Toddler !
"Our Master Piece"
In this activity, the children were given colored papers, glue and mahjong paper to create their art piece. Throughout this activity, the children tear the paper into smaller pieces and glued them onto the big mahjong paper. They co-operated with one another to work as a team to create a big colourful rainbow!
Sze Jie, Lucas and Qi Ming used their thumb and pointer fingers o tear the papers into smaller pieces and put inside the tray.
They used glue to stick the colour papers on the mahjong paper to make a rainbow.
They continued to paste the yellow paper to make the rainbow.
The children tear the pink paper into smaller pieces and put them in the tray.
The children pasted the pink pieces of paper to make the rainbow.
The children pasted the green pieces of paper to make the rainbow.
Lucas, Qi Ming and Audi Qistina used their thumb and pointer fingers to paste the pink color paper onto the art paper. They chose different colors to paste onto the art paper to create a rainbow.
Upon completion of the art work, the children sat down and admired their creation of the rainbow. They sung the 'rainbow song' with the teachers.
They sang, "Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too."
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Playgroup!
"Rainbow Mothers Day"
In conjunction with Mothers' Day, the children workd together with their teachers and friends to bake a rainbow cake.The children helped the teacher with the mixing of eggs, adding of sugar and flour to the mixture as well as with the coloring of the cake mixture. THey learn to take turns and helped one another during the preparation of the ingredients as well as cleaning up.
Chun Hian helped to pour the flour.
Micheal: "Look! I'm making purple!"
Edlynn: "One, two!"
Saifullah said "Yummy!" as he poured in the sugar.
Jian Wen patted his chest in excitement as the teacher passed the cake mixture to him.
ReeAnne said "Nice smell!" as she added the vanilla essence.
"Let's Build a Shelter!"
After listening to the story A Very Big Storm written by Emily Lim, the children discussed how the animals in the story worked together to build the important shelter that helped them to stay dry and safe from the storm.
The children then went out for a walk at the nearby garden to collect some dried leaves that they can use to make their big shelter. The children worked together to paste the leaves onto the umbrella. Teachers reinforced the concept that when they ooperate and work together, they would be able to complete the task earlier.
Sumi: "Teacher Mira, see! There are many brown leaves on the grass!"
Gerard: "Look Teacher Mira, I am picking the dried leaves!"
Micheal: "Look Teacher Mira! I've found a dried leaf!"
Mao Yuxiang carefully picks up the dried leaves for the project.
Kai Yun: "Can i paste this here?"
Look at the children pating the leaves to complete the shelter!
"Mystery Reader"
The children weere privilleged to have Teacher Mani, a PROFLAIR teacher, to conduct a surprise storrytelling session for them. She introduced the children to the story, The Enormous Turnip which showed how the characters in the story worked together in cooperation to help to pull out the enormous turnip. The children were attentive throughout the session and lots of laughters was heard!
Teacher Mani: "Ready? Let's pull! Pull! Pull! And they all fall back!"
"The Art Collage"
This art collage was a masterpiece that the children created together as a class. It is a big project as we also manged to get some of the parents involved. Parents were roped in to collect any recycled materials and damaged toys that were no longer needed to be contributed to the class s their primary materials for the art collage. The children sad and worked on the art collage together for almost a week, starting with painting on the board followed by pasting of the recycled materials as well as damged toys.
Dean: " see Teacher Nani! I pate 3 bottle caps!"
Tian Yi took the paers and pasted them on the collage.
Ree Ann: "Look Katelynn! I have glue on my fingers!"
Tian Shuo: " I want the big egg carton!"
Xin Yao took the broad beans from the bowl, dipped them into the glue before pasting it on the collage.
Eureka held the brush and started painting across the collage.
Jia Ling: "I'm squeezing the bottle!"
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NURSERY!
KIDS IN-CHARGE 2012
For this year’s Kidz-in-Charge, the
children were introduced to the term “Cooperation” where they learnt and
understood the meaning of cooperation through different activities conducted
outdoors as well as in the classroom. A book called “A Very Big Storm” was
introduced and read to them. Through discussions held in the classroom,
children were able to tell what they understood by the word “Cooperation”.
This year’s Kidz-in-Charge also gave
an opportunity for the parents to participate in storytelling sessions on
“Cooperation”. Children created different artworks which symbolized the meaning
of “Cooperation”. During the implementation of these activities, children were
paired up to help them understand the meaning of cooperation as they worked
together to complete their artwork.
