Melting

Easter eggs, we celebrate Easter after the Easter holiday. That's our tradition in our kindergarten. I don't know why, perhaps that will make the holiday 's felt much longer than the others.
I think it's absolutely right, till now I can feel that the holiday hasn't been over yet.

The 3's class were bringing two eggs from home, one egg is only the egg and the other one has already been added ornaments or drawn or painted or put a hat, etc. We are hoping that children and parents can enjoy working and designing the egg together at home. There will be a competition for that, we have  prizes too for the winners :)

The other egg is for the egg hunt activity . We hide the eggs from the children and add some more eggs from the teachers to be hidden. It's Ms. E's turn this year to hide those eggs in the garden and at the playground. Last year was my turn to hide those eggs, they didn't pick me up again for this year because I am the master of hiding eggs. They said it's too difficult to find if I was hiding it .LOL :D. (it's only under those dry leaves anyway....)
So maybe we still can find last year eggs in the garden, Hahahahaha.......................

After we finish collecting the designed eggs from the children and put those on the table for displaying. And now we are starting to hunt the hidden eggs. How exciting they are, just like hunting a treasure.
The children are walking around ,running around, wandering around, confusing around :),...................

It's very contrast the differences between a child who has confidence and a child doesn't have any.
A confidence child already found 1 or 2 eggs, meanwhile the other was starting to cry.
And this the time we have to guide them to find the egg.

After each of them at least got one or two eggs, we finish the egg hunt and go to our classroom.
In the class room, we clean the eggs first then everyone have to eat the eggs by peeling it first.

Just a few of them can peel off the egg skin cleanly, most of them were just complaining and saying that they never did that before. And I said,"If you want to eat the egg, you have to try to get rid the skin first."

Suddenly a girl came to me, and telling me," Mr.Danny, what happened with my egg, it's melting from the inside...!!"
When I saw her hand, it already got messy of egg york.
"Haha, you never saw the half boiled egg, ya ?"
"This is what will happen if your mom was too busy in the morning." Or maybe her mom was mixed up with her dad's breakfast egg or something.
But anyway, and then I asked her,"Do you like the taste?"
She said," I like the taste, sir."

"So now you understand about "half-boiled", so next time you can order the half boiled egg  from your mom." :)

I will be very proud that I hope in the morning my students can say to their mom ," Mommy, I want to order half boiled egg, please.." :D

Numbers, teeth and yawning

This is a review from the last year lesson, numbers in mandarin session in my class. The numbers are until 18 (shi ba).
When we start to begin counting 1 to 18, it happened that one of my students was yawning so big that the whole inside view of his mouth was seen by me. Well it's still in the morning, but I never dreamed of last night that I will see the biggest yawning today in the morning :)

"Wow Zio, you are yawning in front of everybody." He's just smiling while still yawning.
Suddenly I have an idea................................................
"And now everybody must count Zio's teeth."  I am saying it with my wicked smile. LOL :D. Because  I think this is a good idea for learning numbers.
"Count only the upside teeth." I continued. Because I was teaching them 1 to 18 only.
"Ok Zio you start yawning in count of three, 1.......2.........3........yawning........ !!! "  :)
And then everybody got closer to Zio and start to count his teeth.


" Oh Zio, you only had ten teeth on upside. And now I will open my mouth, and everybody count my upside teeth." I was asking.

After finish counting, they all said," You have 16 teeth, Mr.Danny."
"Why do you have 16 teeth, sir ?"

I answered it," Because I am already grown up, and anyway my mouth is bigger than yours." :)
"All of you will have 16+16 teeth later when you are big."

"And Zio next time, please go to sleep earlier at the night before, so you won't yawn again in the class in the morning." :)

1 = yi

2 = er

3 = san 

4 = si

5 = wu

6 = liu

7 = qi

8 = ba

9 = jiu

10 = shi

11= shi yi

12= shi er

13= shi san

14= shi si

15= shi wu

16= shi liu

17= shi qi

18= shi ba

Twins

Twin is a life's phenomenon to me, it's a gift from God. Every year our kindergarten is always having twins students. Any kind of twins, boy-girl or boy-boy or girl-girl. This year we have Steve-Jos twin brothers in K-2 and Claire-Cleo twin sisters in K-1. This is so incredible that we have double twins in a year, it's the first time.

Steve-Jos are identically twins. If we look at them, we can't find any differences with their body or hair or skin or face or the eyes. I often call one of them with wrong names. The only difference is a tiny mark on Jo's cheek that only can be seen on 30 centimetres face to face. Wow can you imagine that how difficult to recognize their difference ?
We have K-2 in 2 class, so Steve in K-2a and Jos in K-2b. When - I was teaching and asking Steve a question about something, the answers mostly the same as Jos. Vise versa. It amazed me.
One day Steve got sick and had to stay at home, I saw Jos was also a little bit different. It seemed that he missed his half. And the next day he also got sick and had to stay at home too.

Now about Claire and Cleo. When I look at them I know the differences between them. They are not so identically twin. Cleo has curly hair and Claire has straight hair. Both of them are in the same class, they are so dominant in the class. They are so pretty and charming. They got the same bright eyes and very smart too :). Had the same answer too in every questions.

After all they are just ordinary kids, can be happy or can be sad , can be lazy :) , etc.
I wish I have twin, it looks so much fun :)

But one thing I already learn from this, we may not compare them each other in the skills. Different person different skills and different characters. 

