READING WORKSHOP- KRISTA KINDERGARTEN

Objective:

The purpose of reading workshop is to encourage fluency and provide time to foster the love of reading and to learn about texts in a variety of ways.

1. Reading session:

Mini-lesson

A mini-lesson is a brief, focused, teacher directed activity done in an entire group setting. The teacher will use specific strategies through demonstration and modeling in this lesson.

Read aloud

The read-aloud is an activity which the teacher reads a book aloud to the whole group. The purpose of the read aloud is to model appropriate reading behaviors and reading strategies.

Independent reading and small group time

Independent reading is the important part of the reading workshop. During this time, children have to practice the strategies that modeled by the teacher in the mini lesson and read aloud lesson.

Shared reading

Sharing time is very important, we want to assess what children have and have not learned.

 2. Games session

In the game sessions, we will divide the children into groups. Through this activity, we want to train their observation skill, memory skill, listening skills, visual perception, concentration, understanding and thinking ability.

                           “Hide and seek” game (Galaxy English- red)

                     “Who is like me” game (Galaxy English- Yellow)

       “ Zolar and Zina loves to read” game (Galaxy English- Yellow)

3. 3. Arts and crafts session 

   For arts and crafts session we will give children some hands on activity. Through this kind of activity, we can train their eye-hand coordination, attention, concentration and also having enjoyment

FUN TEST (14 AUGUST 2012)

There are 3 stoves. A glass stove, a brick stove, and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which do you light up first?

11 AND 12 AUGUST PHONICS (BEGINNER AND ADVANCED), STORYTELLING AND READING SESSIONS (WEEK 2)

In our beginner lesson, they had learned alphabets K and L. During activity session, we guide children to make a paper visor.

Through paper visor, we can train their creativity, eye-hand coordination, focus, concentration and so forth.

After they completed their paper visor, teacher guided children to sing “wheels on the bus” song.

While singing, we pretend to go picnic and all children have to put on their paper visor.

In story telling session, we teach them to read “octopus” article.

They had learned a lot of new words such like tentacles, slithers, suckers, den, slippery, funnel and so on.

We can see that children very enjoy with this session.

After that, I gave them a spelling; amazingly, they can score very well in their spelling.

During activity session, each of them has to read the article on the stage, this is because, and we want to enhance their reading skill, confidence and also to train their expression on reading.

For our Sunday advanced phonics session, I guided them to learn about “months” 

(January, February, March, April, May, and June). 

They learn how to pronounce and read.

In the activity session, I let them to do paper visor. T

hrough paper visor, we can train their creativity, eye-hand coordination, focus, concentration and so forth.

While in story telling session, I gave them “octopus” article. 

It is a very easy article for them to understand.

After that, I gave the children some reading assessment. 

Where each of them have to read reader one story (It’s time to get a haircut).

Our children are only 5 and 6 years old. 

But they can read very well.

Great job children

Very proud of you 

papar visor is on the way

Our paper visor

Is done!

Reading on the stage

Relax!!

Our phonics advanced session

Paper visor in making

with their cup visor

yeah!!

Our fabulous reading team. 

FUN TEST (4 AUGUST 2012)

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX (3 AUGUST 2012)

What kind of dress can never be worn? 

LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX (1 AUGUST 2012)

What two keys cannot open any doors?

28 AND 29 JULY PHONICS (ADVANCED), STORYTELLING AND READING SESSIONS (WEEK 4)

This week children learn about the polygons. It is all about shapes.

They learned dissimilar types of polygons (flat shapes).

Triangle

Rectangle

Trapezoid

Square

Pentagon

Hexagon

Heptagon

Octagon

In the activity session, each of the have to sketch an object based on the shapes they had learned during the lesson.

In the singing session, they sang “hokey pokey” song. Most of the children are confused with their right and left hand side. But they had a lot of excitement with the song. They sang and played at the same time.

In the story reading session, I gave the children an article “being friend”.

Children have to share about their friend’s story.

In addition, I also gave the other article “television”.  After that, children need to draw a television with the scene on the screen.

Matthew, our cute student, he had sketched a very good picture.

On the screen he has portrayed her daddy and mommy look at the night view together.

In the reading session, children have to read one of the raffles story books, after that I gave them “television” article.

While in the activity session, children have to list down the advantages and disadvantages of television.

Most of them knew that television can be destructive but they did tell me that life would be boring without television.

The world of shapes 

Ideas from children, I just wrote it on white board

Matthew said: Daddy and Mommy watch the night view together. 

One of our good reader, he's only five year-old

AUGUST 2012 SPECIAL ACTIVITY (CLAY DOUGH CREATIVE CONTEST)

RAFFLES EDU WORLD END MONTH SPECIAL ACTIVITY

August special activity

“Things around us”

Clay dough creative contest

Date:                     26 August, 2012 (Sunday)

Time:                     12 PM

Registration Time: 11.30 AM

Location:               L4-86, Danga City Mall, Johor Bahru, Johor

Registration fee:    RM5 (Per Child)

Categories:            Category A (4 to 6)

Category B (7 to 9)

Category C (10 to 12)

(Each category will have three winners)

Call for reservations: 07-2272629

Or visit our blogspot (galaxyeduclub.blogspot.com)

(Please make your registration five days before the contest.)

*Please bring along your own palette and watercolor brushes 

Burger clay dough (sample)

August 2012 timetable (adjusted)

Beginner: 3,4,5 years old children (odd week 1,3)

Advanced: 5, 6, 7 years old children (even week 2,4)

All topics/ titles will be confirmed one week before sessions.

For reservation, please call our service center 07-2272629 (Ms Faiezah)

Due to August 2012 weekends time table clashed with Hari Raya, event and our special activity, so we would like to inform that we had made some changes on our august sessions schedule (only for phonics beginner and phonics advanced). 

11/8/2012 (Saturday) - Phonics Beginner (12.00am- 1.30pm)

2/8/2012 (Sunday) -  Phonics Advanced (12.00am- 1.30pm)

18/8/2012 (Saturday) - Phonics Beginner (12.00am- 1.30pm)

25/8/2012 (Saturday) - Phonics Advanced  (12.00am- 1.30pm)

There will be NO changes for For Storytelling and reading schedule.

21 AND 22 JULY PHONICS (BEGINNER), STORYTELLING AND READING SESSIONS (WEEK 3)

This week, we had few new students.

Welcome Elvis, Yu En and Yu Kai.

For new students, they had learned ABC and its phonics sound.

In singing session, we teach them “Hokey Pokey” song.

Through this song, we teach them to differentiate the right and left side of their bodies and understand some simple body movement such like shake and turn around.

In story telling session, I gave them short reading activity in order to assess their reading level.

During activity session, I gave them very simple spelling in order to enhance their vocabulary’s understanding.

They had learned about buses, Double Decker, schedule, chugs, front windows, passengers.

In reading session, children had read a story book- Jones and Jones: the case of missing shoes.

Each child has to read partly of the story book.

All of them can read, but the way they read lack of expressions and tones.

In the activity session, I gave them some fun riddles, but none of them can give me the correct answer.

For this first try, they had done very well. They tried their best to complete the task.

GOOD JOB! 

FUN TEST (21 JULY 2012)

What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX (20 JULY 2012)

If you count 20 houses on your right going to the store and 20 houses on your left coming 

home, how many houses did you count?

LET'S THINK OUT OF THE BOX (19 JULY 2012)

Which direction is the bus going, left or right?