LJ to Bollywood Veggie & ISH

It was a very busy week for me last week. I had to attend a 2 days conference at the Marina Bay Sand Expo and Convention centre. It was a good 2 days of education sessions and general sessions. I had the chance to meet a lot of people from the travel industry and was good to see some “old friends”.

Then on Friday, it was Anthea School Learning Journey to Bollywood Veggie. This trip is in conjunction with their English lesson – A Feast.

I joined in the LJ as a PSG. In the morning I went to the school around 9am as the children had their Mother Tongue test before the trip.

As usual I was tasked to go with Anthea class as I am familiar with her classmates. Unlike the other regular PSG whom are familiar with almost every kids.

We set off around 9.30am and reached the farm around 10am. The children were breakout into a few groups and followed different Tour Guides whom brought them to the different plot of land. The guide make introduction of the different kind of plant/trees/fruits to the children. It was a great learning experienced for the children, especially to feel/sense/taste the different plants.

About 20 minutes into the introduction, the sky started to turn dark and lightning started. For safety reason, the organizer had to end the tour and the children went to the bistro area for their snacks.

While eating the snacks, Anthea and her classmates were very lucky to have the Professor telling them the stories of those portraits in the room.

At around 12noon, the rain got lighter and we managed to board the bus for our journey back to the School. At the boarding point, Anthea form teacher had the children to say Thank You to the professor for his interesting guide for the tour.

Although the tour was short due to the rain but I had managed to see quite a variety of interesting plant/fruit. I am sure the children had enjoyed the tour and found it useful too.

A few of my friends played badminton on weekend and thanks to their recommendation, I got to know about Indoor Sport Hall (ISH) booking for badminton court.

Last week I managed to book a hall for the Saturday and we brought Anthea and Anders for their sport. Adrian had the chance to train Anthea in her badminton while I played 嗒嗒球with Anders at the side of the court.

We enjoyed the 1 hour of sport fun and both of them commented that it was very fun to play in the hall. With these approval votes, I managed to book another hall for this Saturday sport fun, let’s hope we will enjoy once again.

Her 1st Learning Journey - Harbourfront

Anthea is currently learning about different types of Transport vehicles in her lesson.

In order to make learning more real and interesting, the school organized a Learning Journey (we used to call them excursions) to the Harbour Front on Thursday, 19 Feb 2009.

The children are learning about – Ferry, Cable Car, Lorry, Motorcycle, Fire-engine and Taxi, just to name a few. So at Harbour Front, the children would have a chance to see all these different types of transport vehicles.

I believe MOE curriculum is trying to allow the children to learn more and seeing the real thing would give the children a better impression of what they learnt in the classroom.

For the day outing, parents were advised to pack a small bag with the following items:

- color pencils
- pencil case
- A cap
- raincoat or umbrella
- Water bottle
- Snack box ( I prepared a home baked pizza/ cheese cocktail sausages/ apple with a packet of chocolate milk for her)
- Tissue/wet tissue
- One small plastic bag

The evening before the excursion, Anthea was so excited and kept doing her checklist with me to make sure I had all the items in her bag.

I had signed up as PVG but as I didn’t hear from the group, I thought that they had enough of PVs to go along with children. However, in the evening, I heard from a mommy that they actually needed more volunteers. Next time I will write to the class teacher to check with her directly. .. : )

Anthea came back and told me that she had a fun day at the outing and she get to see all the different type of vehicles. She even told me that she had taken the cable car with me and my MIL before. I know for sure I had never taken the cable car in Singapore, so the ride could be in Hong Kong. . : P

It has been a good learning journey for her and I am glad that she had the chance to experience out of class room learning.