I think this year I must spend a lot of time with them to understand better about this twin phenomenon :)
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Helping each other

After a long weekend, for Easter holiday, we got holiday from last Thursday till Sunday. In monday morning when I come to our lovely kindergarten, I found that a lot of fallen dry leaves on all over the playgorund. What a magnificent view, well I guess I am the first who comes to school. I must start to clean the playground by myself before the children come.
Anyway I have to burn my fat from last week Easter holiday, my family was having a feast at restaurant.  We are visiting so many restaurants. I ate quiet a lot :)
Doing a little exercise in this morning, that's what I should do :)


I started to sweep the playground from the farest corner, I didn't realize one girl of my students , Jess, already come to school. It's still early, it's 6.15 am. That's really so early for her.
She's watching at me while I was sweeping out the dry leaves.
She asked me then,"Mr.Danny, I will help you, is that OK ?"
"Of course Jess, why not ?"
I was so happy for her kindness. She wanted to help me :)

Not in a minute, another student , Avel, came to me and asked me," I want to help you too, Mr.Danny."
"Ok, give me a hand then."

Another 1 minute , another students come. They just put their bags on their seat in a hurry, then running to the playground to watch us sweeping the leaves. After that they just grab the other broom and start to sweep together with us.

"Helping each other", this is the topic for this morning that I never planned before.
Now we have a crowd here that were sweeping the playground.

They didn't think of anythings, just go and help others, help friends. This is our life in a monday morning.

I guess I have to cancel my appoinment this morning with my "nature trainer"(the broom) for burning my fat :)

Yue lai yue xiao

My topic for teaching mandarin today is "yue lai yue da, yue lai yue xiao" (it's getting bigger and bigger, and it's getting smaller and smaller).
Although the weather is a little hot outside, and our classroom's air conditioner got a little bit of problem ( not cool enough ). But the children are still so excited about our mandarin session.
"Ok children, we say it together ... 1..2..3...." And all of students say it together," yue lai yue da".
After that I asked them," what kind of stuff that is getting bigger and bigger ?"
All of them said," a baby !!! A tree !!! We are also getting bigger and bigger!!! ........"
"All of you are absolutely right", I replied.
"And now let's say together yue lai yue xiao"
"Yue lai yue xiao!"
" And now what kind of things that is getting smaller and smaller", I asked.
"........................????", *silent* and they 're just looked like the audiences that start mumbling each other.
"What ??? Can you all answer it ? Look at surround you, and find a thing", I said.
"I don't know Mr. Danny."
(Hmmmmm..... I think it's a little bit hard to answer even who read this post have to think it very hard, am I right ? :)
And suddenly one students ,name Arvio, start to answer it. Arvio basically is a smart boy, but sometimes he is too busy to talk to his friends rather than answer my question :)
He answered," An eraser, sir." (He means rubber eraser).
"GOOD ANSWER!! ", I said.
Finally ..... After 5 minutes waiting their answer.
" Any other ??? " I asked.
" A pencil, Mr. Danny."
" Good answer too."
" Felicia ...." Luckily Felicia is the smallest girl in class. It's a desperate answer I think.
" No, she is not getting smaller. But she is just smaller than you."

And until the class is over, we only got those two right answers :(
Any ideas from all of you ?

Yue lai yue da = it's getting bigger and bigger.

Yue lai yue xiao = it's getting smaller and smaller.

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Numbers and sea animals , idea from Ayn Colsh

I've got the idea from Ayn Colsh's blog : Little Illuminations

What a clever idea, she used food bags for the media, but I choose to design it with computer Corel Draw and printed it out on hard paper. Once again, thank you Ayn.

Note : I put the worksheet in JPEG file, so all of you can copy and print it by yourself :)
Don't forget to print out the door image on the back of the paper :)

here is the door...................

So happy teaching...........................................

Smileeee........................ *click*

Today is parents meeting in school, all teachers are busy preparing for that. The meeting will be held after the school. We plan that while parents have the meeting, their children are waiting on the playground.
I am busy arranging the chairs for parents to sit. And I ask some children for assisting me, for telling the direction of the meeting-room to parents. They are really good assistants. Thank you.

While I was busy and also everybody were, suddenly I heard the clicking sounds from my back. But I ignored it coz I was too busy. Sometimes I heard it from my back, sometimes I heard it in distinction. And then the sound came near again.

When I heard the clicking sound for few times, I was so curious. I turned my body around as lightning, wanna see where it came from. I saw one of my students, a boy ,holding a camera-toy, "capturing" my pics.
I was standing at there without moving, like a big statue, and parents were also watching at the boy and me.
And also other students are watching at me and him. (Why suddenly everybody are looking at me ,huh...?)

I was thinking," Ahh..... let's be silly lah..." I started posing in front of the camera, with silly pose. The boy were just standing there, with mouth opened, not saying anything, already forgot to click.
I said,"hey, quick take a pic of me, I am posing for you........."

After saying that, I couldn't remember how many pose I had, and other students started to pose too with me and others. Everybody are starting to smile and laugh including the parents.

Haha, it's really nice to have a laugh session before the meeting.

The meeting goes well after that.

{The camera-toy was mine, I had it when I was a child. I donate it to the school 2 years ago..........so happy that now the children can play with it too}