4th Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival 2013

October is Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival! (PINKS)

So ORG has decided to participate in their storytelling activity.

We actually went to listen to Roger Jenkins!

 

 

 ROGER JENKINS (UK) who won the Best Storyteller award at the 16th Kanoon International Storytelling Festival in Iran in Feb 2013. He is a popular performer and trainer in schools, libraries an...d community events. Thanks to his spontaneous, comedic, and often participatory style of telling. In 2012, he published a teacher's resource book for moral education in two volumes (Juniors and Teens) and has just released The Parent’s DVD Guide to Storytelling. 

The storytelling was interesting, Mr. Roger uses different techniques and props and tools.

Our little children was excited and a got a little tired at the end as the session was quite long for them.

Overall it was a good experience!

September Ballerinas - (ORG)

It's (ORG)September Reading again, and this time

the theme is:

Ballerina

Who does not love ballerinas?

Especially young little girls,

they just have to dress up like one too!

We start off with a book about a Ballerina

who loves to dance and tries to be perfect.

The Title is:

The Not So Perfect Ballerina

Written by: Nicola Baxter

Illustrated by: Pauline Siewert 

After the story telling sessions,

we started to do some simple stretching.

Just a warm up for them, and to

learn a little about ballerina stretching exercises.

 

Well by the end of the story, we ask the children to pose like a ballerina.

We also did teach them the Plié and 5 basic ballet positions.

See how lovely they are!

Here you can see that they are happily practising their skills.

Tip toeing, jumping, bending their knees, etc.

They are having so much fun!

Now the little ones do the final pose of a ballerina.

Lift one foot up and gracefully put your hands out to balance.

The Arabesque! Of course they all need a little help there.

I guess this was an introductory of ballet to all the kids.

Also, here only Little Tiff started formal ballet class

compare to all, and she did help

to show the other kids what it takes to be a ballerina.

Good job to all, hope you all learn to ballet now.

Oh yes, We are celebrating the September Kids birthday!

Here would like to wish,

Little Miss Olivia, and Cher Ru,

Happy Birthday to you girls!

 

Thanks to all that participate and mommies who had helped!

We all have a good time!

 

 

 

 

 

Crazy with Staccatos

I am so busy this September, but nevertheless I am excited too

to share with you all what we did for our one and only Music CAP.

Everyone was so excited on that day and tired too, because we all had so much fun!

First we start off with making some simple instruments using recycle stuff.

We made 2 different shaker and a mini bongo drum!  

See how concentrate I am! I am making my own shaker.

Well, we use some rice and beans for the shaker,

kids will get to make it all by themselves! 

See what we have made.

2 shakers and a mini bongo drum!

Next we had a Saxophonist, Mr. Alwin to demonstrate and introduce the saxophone to us!

He was great in explaining the sax to the kids! 

The kids get to touch and feel it!

It was a great experience for them to see it up-close! 

Then Mr. Alwin manage to play a tune for us,

a simple Twinkle little star song, with Jazzy feel. 

Then now we have a Chinese instrument call Er-Hu.

It is a 2-string Chinese violin.

I have learnt this instrument long ago while

at high school and use to perform with it,

so this time round I just play

 a simple tune for the kids ~ Row, Row, Row your Boat!

This Er-Hu is made of snake skin and Horse tail!

The kids get to feel and touch it too.

Next we have a Ukulele, a 4-string guitar. It is own by Little Shaznia.

She and her daddy did a demo for us too!  

Last but not least we had Mr. Senji who demonstrate his guitar for us!

He also sing a song for us all to enjoy too, the kids enjoys the music all too well.

He plays different tunes and rhythm

so the kids can make use of the shaker

and bongo drum that they made just now! 

 This is when the kids play together with Mr. Senji.

They did go all crazy with shaking and all.

Me and my drum!

 

 See I know how to shake with my shaker/ Rattle.

 

After all those shaking and music. Now we are going to explore our own music!

Time for water play using different materials.

I prepare a few metal bowls, some pipes,

pots and pans and bottlesfor the kids to explore.   

Here you can see that they prefer to pour the water around

and get so wet! They move pouring water around rather than

explore on the sound. But it is ok too and pouring does make sounds! 

Did we all have fun? Of course and thanks a lot to our musicians!

