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2009 September 1 ~ 6
2009 September 7 ~ 13 Song: My paddle is keen and bright flashing with silver Follow the wild
goose flight. Dip dip and swing. Dip, dip and swing her back flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose flight. Dip
dip and swing. To introduce the 'Moon Festival', we started with the story of Hou Yi and Chang'E. Story telling first and
then role playing. Story A long, long, long time ago, there were ten suns in the sky. Each took its turn. But
one day all ten suns appeared together. The Emperor Yao asked for help. 'Please help me to kill all but one of the
suns! I will give a pill, an elixir of life to the one who succeeds.’ There came Houyi. He
was a famous archer. He shot nine suns. He saved the Earth. The Emperor rewarded Houyi with a pill, the elixir of
life, and advised him: "Make no haste to swallow this pill, but first prepare yourself with prayer and fasting
for a year". Houyi took the pill home. He hid it under a rafter. He began healing his spirit. In
the midst of this, Houyi was called again by the emperor. While he was gone, Chang'e noticed a white beam
of light from the roof. She discovered the pill. She swallowed it. Immediately, she found that she could fly. Just
at that moment, Houyi returned home. He realized what had happened. He shouts: 'Chang'e, come back, stay with
me!’ But Chang flew out the window into the sky. Chang’e is now trapped on the Moon. She is alone
with her pet the Jade Rabbit and Wu Kang. Now, every year, between September and October, the Moon Bridge appears
for one night only. It connects the Earth to the Moon. During this one night, Chang’e and Hou Yi can meet
together. Look carefully at the moon. You might see Chang’e and Houyi. Poem Patience, patience, what
you need is patience, In the heart of your patience, you will find peace and satisfaction.
2009 September 14 ~ 20 Song: My paddle is keen and bright flashing with silver Follow the
wild goose flight. Dip dip and swing. Dip, dip and swing her back flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose flight.
Dip dip and swing. Review Story Chang'E and Hou Yi We spent some time outdoor to help prepare the surroundings around
the new house... dig some soil, classify the pieces of wood and clean up. Vocabulary used dring these activities: spade,
trowell, wheel barrow, dig, flatten, soil, ground, water, stones, work, hard... Let's go
2009 September 21 ~ 27 Song: My paddle is keen and bright flashing with silver Follow the
wild goose flight. Dip dip and swing. Dip, dip and swing her back flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose flight.
Dip dip and swing. Review Story Chang'E and Hou Yi We spent some time outdoor to help prepare the surroundings around
the new house... dig some soil, classify the pieces of wood and clean up. Vocabulary used dring these activities: spade,
trowell, wheel barrow, dig, flatten, soil, ground, water, stones, work, hard... Let's go Game: 'Guess where the pill is.'
In my right hand or my left hand? Spelling and memorizing the spelling of these two words. right, left.
2009 September 28 ~ October 4 Song: My
paddle is keen and bright flashing with silver Follow the wild goose flight. Dip dip and swing. Dip, dip and swing her
back flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose flight. Dip dip and swing. Story: The old man, his son and the donkey. The
Moon Festival is coming soon. Let's go to the market. Let's sell the donkey. The old man wants to sell his donkey. The
old man and his son tie the donkey onto a stick and carry it together. They walk to the market. They meet an old man. He
says. Hahaha! You see! Did you see? This old man and his son carry the donkey. This is a donkey. Why don't you let it walk? And
the old man says: Well, let's do it. And he unties the donkey and lets it walk. They walk to the market. They meet two
old ladies. They say: Hahaha! You see! Did you see? This old man and his son walk next to the donkey. This old man is so
tired. Why don't you ride the donkey? And the old man says: Well, let's do it. He climbs and rides the donkey. They
walk tot he market. They meet three young men. They say: Hahaha! You see! Did you see? This old man is riding the donkey
and his son is walking. The son is so tired. Why don't you ride the donkey too? And the old man says: Well, let's do it.
His son climbs and rides the donkey. They walk to the market. They meet four young ladies. They say: Hahaha! You see! Did
you see? This old mand and his son ride the donkey. Poor little donkey. It must be exhausted. Why don't you carry it? And
the old man says: Enough is enough! And they all walk to the market. Moral: It's impossible to please everybody. Practice
short presentations. I am an old man. I have one wife. I have two sons. I have three daughters. I have four brothers. I
have five sisters. I was born in Taichung. I live in Taiwan ROC. + Individual practice: I am Kevin.
I have one sister and one brother. ... + Mouth to ear practice with random sentence patterns Game. Can you tell me what
you are doing? One student stands in the middle of the circle and mimes some actions. Other students guess what he/she
is doing. Teacher Oliver gives the English translation. Vocabulary learned during this game: jumping, throwing the ball,
swimming, ...
2009 October 5 ~ 11
Review story of 'The old man,
his son and the donkey.' Poem: The silver rain, the shining sun, the fields where scarlet poppies run, And all the
ripples of the wheat are in the bread that we do eat. So when we sit for every meal, and say our grace, we always feel
That we are eating rain and sun, and fields where scarlet poppies run. Activity: Find the verbs, practice run >
running, eat > eating, fel > feeling... Game: Can you tell me, can you tell me what Teacher Oliver is doing? Teacher
Oliver is running. Song/Game: Clap, clap, clap your hands as slowly as you can. Clap, clap, clap your hands as quickly
as you can.
