June – ‘Pop-Up Greeting Card!’

There is nothing more heartfelt than a homemade greeting card! In conjunction with Father’s Day and Hari Raya, our students were tasked to create their own greeting card; a pop-up card!

The exercise was to generate ideas, showing how a twist of creativity can add spice to a greeting card.

Before crafting we got our students involved in a small discussion of what images/ motifs represent Father’s Day and Hari Raya. Students then chose their theme from those shared on the list.

Learning Outcome: Pop-up card making, understanding motifs, exercise in composition, acting on their creativity and self-expression. Promoting 'making instead of buying'.

June - Raya 'Ang pow'

"Ang pow" in the Chinese dialect Hokkein means 'red packet" and is given on auspicious occasions like new years, births, birthdays, weddings etc. In multiracial Malaysia, this giving of "angpow" has been adopted by all cultures as a token of giving and receiving good tidings and celebrations. With the coming of Raya Adilfitri soon, Muslim children eagerly await the receiving of Raya 'angpow'... Little colourful packets of varying designs containing money.

The class today is taken through the re-engineering of an "angpow” envelope. The students learn to take apart the envelope, trace its outline, and expend their individual creativity to come up with a personalised design, then reassemble their very own Raya "angpow".

Learning Outcome: Use of re-engineering process to come up with a similar item, differentiated by an individual approach and creativity; so also having fun, honing precision skills and a questioning mind

June –the activity of Foldable Fan

Art expands children’s ways of exploring and expressing ideas in a structured and enjoyable way. Today, the class went through the process of ‘making art’; emphasising on exploring and experimenting with the infinite possibilities of different materials, tools and media of their choice. ‘Functional art’ was chosen as the theme for this week and our students were asked to create their very own foldable fan.

Learning outcome: Exploring and expressing ideas, functional art