This month’s theme in Thanksgiving. We wanted to share some of the western culture with the kids, but we have to be cautious of how we introduce this holiday because “family” may be a sensitive topic to these kids. We came up with two activities, one indoor and one outdoor.

Preparation

 

Teaching Vocabulary

 

Activity Center: Throwing Pingpong Ball

 

Basketball Court: Capturing Turkey Feathers

  

 

Reflection

The overall event is pretty successful compare to last month. This time, we only have two activities instead of six, plus the activities were in two different locations, so the kids wouldn’t run to different places when they’re not suppose to. The competition between teams for throwing pingpong ball is really effective. It urges them to cooperate as a team and learn the vocabularies. The feather capturing activity was also better than I expected. The kids didn’t fight or run around crazy. The only downside was that the rules were a little too complicated for the them. The vocabularies chosen this month is not that challenging. Words like pie sounds like its mandarin translation, and feather sounds like “fly” in mandarin. The kids did successfully memorize the vocabularies.