2009 October 12 ~ 18
Review story of 'The old man,
his son and the donkey.' Poem: The silver rain, the shining sun, the fields where scarlet poppies run, And all the
ripples of the wheat are in the bread that we do eat. So when we sit for every meal, and say our grace, we always feel
That we are eating rain and sun, and fields where scarlet poppies run. Activity: Find the verbs, practice run >
running, eat > eating, fel > feeling... Game: Can you tell me, can you tell me what Teacher Oliver is doing? Teacher
Oliver is running. Song/Game: Clap, clap, clap your hands as slowly as you can. Clap, clap, clap your hands as quickly
as you can.
2009 October 19 ~ 25
Poem: The silver rain, the shining sun, the fields where
scarlet poppies run, And all the ripples of the wheat are in the bread that we do eat. So when we sit for every meal,
and say our grace, we always feel That we are eating rain and sun, and fields where scarlet poppies run. Activity:
Find the verbs, practice run > running, eat > eating, fel > feeling... Game: Can you tell me, can you tell
me what Teacher Oliver is doing? Teacher Oliver is running. Song/Game: Clap, clap, clap your hands as slowly as you
can. Clap, clap, clap your hands as quickly as you can. Poem: Round the clock the hours go, sometimes fast, sometimes
slow. Tell me what the two hands say, they tell you the time of day. Game: What do you do at 10 o'clock? 11 o'clock?
12 o'clock?... Vocabulary: morning, afternoon, evening Poem: The days of the week are seven in a row. The
days of the week, how quickly they go. Vocabulary: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday... Poem: Thirty
days have September, April, June and November, All the others have 31, except February alone. Poem: Apple, peach,
pear, plum, when does your birthday come? January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, December...
2009 October 26 ~ November 1
Poem: Round the clock, the hours go, Sometimes fast,
sometimes slow, Tell me what the two hands say, They tell you the time of day.
Activity: What time is it? It is 1 o'clock. It is 2.10...
Dialogue: What do you do at 3 o'clock in the morning? in
the afternoon? Draw a clock. Count the minutes.
Activity: There are 60 seconds in one minute. There
are 60 minutes in one hour. There 24 hours in one day. There are 7 days in a week. There are 365 days in one year. There
are 4 seasons in one year. There are 100 years in one century.
Activity: Twelve children together are we, merry and bright
as you can see. Twelve children hand in hand, in one circle here we stand.
So 12 = 1 x 12, 12 = 2 x 6, 12 / 1 = 12, 12 / 2 = 6... Poem: Apple,
peach, pear, plum, when does your birthday come? January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, December...
Dialogue: My birthday is in January, February, March...
2009 November 2 ~ 8
Poem: Round the clock, the hours go, Sometimes fast,
sometimes slow, Tell me what the two hands say, They tell you the time of day. + Writing on the blackboard.
Activity: What time is it? It is 1 o'clock. It is 2.10...
Dialogue: What do you do at 3 o'clock in the morning? in
the afternoon? Draw a clock. Count the minutes.
Activity: There are 60 seconds in one minute. There
are 60 minutes in one hour. There 24 hours in one day. There are 7 days in a week. There are 365 days in one year. There
are 4 seasons in one year. There are 100 years in one century.
Activity: Twelve children together are we, merry and bright
as you can see. Twelve children hand in hand, in one circle here we stand.
So 12 = 1 x 12, 12 = 2 x 6, 12 / 1 = 12, 12 / 2 = 6... Poem: Apple,
peach, pear, plum, when does your birthday come? January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, December...
Dialogue: My birthday is in January, February, March...
2009 November
9 ~ 15
Poem
Now it is
November, Trees are nearly bare;
Red, gold
and brown leaves Scatter everywhere.
Busy are
all creatures, Winter food to hide,
Nests to
make all cozy, Warm and safe inside.
+ Writing
on the blackboard.
Poem: The
full stop:
I am the
full stop, I like to rest.
All sentences
stop at my request.
Read loudly
a story book and ask students to count how many full stops.
Story: Where
is the snow rabbit?
Pictionary
Game. Teacher or one student draws something one line at a time. Students have to guess what it is.
2009 November
16 ~ 22
Review poem:
Now it is
November, Trees are nearly bare;…
+ Writing
on the blackboard.
Poem: The
Question Mark:
I want to
know.
What is
your name? How old are you? What are you doing?
Where are
you from? What is that? What is this?
Read loudly
a story book and ask students to count how many question marks.
Story: Where
is the snow rabbit?
Pictionary
Game. Teacher or one student draws something one line at a time. Students have to guess what it is.
2009 November
23 ~ 29
Review poem:
Now it is
November. Trees are nearly bare…
+ Writing
on the blackboard.
Introduction
to the exclamation point:
Woo! Hurray!
