Month: July 2015

Mrs Eio was asked by Em’s school Vp to share about book care & act as a librarian to issue out the library books to Em & his classmates. Hmm… Come to think about it… Em’s vp has great confidence in Mrs Eio that she can engaged the K2 kids? Heehee… Will the K2 kids be running around in the classroom when she’s sharing?? Lol. 

 
Mrs Eio intended to share 7 pointers on book care with the children. These are the materials that she prepared. 

1) a board (recycled materials. Heehee) with the 7 book care pointers (save the time for mrs Eio instead of writing on the spot)

2) half done book marks (the children are to decorate it during the session) 

3) A label for herself (librarian)

4) treats (halal chocolates) 

5) stickers & coloring materials for the children to decorate their book-marks. The session will be conducted at their tea-break area, mrs Eio’s not sure of colouring materials will be readily available. 

    

 

After greeting the students, Mrs Eio explained on why she’s here today. Em’s very excited. 

   
Mrs Eio set 2 ground rules before starting the “lesson”. 1) Everyone must listen attentively to their friends when they are answering questions. 2) Mrs Eio has prepared little rewards (chocolate snack) for children who can answer questions correctly. Children who have gotten the chocolate snack must give the chance of answering questions to their friends. 

 
Mrs Eio asked the students some introductory questions before sharing the 7 book care pointers with them. Mrs Eio brought with her one of Emmanuel’s book & his book mark made during his CL lesson to show his classmates. 

   
 
Q&A time! The kids were very enthusiastic in answering questions. Everyone has a chance & all of them have gotten their “reward” including Emmanuel. Mrs Eio tried to reinforce their good behavior by reminding them of the “virtue flower” practice from their form teacher. 

  

Some of the children said their classmate doesn’t understand English & another classmate can’t talk. Em did highlight this to Mrs Eio back at home. During Q&A session, Mrs Eio silented the class & encouraged these 2 little boys to speak up. We are all pleasantly surprised that they can understand her sharing. One of them answered the question softly but gave the correct answer. Another boy needed promptly & a little more help but he did well at the end of the day. 

   

Activity time. The children are very excited to decorate their book marks. 
 

Time to borrow books…

   
 
 

As a librarian, Mrs Eio issued out the books to the children. At the end of this “lesson”, she reminded them of the due date & thank the children for a wonderful time together. Thanks to Mrs Eio “PA” (her sister for joining her & taking photos.) 

   

Before leaving, Mrs Eio was approached by the Vp & em’s Teacher again to be involved in the school’s SG50 lesson next week…
Err… She really need to check her schedule as she’s running late in fetching El… We shall see.  😊

◄ Matthew 19:14 ►

New International Version

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Em loves this Encyclopedia. It’s one of the books that Mrs Eio thinks it’s a good buy. She bought it at a discounted price in Popular bookstore when El is not even born yet. 

  
Em’s been asking my sister to read this book for him & he’s been asking her thousand & one questions. He’s currently interested in the  states of water. So Mrs Eio takes the opportunity to show him a simple experiment on how water change from Solid to liquid & gas. 

  
Mrs Eio has been collecting egg containers recently. She’s still unsure what to do with them. For painting… Art…  Well… She can use one for this experient now so that she don’t have to wet the floor. 

  
3 ice cubes. Waiting for them to melt & by tomorrow disappears from the containers. Using post-it to get em to participate. 

  
Mrs Eio thought if she should set up a control experiment. But she just wanna do a simple experiment without much hassle. As long as she achieves her objectives & em understands, who cares… Haha! 

THE DAY has come! We did the implementation of “lesson plan” last night. The kids were all excited to start decorating their armour. At the end of the day, Mrs Eio hope the kids can have fun & be able to identify at least one item of the armour. In addition, the kids can decorate their armour, put on the full armour & take a photo. The photo is to help them to recap this topic with their parents back at home. 

   
There’s altogether 7 children in our midst last night but Mrs Eio will try to post photos of Eio Kids as it won’t be nice to post the other children’s photo without their parents’ consent. As the children join the activities at different timing, Mrs Eio amended the flow of activities. Some of the children started to work on the helmet, Breast plate & shield while waiting for the rest to join in. After doing 3 pieces of the armour & everyone has arrived, Mr Eio took over to teach the children, the different parts of the armour & the significance of them. After the children worshipped with 2 songs, Mrs Eio did a recap of the items that they had done during the 1st half of the session.

   
Part 2 started with the children decorating & labeling their belt & shoes. By then, the children were so excited that they already started putting on their belts, followed by breastplates. Mrs Eio is so thankful that there’s helpers around to assist the children to put on their armour. 

Mrs Eio & the other helpers gave out the helmet, Shield & breastplate after the child was ready. Assessment of learning: The children were only able to receive their sword & take a photo in their full armour after identifying on of the items in the armour verbally. 

  

    

Challenges😓

There’s a few challenges while executing the activites last night.

1) the children are of different age group. (2-8 years old) . Hence, only children above 4 years old are able to identify the items in the armour. Nevertheless, the children are very cooperative. 

2) some children join in the activities at different timing. Mrs Eio are thankful to the capable helpers who help them catch up & also lending a hand to the younger children. 

Things preempted 👍

There’s a couple of things Mrs Eio thinks she did correctly

1) the armour consisted of 6 items. The items were collected from the children after their have completed their task & redistributed to them at a later stage. 

2) the children were extremely excited to receive the sword. Mrs Eio is concerned that they will be distracted or worst still is to start hitting each other after getting it. So the sword was given at the end of the session & given as a reward for identifying one part of the armour (for 4 years old & above). 

After all the children had taken a photo of themselves in His full armour, Mrs Eio led them to close in Prayer before the children could have their refreshments. 

Mrs Eio thinks there’s always room for improvement. She’s now toying with another idea but not sure if Mr Eio will approve her proposal. Lol. 

“Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6:13-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Mrs Eio wanted to try this out since a long time ago. Hopefully, all the kids can turn up & they will enjoy learning about His Armor tomorrow.   
Mrs Eio included the use of some recycled materials. Eg. Using 2012 Tampines town council calendar as backing & holder for our shield.

  
 
A sense of nostalgia… Feels like Ms Chin waiting to execute / conduct the lesson after writing lesson plan & preparing worksheets/ materials for her students.    

  Are you able to guess what are all these for? 

 
Well… Travel back to the present. Mrs Eio is excited. This time round the class size is smaller, the kids’ age group is much much younger & the venue is at home. 

Sandals making in progress!    
Getting El to try out…

    
   
Of course, Mrs Eio’s target audience includes the Eio kids. Getting all the children to decorate & label their armour. Hope everything turns out well tomorrow. 😊  
“Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6:13-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