Let me bring you the journey of the
children before the actual day of Kidz-In-Charge.
Firstly, we had parents as the
mystery readers coming to the centre to do a storytelling session with the
children on the book “Cooperation”. We
had parents, Miss Liu and Mrs Lim whom brought their own books and created
their own props for their storytelling. Children were seen enjoying themselves and
engrossed during the storytelling session. Each of them was excited to answer
the questions asked by the parents.
Before Miss Liu began to read the
book, she asked the children to guess what a turnip was. When the child was
able to give the correct answer, she rewarded the child with a sticker.
Children were listening attentively
to the story as she showed to the children every pages of the book. The
children got to share what they knew about the story to Miss Liu.
She paused at certain junctures in the story to ask questions as she read the book. Children were looking forward to answer the questions as they wanted the lovely stickers.
Mrs Lim brought her own made props to the class
to do the storytelling. Before she began, she showed a blue fish for the
children to make a guess on what the story could be about.
At the end of the session, the children wanted to
see and touch the props that Mrs Lim has created. They really loved the props
that were
used in the storytelling.
Next, the
children did the ‘Swimmy Fish’. In
this activity, the children were asked to paint the fish creatively using a
cotton bud after the story entitled “Swimmy Fish” was being read to them. They
could choose the different coloured paints provided to them and painted the
fish beautifully.
At the end
of this activity, the fishes were combined together to form a ‘Big Fish’ just
like how all the tiny fishes got together to form a big fish in the story. They
understood that teamwork was needed to accomplish a certain task.
Moving on to the next
activity, the children were paired up with their partner to create hands
printing collage where they worked together to create their masterpiece. They
were seen discussing on how to place their hands on the drawing paper.
Apart of
creating their own masterpiece, they had game which taught them about
“Cooperation”. This activity is called “Assemble the square”. In this activity,
the children were divided into groups of 6. Each one would have the shape with
a number. They need to work as a team to form a square.
Finally, the children did a
‘Handprint Rainbow’. Children were happy and excited to show their hands that
were painted with different colours to their peers. Each group would share
about their understanding on “Co-operation”.
We need everyone to help in cooperation. - Regina
Cooperation is about doing work together. - Eugin Mah
Cooperation is helping one another - Eugin Mah
Cooperation is about teamwork - Syed Muhsyane
Children can help by making a big shelter together - Chryzen
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Kindergarten 1 !
One, two, three! Coopaliciouz!
Cooperation is defined as the act of working together towards a common goal or purpose.
For Kidz-In-Charge 2012, children learnt about being cooperative with others, working together as a team, working together in pairs and helping one another to achieve common goals. They learnt the concept of cooperation through reading and listening to stories read to them by some mystery readers.
Who were these mysterious mystery readers?
Teacher Christine
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| This was Yu Le's mummy! She was using the Interactive Whiteboard as an alternative to read the book "Stone Soup" as the original book was too small for large group reading. With the enlarged pictures of the story, children were much more interested to listen to the story! |
This was Mo Lao Shi's friend who was also a teacher from another preschool. She was reading a Chinese storybook related to the theme on cooperation. Children were very responsive throughout the whole storytelling session. Thumbs up! :P
Now that they have learnt about the meaning of cooperation and the ways to demonstrate cooperation to others, they were ready to put what they have learnt into action!
The Three-Legged Race
Children were discussing with their partners on strategies to win the race. They were really working together! :)
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| Rakin and Jia Xi were winning the race. |
Oh! Let's head back to the starting point!
They were really enjoying this outdoor activity very much. As a suggestion, parents can conduct this activity with your children too! :)
Balancing the Ball
In this activity, the rule of the game is to balance the ball with a partner just by using the forehead while walking towards the finishing point. It was no easy task but the children never gave up!
Ocean and Yanxi both enjoying the game. :)
Lu Young and Dion seemed to be concentrating a lot on the ball. Hmm..
Next up, Fang Fei and Dillon! With the difference in their heights, were they able to make it? Yes of course! :P
Ya An and Siyuan were slowly walking towards the finishing line as they were determined not to let the ball drop.
Remember the Coopaliciouz dance? Here, the children were busy learning the steps to the dance. They really enjoyed it and even told the teacher to repeat the video.
Making Jewellery
In this activity, children worked together to design their own necklaces and crowns. They used different strips of coloured paper and joined them together to make their desired creation.
Sze Hui and Yamone were working together to make a very long necklace.
Ya An and Cedric were gluing the ends of the strips of paper together to make a necklace too!
