Today Png Png rubbed his chest upon reaching the classroom. I asked him if he was fine but he vomitted and cried very loudly. Shirley heard that and came out to see what happened. She asked the admin staff to mop the floor while I washed Png Png. Luckily he didn't vomit onto himself.
Shirley asked if Png Png had fever, cough? She said we shouldn't attend the class if Png Png was sick as there were many kids in the class. I told him Png Png was fine. He vomited only then.
We did
1. Shirley referred to the insects list she gave out last week and asked tots which is the insect that has yellow wings. Bee. She wrote the word bee on the white board and asked tots to point to the word in the list. She asked which insect has long blue body with 4 light wings. Dragonfly. She wrote dragonfly on the white board and asked tot to point to the word dragonfly in the list. She asked which insect has 2 big front legs that look like praying. Praying Mantis. She wrote praying mantis on the white board and asked tot to point to the word praying mantis. She asked is praying mantis 1 word or 2 words. Png Png got all the answers correct.
Shirley said insect has 6 legs, a head, a thorax (equivalent to neck) and an abdoman. She asked tots how many legs do you have. 2 Are you an insect? No. Does butterfly stomp legs? No. Butterfly walks gently. Elephant stomps legs. How many legs does elephant have? 4. It has a long trunk. Is elephant an insect? No How many legs does caterpillar have? She counts the legs of picture of a caterpillar in the book. 16 legs. Is caterpillar an insect? Yes. Why? Because it's mummy butterfly is an insect. She said all these questions emphasize that insect has 6 legs, a head, a thorax and an abdoman. These questions are important. They teach tots to draw back to memory and relate what they know. So next time, when a child sees something, he/she will relate to what he/she knew
Shirley asked where does caterpillar live? On a tree where there are leaves. Who else live on the tree? Bugs, birds. Birds pick up caterpillar with it's beak and bring it back to it's nest to eat. Can the caterpillar kick the bird(action kick)? Can caterpillar throw leaves at the bird (action throw things)? Can the caterpillar escape? No. Some caterpillars have spikes, some have angry colors like red with black stripes to warn birds that they taste yucky, not nice to eat. She asked tots will you eat fishballs with spikes? No right. They look yucky. That's the way caterpillar protect itself from predators. Same for butterfly. They have eye spots that are not real eyes. When predator sees the eye spot, it thought there is a pair of big eyes looking at it and dare not to get closed to the butterfly.
2. Shirley gave a mini book, name of the 7 days of the week, the things that caterpillar eats in The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. She said get tots to narrate what happened to the hungry caterpillar in the book. Ask tots what color is the apple. She said normally tot will answer red or green. Ask tot can it be green, yellow, brown? What color is the cake. Tot normally will answer brown chocolate cake. Ask can it be pink? Tots to paste the 7 days in the week (can use the 7 days in a week song to guide tot but start with Monday instead of Sunday) then the things that the caterpillar eat on each day 
3. Sang Good bye song.
I added additional things to the cover of lapbook with Png Png 
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