Phoebe has been to quite a few English Speech and Drama performance. She loves to watch live performance. To cultivate her interest in Chinese, we enrolled her in a Chinese enrichment class in Tien Xia. It's not the best place to put her in because I thought their syllabus is a little too difficult for her and the class size is big, 9-10 children in a class. But still, we put her in that Chinese class for the second term, just to get her some exposure.
We did not know of any Chinese Speech and Drama performance in the past, so when I found out that there was a Chinese performance for children, entitled The Ugly Duckling, we did not hesitate to buy the tickets. The performance was in Victoria Theatre. The story was familiar but with a little more meat in the plot. Phoebe loved the performance. She was very captivated, except that she kept asking me what had happened. I had to translate to her all the time! Oh dear. I think I should expose her to more of such Chinese performances and activity to cultivate her interest in the language. I forgot to bring my digicam that night, so at the end of the show, the whole cast came on stage and they posed with the children for photo shots. If I had my digicam, I would have tell Phoebe to go on stage to get a picture too.
We went home and did a follow-up activity. She cut pictures of the brochure and stuck in her scrap book. She also wrote something about the performance. Of course, I had to spell for her. But I'm glad she is able to do a mini MLEA project. :)
We did not know of any Chinese Speech and Drama performance in the past, so when I found out that there was a Chinese performance for children, entitled The Ugly Duckling, we did not hesitate to buy the tickets. The performance was in Victoria Theatre. The story was familiar but with a little more meat in the plot. Phoebe loved the performance. She was very captivated, except that she kept asking me what had happened. I had to translate to her all the time! Oh dear. I think I should expose her to more of such Chinese performances and activity to cultivate her interest in the language. I forgot to bring my digicam that night, so at the end of the show, the whole cast came on stage and they posed with the children for photo shots. If I had my digicam, I would have tell Phoebe to go on stage to get a picture too.
We went home and did a follow-up activity. She cut pictures of the brochure and stuck in her scrap book. She also wrote something about the performance. Of course, I had to spell for her. But I'm glad she is able to do a mini MLEA project. :)
4 comments:
Which Tien Xia branch u went to? Xiao ci attended the k2 (aka prep for p1) at the kovan branch. She didnt show interest and motivation when going for the class. cant blend into the class cos they were already together for a yr. Thou she was all smiles during the presentation and during normal class time but i withdrew her after 2 and a half terms. Afraid that she will hv phobia for cl. I agreed that their standard is bit too hi.
i like the idea of watching a play and doing some sort of journal entry after that!
dash also went to watch with his classmates...and he seems to love it! cause he was acting out. haha. good to expose phoebe to more chinese performances. Sorry ah, no time to start with the chinese enrichment in my house, cause was crazy with my lazy bunch of p6, the 2nd head just told us we might need to set more worksheets for our p6s chinese so more busy busy busy.
Phoebe went to the kovan branch too, she's into her second term. I think we'll let her try cos no spelling for now, it's easy going now so no stress yet. I saw the nursery chinese class and I thought they're more suitable for Phoebe. haha :)
Now she's doing a scrap book. She does simple entry of maybe, one or two sentences but she needs me to spell for her and I ask her a lot of questions to scaffold and help her generate ideas... she's quite excited about it. We've done a few pieces of writing. Next time will show it her :)
No worries lah, kkf. I truely understand how you feel and mountains of things you've to do... unless we're SAHM like Auntie Sharon, it's really difficult to conduct the Chinese enrichment class.... haha :) My dream is also to be like Auntie Sharon leh... :)
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