Our school brought us all out on an outing yesterday to watch The Little Red Hen at the Alliance Francaise de Singapour. All of us were so thrilled with the fact that we're going out on a bus.
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Mummy took some time off work in the morning to join all of us. The teachers were happy because there'll be an extra pair of 'helping' eyes (to keep an eye on straying young children). Well, she's always a supportive mom in my early childhood learning activities though!
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Produced by this family focused theatre company called I Theatre, the play is about a red hen finding grains of wheat and asks for help from her other farmyard animal friends to plant it. No animal is willing to help her. When the wheat matures, she asks for help to harvest it, then thresh it, then mill it, and finally bake the flour into bread. At each stage she gets no volunteers.
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Finally she asks who will help her eat the bread. All the previous non-participants eagerly volunteered, but she declines their help and wanted to eat it with her chicks, leaving none for others. However in the end, as a nice little red hen she is, she forgives and forgets hence shared her bread with her other farmyard animal friends instead.
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Lesson Summary of this play - “HELPFULNESS - those who do the work should get to keep what they produced, show kindness and be forgiving towards your friends”
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The theme is very much specially designed for the younger audience. There was this nice & neat stage setup, actors were doned in very colouful costumes, engaged and interacted with the audience while the play is acted. There were a lot of excitement, humour and response observed from the young audience.
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This play attracted an overwhelming response from a lot of pre-schools and all 230 over seats were taken during this 11am session alone. Imagine the SOLD OUT news to their 40 over other performance slot.
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At the end of the play, all the children were taken back to school on the bus; some will be preparing to go home since they are half-day children, those on full-day will be taken for a shower followed by their regular afternoon nap.
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It was such a eye-opening experience going out with the preschool. As a parent, you'll get to see and understand fully how your hardworking pre-school teachers face challenges in handling the young children out of school compound; not to mention, the part about bringing all of them to the toilet and making sure each of them finish their lunch. On the other hand, by accompanying your child on an outing, you'll get to bond with your child and get an experience of what he/she learnt from the outing. It serves as ideas for parents too......an extra home activity idea!
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THE FEELING - Just plain Wonderful!
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