Week 3

Term4 , week 3, 2007-2008, March, Saturday. 11.45-1.15 pm
THEME FOR THE TERM: INCREDIBLE RACE
FOCUS FOR THE DAY: SUMO WRESTLING





SHARING:
The children start with sharing on the blocks about there favourite toy ,where after sharing their stories and ideas, as well as displaying good listening skills and sensitivity to each other they quickly go on to the warm ups.

WARM UPS:
Here they make a transport to take them to Japan by writing as well as experiencing a moving and speaking rhyme about a transport. We divide our selves in two groups where each one was making a transport. Jenny and me acted as facilitators and motivators while the children constructed their own rhyme. The rhyme that my group wrote went like this.

It is a yellow seat train,
It has six buttons,
One goes to London, One goes to Egypt.
One goes to Australia and one goes to America.
One comes back to India.
It goes chock chock chock and
stops in the station.
The driver is Shivam & Aditya
A good usage of language and excellent team work.

DRAMA:
As all of us reached Japan, I quickly turned into a Japanese Hostess and greeted them with konishiwa (hello) while Jenny put on a Sumo wrestlers costume. The children were in splits on hearing my Japanese accent. They all tried imitating me thus displaying a very flexible range of vocal expression. The rikishi (sumo wrestler) took them to doya (wrestling ring) and showed them the sumo moves. They got extremely engaged in the martial arts and its rules, thus , displaying a strong intellect and concentration along with good age appropriate physical awareness.

JOURNAL:
The very engaging class got over with a moving and speaking rhyme on sumo wrestling, where the children used dynamic words like stomp, push, hold, strong and fall, having experienced them in the drama.
I felt having fun during the drama allowed them to extend their experience into good language skills. It was heartening to see how even the young Aryan was at ease with writing a rhyme all by his own.