I’m taking you back in time to the day before Luna New Year. The end of the school year was approaching so the kindy kids put on a performance for their parents.

I had the day off so I didn’t get to see the actual performance but we spent a few days before rehearsing. Here is some video I took during the rehearsals. (The video WILL take a while to download as it is nine minutes long).

The video begins with the kids reciting their story books. I have tried to edit this as much as possible to ease your boredom. Watch and imagine how bored the kids must have been memorising them in the first place, then doing nothing but reciting them for over a month.

Some of the books are actually quite difficult to remember. The first book is diamond starfish performed by Kandy and Julia. Julia loves to perform and they made up all the actions themselves. The next book is My finger performed by Yellow class (Irene, Eric, Brian and Jinny). I found this book a little odd as the finger is stuck up their nose!! They go to someone whose name begins with each letter of the alphabet from O to Z (eg Octopus, Queen, Zoo Keeper), to see if they can get their finger out. Talk about hard to remember, I had to write it down, and they are only five!

Then watch what happens when you expect two six year old kids to memorise a book about dinosaurs that includes such sentences as my diplodicous is a violinist, my ankylosaurus is a fire fighter, my stegosaurus is a vet and so on… It took me a while to memorise it so they did a truly amazing job.

Next the video moves onto conversation. These were written and taught by me. I tried to make them as interesting as possible for the kids to learn. Pink class (Danny, Jack, Kandy and Julia) are in a restaurant ordering food, they got to choose what food and drinks they ordered. Blue class (Amy, Rebecca, Jane, Cindy, Jim, Paul and Josh) are at the school disco. I incorporated the Hokey Cokey into this to try and make it more fun, notice how, during the song, the kids love nothing more than to bang into each other as hard as possible and fall over!

Lastly the video moves onto songs, these the kids actually quite like doing and surprise surprise it’s all taught by the Korean teachers.

The first song is the Korean National anthem. It amazed me how well the kids knew it and how passionately the sang it. I can’t imagine a five, six or seven year old in England knowing the words to the national anthem.

Next is yellow class with a song about Captain Hook being ‘big and tall’ and Peter Pan being ‘small and short’. It follows on from their play, which didn’t make any sense (the script can be found here), and as I refused to teach it their pronunciation is terrible, hence why it isn’t featured in my video.

Next is pink class with ‘I love you’ this was part of their play about Cinderella. Then blue class with ‘Are you alright’ this was part of their Pinocchio play. (I didn’t video these plays because they were too long).

Then Julia sings by herself before the video ends with a Korea song. I guessed the Korean song had something to do with the end of the school year. But the only words I could make out were goodbye teacher, none of the other kindy teachers spoke enough English to explain it to me!

VIDEO – Kindy performance – http://www.mediamax.com/j150vsc/Hosted/performance.WMV
(This WILL take a while to download so go make a cuppa.)

* Posted by j150vsc on 12/03/2007.