Fun Library Activity at Miri Public Library

As part of our Reading Month activity, we did a reading activity at Miri Public Library for the public. The Library is an important building or room in a child's life. It is where he/she may learn to love books and reading. By incorporating fun library activities, we hope to increase the children's chances of associating reading and books with fun.

Miri Public Library holds children activity every Saturday, open to all children and admission is free. Children activity in the last Saturday of the month will be undertaken by a kindergarten or primary school on a voluntary basis.

We started off our show with 'STORY TIME' by reading this book :

'I'm a caterpillar' ~ Our theme centered on the butterfly and its life cycle.

Ms Norleha reading the book to the children assisted by Ms Ann.
The children learned the various stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.

We had songs to go with the theme. Here, we are singing 'Dari Ulat Jadi Kepompong' with finger play. The other song was 'Butterfly, Fly Butterfly'.
For the extension activities, the children made the various stages of the butterfly. The book was the reference. Here the children are making the pupa, trying to follow closely the colours of the pupa as in the book.

Shredded papers were stuffed inside the 'pupa case'.

The eggs were laid on the leaves. This boy not only placed the eggs on the leaves but drew the veins on the leaves, a detail he observed.

A parent giving the children a hand.

Parents came along to assist their children.

Making the butterflies ~ from plastic spoons and crepe papers. To decorate the 'wings', the children finger print the paper with colourful paints. For the caterpillars, the children glued together the ready-cut round coloured papers, the legs, feelers and drew the eyes.

The teachers gathered all the craftwork done and used them to brighten up the children section in the library. This is also a good way to display the children's work!

The beautiful wall display!

Thank you to the teachers who worked hard and spent extra hours to put up the display. May Allah SWT reward you all!

July Reading Month

July is our Reading Month. In our Reading Month, we planned out activities that would spur and encourage the children to like books; and become life-long readers such as story-telling, re-telling stories, making small books, etc.

Speaking of making books, do you know how books are 'made' - technically? That's the main idea to bring the 6-years old to visit a printing press to find out how books are 'made' as part of our Reading Month Activity.

The logo of PNMB - the children's version. Perhaps PNMB will find these drawings an inspiration if they wish to rebrand their present logo.

Showing the process of making a poster. These are some of the equipments or machinery that the children saw in PNMB. No, that's not a machine. The green rectangle is a door - now, how did the rest of the class miss it?

EYES CHECK

Eyes are very important, not only for reading. Checking the eyes and eye sight at an early age helps to detect problems and is sometimes one of the reasons why children are slow to read or have behaviour problems in class. This is another of our Reading Month activity. Puan Noor Aida bt. Sapiee, an optometrist from OFTALMOLOGY Unit, Miri Hospital came to school to check eye sight and eye problems.

For those who cannot read the letters of the alphabet, pictures of objects were used and the children were asked to match the objects. Here Puan Aida is doing a pre-run and explaining to the child to match the pictures of the objects.
Some of the children were referred to Oftamology Specialist for further examination and one or two need to wear glasses.
Parents - Please look after your child's eyes, watch your child when he or she is reading, especially in reading prints from a distance.
BOOK CHARACTER DAY
Another Reading Month Activity.


One other activity carried out was 'Reading Activity' at Miri Public Library for the public. The teachers read, acted out, sang and did some craft work with the children. At the end of the session, we used the children's work to brighten up the Children Section of the library ~ to be posted in the next blog!

Book Character Day

BOOK CHARACTER DAY is one of our Reading Month activity. We asked parents to read with their children, find out what the children's favourite books were and which characters they liked. On Friday, 29th July ~ characters from comics and movies, fairy tales, etc came to school. The children brought their books along to show to the teachers and friends.

Spiderman ......or Spiderboy? The Little Girl Who Wanted Balloons!

'Show and Tell' ~ the children talked about the books and the characters.

Boys generally love characters from comics and movies ~ Ben 10 is a BIG Favourite!

Girls love fairy tales and most things princess-y, so there were many princesses in the school on that day. Yes, complete with tiaras!

Here 'Princess Nur Farah Dania' is showing her book to Ms Grace and the class.

On the left is Sultan Alauddin Shah, a character fom a Malay story and the other is King Midas. Note the gold necklace on King Midas!

Khalif Emir Show and Tell with Ms Ann. The bottom picture shows Aqil reading his book to his friends and teacher, Ms Syakila.

The 5 and 6 years old wrote the titles, authors and drew their favourite characters from the books.

Here's what the children wrote and drew:

A different book altogether ~ Nurul Ezza'ty is a big fan of Minnie Mouse, came to school as Minnie and made a book about Minnie Mouse!

That's the book!

The response to this activity was overwhelming and it is not possible to put up all the photos of characters that came to school that day. The children were seen talking to their friends about their characters, sharing their books and reading them together. Even the young ones spent some time looking through the pictures or photos in the books. We hope that this activity will continue to spur the children to read books, to express themselves through drawings or paintings and open up their imaginations. Without imaginations, stories would have not existed! Of course, we thank our wonderful parents for supporting this activity.