We are Host - Day 1

Our class played host to 6 girls from Hangzhou, China for two days. There were 9 of them but only 6 joined us. They joined us for all the activities. Below are some pictures taken in Day 1.
Here they were doing a concept map for the topic light in a Science lesson.The girls also joined us for chapel. This was their first time in a chapel.

Racial Harmony Day

The school commemorated Racial Harmony Day on 21st July. The children wore their ethnics clothing on that day. I am always thankful to see how all of us, different races, live together in harmony, respecting each other religion and culture.

Thanks to the National Education (NE) team and the parents volunteer group, they put up a mini fair at the concourse so that all of us are able to learn and play some traditional games.
Here you can see Johan playing congkak, a traditional Malay game.
Ian tried to learn to play 5 stones.Raymond was playing kuti kuti. This was one of my favourite games when I was much younger. I used to have containers of them at home.... The children were learning some craft.
As usual there was a loooong queue for henna painting.
Managed to find the boys at the bus bay. That's Parrey doing his Shaolin flying kick...

Charis trying to balance on one leg and pretending to kick the chaptek. Not very successful. It's not easy! Hehee.
Caden tried too... He was laughing and trying to balance at the same time!!! =D Back to the concourse and saw Ian and Sebastian playing congkak.
After 40 minutes of recess, the children went to the hall. The NE team presented the weddings ceremonies of the Malays, Indians and Chinese.
It's not very clear but that Shaif receiving a token for giving the correct answer to a quiz question.
The theme for this year's event is 'Embracing Diversity, Building Community'. Let us never take for granted the peace we are enjoying now. Social cohesion and racial harmony requires constant effort from all of us. We, regardless of our race, language or religion, need to play our part to respect each other. =)

With the Silat expert

We were blessed to have Ms Zuhrah to come to our school to give the P4 a talk. Ms Zuhrah represented Singapore in 2005 in SEA Games to compete in Silat and she was the champion. She was the national coach from 2006 to 2008. She came to school to share with us her journey in this sport. After the talk, the children took a picture with her.

Art Learning Journey

The class went on an art learning journey to NUS Museum last Thursday. An eye-opener even for me as it was my first time there too. We were glad to have Mdm Yap SF and Mr Muzammil as our guides. The class was divided into 2 groups and I was mainly with Mr Muzammil's group and that explains why there are so many pictures of the same group of children.
There are few installations in the museum but each group only had time to view 1 installation. Children who were with Mr Muzammil that day were looking at the 'Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya'. Those who were with Mdm Yap were looking at 'Discordant Symmetries-Wei Leng Tay'.
Some of the artefacts have beeen mobilised from Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (NUS). A very interesting museum. You should go if you have not been there.
I am very proud of the 3 boys (Joon Fai, Sebastian and Isaac) who stood up and shared what they have observed about the paintings and their interpretation of the artwork. Great insights. I managed to sneak up to the top floor to see what the other group was doing or rather my main mission was to take a few pictures of them. They were so attentive.....
I hope all of you have enjoyed and learnt something. Another learning journery coming up soon..