Visit To The Crocodile Farm

At the end of our theme on Animals in April, we made a visit to The Crocodile Farm in Kuala Baram. There are also other animals at the Farm, not only crocodiles and this is the closest that we have to a Zoo. The weather was sunny on that day. As it was on Saturday, most parents went together with their children. Thank you to all parents who came along - this will be one of the most memorable day for your children !

Entrance to The Crocodile Farm. The map of the farm and the animals found.
Exhibits at the entrance.
A look-out structure at the crocodile area. Children in the look-out tower looking at crocodiles below them. That's the crocodiles ! Ms Grace, Ms Ann, Ms Syakila and Ms Shafinaz with the children. As they went around, the children noted the various animals that they saw. The peacock.The mynah.Feeding Time - here the worker is throwing the chicken to the crocodiles. The crocodiles fighting over the food. Time to sit down for refreshments. After the break, the children were busy doing their reports of the visit...................... witha helping hand from Mum. Some came prepared with a book for reference - there was definitely a snake, fish, bird, bear and .......? Good job, Taufiq! It's a peacock! Busy ! Busy ......... saw turtles, snakes, fish & definitely crocodiles !

Theme : Gardens

Junior 2 did a theme on Gardens in May. One of the activities planned in this theme was a visit to Kai Nguong Nursery at Jalan Miri-Bintulu Road - a place where we can get ornamental plants, grass, trees, fruit trees seedlings, seeds, potting mix, soil, plant food, fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides, weedicides, pots and planters, garden tools, garden decorative items and garden needs.
The purposes of this visit were to show to the children the different kinds of plants (flowering and non-flowering), seeds, things required for growing plants, how to take of plants, garden tools and decorative things we can put in gardens.

We took a bus ........... Saying our doa before embarking on the journey - praying for safe journey to our destination and to come back safely to our homes. Group photo of Junior 2 Here the children are looking at the different kinds of pots and seeds.Ms Rajiah is showing the fertiliser and Ms Shafinaz is showing the watering can. How to pot a plant.Decorative items for indoor and outdoor gardens.More decorative items for the garden - such as water fountain, ceramic ducks, hangers, etc. Thank you card to Mrs. Lau Children saying thank you and good bye before leaving.

Study of Trees

Another activity was carried at Taman Awam on 24 May 2011. The children looked at the various trees found in the park , learn parts of a tree and collected different types of leaves.

Ms Faezah and children looking closely at the shrub.
Look at the leaves we found!

Sorting the different types of leaves and doing leaf rubbing.

After a hard day's work, its time to have fun ! The children had a very enjoyable time with their friends and teachers in the water play ground, Taman Awam.

Thank you to all parents who joined us and assisted us with the children.

Theme: DINOSAURS

Junior 3 went on an exciting discovery in the theme on 'DINOSAURS' this May. 'Dinosaurs' have always been a fascinating topic for the children and there were lots of interactive learning between the teachers and children, and with their friends. I bet the children must be talking a lot of dino stuff at home too.

The children learned the various dinosaurs, read up about dinosaurs, picked their favourite ones and drew them. In this lesson, the children did : reading, letters of the alphabet, names of different dinosaurs, hand writing skills, drawing & creativity ~ as seen in these photos (above & below).
These are stegosaurus made from scrap papers - there were lots of cutting, pasting and drawing (eyes, mouth & feet). Ms Ann exhibited them as their class mural. BAHASA MELAYU
Here, the children are learning their sukukata (reading skills) as they develop their writing skills, sentence making and facts of a dinosaur.
PANTUN

In BM, we introduce 'pantun' as part of our language skills lessons. There are many other learning skills arising from this excercise. In this illustration of the 'pantun' - you can see 'Pak Ali', some animals (which were drawn smaller than the dinosaur -concepts of size), and the dinosaur (big), and it's a sunny day with blue sky. The children learned writing skills, reading skills (the word 'kebun' Pak Ali is missing though), drawing & creativity, and 'pantun' appreciation. Factual writing in BM and illustrated. In the corner of the classroom, a mini "Jurrasic Park' was created. The children learned to identify and name the different dinosaurs.

A poem and illustrations - cute dinosaurs !

A group project to sort out the meat eaters and plant eaters. They learned that the teeth (see the drawings of the teeth) of the dinosaurs were different according to the food they ate. The children drew and named the dinosaurs in each group.

The children also learned that dinosaurs laid eggs. See the baby dinosaurs hatching !

The children learned that dinosaurs were discovered through fossils found. Here they used different types of pasta as the bones of the dinosaur.

Some of the books used in the class ~ factual and fiction.

OUTDOOR LEARNING

Some lessons are much more fun and exciting done outdoors as we did at Taman Awam. We had a picnic and to cap it all, 'WATER PLAY' ! ~ that was a very memorable day for us. There were obviously more space, fresh air, children developed better appetite, lots of large motor skills and social skills development. Walk, Move and ROAR like a dinosaur!

Sorting - size, plant eaters, meat eaters.

Picnic Time ...........

and FUN in the pool!

Thank you to all parents who have supported our activities and made the learning experiences a success!