Yanxi and Tiffany gave each other a "high five" after they have successfully finished making their necklace! That's the spirit children! :P
Making Shelter
(inspired by the book "A Very Big Storm")
Inspired by the story "A Very Big Storm" where all the animals worked together to build a shelter, children also decided to make their own 2D shelter together with a friend and they really made beautiful shelters using their own creativity!
Princess and Angel worked together to make a castle-like shelter. Look at how pretty their shelter was!
Rakin said he wanted to place a chair in his shelter. Xander on the other hand, was quietly thinking of what other materials to add for the shelter.
Jia Xi and Raiden did not even utter a word as they were fully concentrating on designing their shelter together!
Wen Xin and Shi Tian agreed that they wanted their shelter where all the princesses could hide in! How adorable right? :)
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幼儿合作性的培养
为了培养幼儿在集体生活中，能与他人团结、友爱、互助、合作的精神。因此，学校特别设计以合作为主题的活动来增强幼儿合作的意识。例如：邀请部分家长或教育界的同行来园讲述一些合作性的童话故事（如：《拔萝卜》、《老牛拉车》等）。老师还在课程活动中组织了一些相关的活动（如：美劳、游戏、角色表演等）。
希望通过这些活动，能使幼儿体会到合作的快乐、懂得合作的重要性！
以下就是幼儿的合作活动例子：
这是一位受邀进园的家长，她正在为幼儿讲诉《老牛拉车》的故事，在讲述的过程中并融入了一些相关的教具；而此时的幼儿正得听津津有味！
在复述故事的同时，这位讲故事的家长并根据故事内容提出了相关的问题，而幼儿们也踊跃的举手回答问题。
这位叫嘉熙的小朋友争取到了回答的机会，并正确的回答出：“牛伯伯是因为有很多朋友的帮忙，才能将车拉过桥的。”“是的。因为大家互相合作，才能将事情办好！”这位家长针对故事作了总结。
这位妈妈在讲《拔萝卜》的故事。幼儿们认真地聆听，也争取回答相关的问题。此时，刘芳菲正在回答：“老爷爷拔不出大萝卜，老奶奶、小姑娘好多人帮他，才拔出来的。”“是的，人多力量大，大家互相帮忙，就能事情做好。你们看，他们帮助了老爷爷，大家也很快乐！”这位妈妈说道。最后，大家还一起欢唱《拔萝卜》。
“火车开过来了，嘉熙。我们快把手举高高的，他们要穿过了。”正在扮演高山的杨政对同伴说道。“好的！”嘉熙回答着。两人努力地把手举得高高的。
大家在子成的带领下，一边开火车，一边念儿歌：“弟弟开着小火车，嘟、嘟、嘟,······。”火车在教室里穿梭着。
幼儿们听完了《三只小猪》的故事后，知道了三只小猪分工合作打败了大灰狼，从此以后快乐地住在一起。所以大家也共同合作，为小猪们建一间更大的砖房子。瞧。他们正在分工合作，努力地建造房子。
活动正在进行中，这时的思淇和诗卉她们说：“莫老师，我们剪完了，也把屋顶贴好了。”“好，我看看！贴得很漂亮！”老师竖起拇指称赞。嘉熙说：“我们还没有彩完呢！”而身旁的研熙和Yamone正在默默地、认真地为砖块彩上颜色。
“我们帮小猪盖好了一间漂亮的屋子了。耶······！”小朋友们开心地欢呼着。“是呀!只要大家互相合作，很快就能把事情完成！继续加油！”老师鼓励可爱的孩子们！
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Kindergarten 2!
"What is CO-OPERATION?"
Reflecting on the theme of co-operation, the children used recycled toilet rolls and paint to make mobiles, on which they wrote what co-operation means to them. Teamwork was also displayed during the process as the children helped one another to put on the mobiles.
"Mystery Readers"
In mid-April, students from Lakeside Primary School were invited over to read books about co-operation. This was to create different experience as hildren of relatively older ages engaged the K2 children in group and individual storytelling sessions. The enthusiasm that came from all the children-storytellers and listeners alike, produced an enriching and hearty experience for all.
"PUT THE FIRE OUT!"
Following the story of "A very big storm" that was introduced to them earlier, the children created their own story on the theme of co-operation. The teacher facilitated the activity by discussing the characters and storyline with them. The discussion reflected on true co-operation towards a common goal of creating their own story. After that, they were in-charge of drawing their respective scenes well to ensure that the overall story had a smooth flow.
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