Mr. Alwin and Mr. Senji Thank you. Both of you make our CAP

more fun and interesting!

The kids just love it.

 

Thanks again to all who had participated!

You all make our CAP fun and cheerful.

 

Pizza Time in August ~ (ORG)

In August, Our Reading Group decide to have a

Pizza Making session.

We are teaching the children how to read a recipe.

All the children are getting just a little too excited!

They could not wait for it to begin. 

Here we are giving out the recipe sheet and teach them how to read it.

Also here, introducing them the ingredients and smelling it too!

 

The kids start by spreading the tomato paste on top of the dough.

Here we have them spread the ham on top of the pizza.

Just love to see how they spread  the ingredients;

which they call it decorate their pizza.

Also one just have to try the ingredients too right?

See how I spread the cheese on top.

That's a lot of cheese though.

 

I love my pizza and see how I do it.

Lots of cheese eh, that's how I like it!

 

Ready for the oven.

We are going to get it baked!

 

Here's the outcome.

Would you like one too?

Try it yourself at home,

It's fun to make.

 

Thanks to all who participate,

I know you will love to do this again!

Summer Sponge Party!

Summer is here!

We had this summer sponge party,

so many spongy activities for the kids to do and have fun!

Do you like sponge too?

See what we do here at our creative playgroup!

Have a spongy day!

We started off with the long spongy art, all of the kids get to

sponge and chop all the different shapes of sponges around!

Over here we are not concentrating on colour but

more on shapes and techniques of

using sponge to make a print on the paper.

Time to sit down and cut!

We have the kids to cut out their own

Sponge Flower Bomb!

They sure loving it.

 It's time to make my sponge boat!

Here they are making their own

sponge sail boat that can float on the water tub!

Great for some bath fun at home.

 Look at my sponge sail boat!

 Last but not least, our final sponge fun!

Here, we have washing with sponge,

and playing with sponge!

*A special note: Almost all children love washing the dishes,

you all can repeat this at home to kill some time!

You just need:

A tub

A sponge

some bath soap

water

Plastic toy plates/ utensils

Apron

 

You know they will love it!

Repeat as often as you can. 

Look at how they play with their own creation, fun right!

they sure know how to play with sponge now.

Once again, we all had spongy fun,

the 2 little ones, you know who you are;

had a really good time sponging and splashing around!

 

Thanks all for participating, see you all again!

Mannerism July ~(ORG)

July is here again!

This time we have Mannerism for our reading group theme.

Potty manners are important to little children,

here we have a whole book about potty manners.

It is a very good book with pictures and

all the manners children should know.

Here is the book that we read that day!

After reading the book we let the children remind themselves

about what to do when they need to go.

It was pretty interesting that they manage to

remember the manners.

After that we played the manners card game.

A situation will be given and the children

need to answer what word they should use.

It is more like a Q&A session.

 

After that we remind the children about some table manners.

It is all about eating manners and etiquettes.

Words that the children learn:

Please

Thank You

Excuse Me

I am Sorry

Please Share

 

 

 

Glitter Bling Bling***

Here comes July again.... well, I have been doing this

Creative Art Playgroup (CAP)for a Year now!

So I have decided on the Glitter Bling Bling theme!

Come on, every children loves bling and me too of course. LOL.

We had lots of fun and here are the activities that we have done!

All children loves it so much and we had a blast.

 First, we all started with a glitter dough, the children start from scratch;

which is flour, salt, water and glitter!

They sure love the mess.

As you can see here, they are using the dough to press their hand print

for keepsake. The rest of the dough can make into

different things like elephant, lollipop etc.

and air dry it to stay in shape.

 Secondly, for the glitter art, we have glitter fireworks.

The children love to sprinkle the glitters on the glue;

they all have so much fun doing this.

I personally think this is the most interesting jar for them to make.

All of them could not wait for it to happened; they got so excited and keep on

shaking the jar before I could stop them to add in the water and the glitters!

Lastly, the children need a bit of exercise.

They learn how to hit the balloon and try to poke it so

it will burst off with the glitters and all.

We all had so much fun again.

I know the children love it through the look on their faces;

they were fascinated and happy that what they could do!

 

Thanks again to all that participated!

You all make it happened and merrier.