Oh wait! One super sweet girl gave me and Josephina handmade bracelets!
Back to lesson!
We planned to teach the song "Singapore Town" to the kids because we showed them many of Singapore's places of attraction which is featured in that song.
We gave the full mandarin translation and blanked out some words from the English lyrics and the kids had to fill them in in groups. That worked pretty well for the upper primary kids (also taking into account the large quantity of sweets we prepared for them...)
However!! For the lower primary, they totally didn't have any clue what we were doing!!! They just stared at us blankly like this>>> 0.0 we decided to change plans and just ask them to repeat the sentences part by part after us and they were still super confused. In the middle one kid even asked what was going on... Lol.
At that moment Josephina had a brilliant solution of creating dance moves for the song to teach to the children. And in 5 min... Deng deng deng... We came out with simple moves for the whole song. We were pretty impressed with ourselves. Haha.
But we were totally embarrassed dancing in front of all the kids (imagine the spastic smiling face). FELT LIKE HI-5 LIVE. (Have a new-found respect for the enthu hi-5 crew). Half the time me and Josephina just felt like facepalming. Didn't help that the dance moves were so cheesy/ literal and there was a happy teacher snapping photos of us.
The kids seemed to really enjoy it though. They looked as happy as the angmoh kids dancing along to hi-5 songs. Guess little children all over the world are the same...
4 classes down, 9 more hi-5 sessions to go...
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