dragon
to make but it was such a tedious job. Tracing their hands, colouring them,
cutting the patterns out, paste them together to form a dragon. Children enjoyed colouring their own hands,
making different patterns as they were chatting along with their mates. And all Dragon were very different!! However Jo-Jo, Kahlil and Philianan the 3
little friends absent today were all part of our new crew!
As part of the plan, we reviewed the Dragon/龍
by my Taiwanese 2012 Dragon stamps booklet that has got a 3D dragon on one page.
The Dragon did impress all the kids, and they all touched it for good-luck! I
made up the later part, but all the children touched the dragon with excitement
and a big smile. Also I showed them a
Chinese calendar that’s full of lovely of dragon images on the different
objects from all the different dynasties.
We admired the pictures together and talked about it. I am sure kids know the difference about
DINOSAUR/ 恐龍(kong3
long2) and DRAGON/ 龍(long2)now. As they both are long2/ 龍in
Chinese.
I was going to show kids the videos about the
story of “the Dragon Boat Day”, but the broadband didn’t work. ^^..
So I played part of the DVD – The Emperor’s Treasure Chests, that I
purchased from the Palace Museum in Taipei early this Year. It’s such an interesting and detailed
introduction of the Emperor Qian Long’s mini toy boxes, I chose English sound
track instead of Chinese simply just for kids’ pleasure only. Most kids sat still in front of the pc, but a
couple of them found it hard to concentrate, maybe because it wasn’t animation?
We practised the 1~10 in Chinese today before
they started the Joint-the-Dots.
Children should have a rough idea about the square Chinese letters of
those ten numbers, and know how to recite them.
Also I printed their Chinese names out and asked them to draw a picture
of themselves next to their names. It
was so personal & unique! I like it.
I had them to build a Lego house of their own
when they finish their own portrait. Eventually everyone joined the group and
making their own houses. We then had the
Show&Tell time together as well showing the Lego houses built by our little
designers! Before I called it a day, I
read a picture book by Anthony Browne called Bear Goes to Town, and kids just
loved it!
Milla, 蜜菈
is the Chinese name I give her, they both sound very similar. Milla is such a delight to have in class. She surprised me with the colours she learned
from weeks before, not many of them but she remembered them all! She showed great interests in learning Chinese. She is so friendly with everyone. She loves PINK!
美娥跟同學的互動很溫和,
專心的时後很專心,非常喜歡寫字畫畫,她的畫都很有想法;但在團體活動中也容易分心,常拿起身邊可以拿到的東西玩,
或開始和同學聊天.
是個很有主見的一個孩子.
麗燕個性較穩重,
也很大而化之,
跟大家都好相處. 當她進來坐到蜜菈旁邊時,兩個女孩就和氣地交談起來,感覺很棒.
也很專心聽課,
有大姐風範.
文財很溫馴,
不太說話, 就用大眼睛聽和說和看.
除非我點他回答,
不然幾乎一聲都不吭.
但他卻無聲的在進步… 今天帶了黃色的ben10
超人來show&tell,
當大家齊聲跟他說謝謝的时後,
他露出了緬腆的微笑.
小五今天很棒,
雖然上課前跌了一跤傷了小指,可並不影響上課情緒.3個小時都笑咪咪的,
除了銘楷離開去party時有些不捨,但很快就忘了離別的惆悵.
沒有銘楷相伴,
似乎也不影響上課的專心度.
銘楷真是演技派的!開場時,手中拿著嘔吐袋臉色蒼白,害我都擔心起來.
爸爸告訴我他已經嘔吐袋拿了兩個星期了!會出其意,我告訴爸爸,我知道了!!
直到爸爸離開前銘楷都病厭厭的,不願意活動.
爸爸一離開,我把他左手中的嘔吐袋拿下來,擺在他桌前左上方,又把他右手中的超人玩具放在嘔吐袋旁邊,告訴他:我在這裡,我會照顧你,現在你先畫畫吧!
我拉起他的手來描起他的手形..
不一會兒他就談笑風生起來!
根本就忘了嘔吐袋的存在…^^
宇澤今天也是開心果一個!
天真中文夾雜著道地的英文,
太適合他可愛的混血臉孔!
太多的對另人宛爾的對話我卻只記得第一個,他用很多顏色塗滿他的手形,我稱讚他,好漂亮的彩虹顏色的手喔!
他喜孜孜地問我,妳也喜歡彩虹的手嗎?
但宇澤的注意力似乎不長,有時很快就分心了,給他一點時間再把他拉回來.
大家在做Lego
house 的時候,他也玩但沒做成房子.
當我跟大家說就要開始Show&Tell
嘍!
他環顧四周,只聽他說,I
better make a Lego house… 這才肯動手!
馮宇一直都給我像個小大人的感覺.
時而童心未泯!
上課的時候超認真的,反應也很快,認真到皺著眉頭聽課!但”兒童”畢竟是他的真正身分,
瘋起來的時候就原形畢露了!
可喜的是,
我的威嚴仍可把他壓下來..
是個講理的小孩.
話說今天他的書包落在家,所以沒點心可吃…第一堂下課只聽他振振有詞跟身邊同學說,
你們要分享你們的餅乾給我,因為我媽媽把我的書包放在家了…
ha ha