The Consequence of not listening to Mother

For the Group 2 class on Saturday, the ever popular story of The Little Red Riding Hood comes immediately after Jack and the Beanstalk.
Everyone knows the story but we cannot stress enough the lessons that can be learnt from it e.g. not heeding the sound advice of parents, talking to stranger etc. There are also loads of new words [...]

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One, two, three Sta-choo!

For the Saturday Group 1 class, we are forming statues (Sta-choos). We all love a game of Freeze, be it A-E-I-O-U or Freeze Tag. Only now, we need to hold a specific pose a little longer.
The stories used for this purpose are: King Midas The Golden Touch and The Mysterious Giant of Barletta.
We will continue [...]

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Life after the Giant . . . The Snake Charmer

After the Selfish Giant, we move onto The Bewitched Snake Charmer with the Tuesday class.
It is the story of a kind and pretty Princess who fell in love with the music of a deformed Snake Charmer.
We started by telling everyone the story. Then we identify the characters in the story and working with the class in remembering [...]

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Friends From Singapore Polytechnic

The last few weeks you might have noticed some friendly new faces in our classes. They are all from the Singapore Polytechnic doing their Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology, “developing themselves as drama educators, facilitating the educative and personal development of the students and community through theatre and other modalities of arts (including visual arts [...]

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You Raise Me Up!

I had no idea how popular this song was with our Tuesday class.
Almost everyone knew the song and for those who didn’t, they managed to pick it up real fast.
We really had a good time, so much so that Ali volunteered to perform the song for us with the ever smiling Ming Fei joining in [...]

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Time to Sing, Sing, Sing!

It’s August. The Singapore flag can be seen flying from most high rise as well as low rise.
National songs can be heard playing from national radio and tv stations.
Very soon, it will also be the Getai month. You can hear different Chinese songs and upbeat music coming from a nearby make-shift stage.
The next season of [...]

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