Dear all
Hope you had a good break... This Saturday marks our 3rd session for journaling activities. I hope that you ( at least some of you) have learnt something or gained in some way through these activities. As Ms Tiffany had requested please do share your ideas and give your comments, through this blog ( if you can) or during the debrief sessions. You can also approach us personally if you want to.
Below is the plan for this Saturday's session:
MADU Club/‘Yellow House’ journaling program
Session 3 – 22 March 2008
Venue: Cafeteria and Classrooms
All volunteers to gather and group at TUCMC cafeteria by 9.00am. Groups
should prepare themselves for the upcoming session.
A) Grouping - cafeteria ( 9.30 am -10.15 am)
· Arrival of children
· Grouping & distribution of journals
· Announcements
· Groups to adjourn to respective venues for active
B) Main activity (10.15am – 11.15am)
Theme : My Story
Explore and Create
For younger children
The children are given a set of pictures from a comic strip. They then have to rearrange the pictures to form a comic with a story. Once it is done, they are to paste the comic into their journals and start to write dialogue for the characters ( in the ‘dialogue bubbles’). They children can then colour their comic strip. Volunteers are to help children to write the dialogue. Please encourage them and prompt them to create a story and to write the dialogue.
For Older children
The children are given an A3 size paper with 12 boxes drawn on it. They will have to draw a comic in the boxes given. Before they can start planning and drawing, they have to get the theme for their comic from the group leaders. Group leaders are to cut the 10 various themes before giving it to the children so that each one will have their own theme to draw. All the while, the volunteers are to help them with the dialogue and also the drawing whenever they ask for help.
Tea break (11.15am -11.35am )
Share (11.35 am – 12.10pm)
Based on the previous activity, ask the children to write a story for the comic that they have created( in the language that they are comfortable with) Tell them that they need to write the story based on the events in the comic strip. Your aim is to get them to write a story based on the given situation. Then ask them to do a reflection of the story to their lives (if this can be related to their lives) and ask them to write their thoughts in the journal ( can be done at home if they don’t have time) . Please do help the children with writing, as some of them may not have sufficient skills
Debrief session – Volunteers only ( 12.10pm -12.30pm)
See you on Saturday!