Wait! I’m here! I’m there! Look!
Whatever
the excitement is, I am the exclamation point.
+ Add full
stops, question marks and exclamation points at random to the poem and read it.
Read loudly
a story book and ask students to count how many full stops, question marks and exclamation points.
Reading
parts of Georges Washington, Michael Jordan and some Taiwanese fables.
+ Game:
match questions and answers.
2009 November 30 ~ December 6
> Poem to introduce the topic of architecture
Up in cities, down on farms,
In bungalows, basements, buses and barns,
In cottages, castles, caravans and caves,
Blown by the wind, rocked by the waves,
In busy harbors, perched on sticks,
In igloos of ice and towers of earth,
On mountains, islands, snow and sand,
Families together in every land.
> Story of the seven blind men to introduce some elements of the
house:
Seven blind men went for a walk when they bumped into something. What
is it?
The first one said: This is a spout.
The second one said: This is the foundation.
The third one said: This is a window.
The fourth one said: This is a door knob.
The fifth one said: This is a door.
The sixth one said: This is the roof.
The seventh one went from end to end, from the bottom to top, from
right to left, and said: This is a house (or cottage, farm, igloo, depending on the drawing)
> Here is (name of a student). Winter is coming. He/She is cold.
I want to build a house. What do I want to build? Use the vocabulary above.
> Free talk: Let’s build a house.
Where do you want to build it? America? England? France? Japan? Taiwan?
Individual conversation with everyone about their drawings. How many
doors? Windows? What color? What material? How high? How big?
2009 December 7 ~ 13
> Review poem. Up in cities, down on farms…
Students listen carefully Teacher Oliver reading the poem word by word,
and spell the whole poem letter by letter. One line on Tuesday, the same plus another line on Thursday. Three lines on Friday.
> Story of Amy (Tuesday), Peter (Thursday) and Tony (Friday) who
want to build a house.
Vocabulary: I want to build a house. 5 steps:
1. I choose the location.
2. I dig
3. I lay the foundations.
4. I build the roof.
5. I build the walls, the windows and the doors.
2009 December 14 ~ 20
> Review the poem ‘Up in cities, down on farms,…’
+ Writing
on the black board.
+ Guessing
the next letter.
> Story
of Daniel (Tuesday) and Jenny (Friday)
‘I
want to build a house’, review the five steps and draw it on the blackboard.
Free talk
and discussion about the drawing.
> Walk
around the DaDe campus house to check the foundations and the frame of the house.
2009 December 21 ~ 27
> Chant, Writing, Dancing:
Walk around the circle as the Earth around the Sun,
Walk around the circle, now January's come.
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Welcome the New Year,
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Now January's here.
Walk to the middle and back out again,
Walk to the middle and back out again.
> Once upon a time, there were 2 people.
One lives on the beach and wants to build a wooden house.
Another lives in the forest and wants to build a house of bricks.
Let's exchange. I give you some wood. I give you sand and water.
How much wood? How much sand and water?
> Once upon a time, there were 17 people. It's winter. It's cold.
These 17 people have all different things. Let's exchange.
Dialogue: I give you this. Please give me that.
2009 December 28 ~ 2010 January 3
> Chant, Writing, Dancing:
Walk around the circle as the Earth around the Sun,
Walk around the circle, now January's come.
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Welcome the New Year,
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Now January's here.
Walk to the middle and back out again,
Walk to the middle and back out again.
> Once upon a time, there were 17 people. It's winter. It's cold.
These 17 people have all different things. Let's exchange.
Dialogue: I give you this. Please give me that.
> Make a calendar.
> Story
The donkey had a basket, a basket full of salt.
Across the stream, did master pull, but the donkey made a fault.
He fell in the water deep, and all the salt was lost.
This trick the donkey did repeat, but to the master’s cost.
The basket now was filled again with sponges to the brim
And when he did his trick again, the donkey found it grim.
2010 January 4 ~ 10
> Chant, Writing, Dancing:
Walk around the circle as the Earth around the Sun,
Walk around the circle, now January's come.
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Welcome the New Year,
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, Now January's here.
Walk to the middle and back out again,
Walk to the middle and back out again.
+ writing on the blackboard.
> Chant
Apple, peach, pear, plum, when does your birthday come?
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December…
> Make a calendar
> Story
The donkey had a basket, a basket full of salt.
Across the stream, did master pull, but the donkey made a fault.
He fell in the water deep, and all the salt was lost.
This trick the donkey did repeat, but to the master’s cost.
The basket now was filled again with sponges to the brim
And when he did his trick again, the donkey found it grim.
2010 January 11 ~ 17
Rehearsal for the ‘End of the Semester’ ceremony
> My paddle’s keen and bright, flashing with silver
Follow the wild goose flight, dip dip and swing.
Dip dip and swing her back, flashing with silver,
Follow the wild goose flight, dip, dip, and swing.
> ‘The sun with loving light’ verse
> ‘Walk around the circle’ chant
2010 January
11 ~ 17
2010 January 18 ~ 24
2010 January
25 ~ 31
2010 February
1 ~ 7
2010 February
8 ~ 14
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