Day 2 : We don’t remember days, we remember moments

We had a whale of a time with the children on Day 2 !

Another anticipated has come! Early in the morning, all of us get ready and departed from our beloved alma mater, the University of Malaya. The children was jumping in excitement the moment they see us entering their lovely 'Home'again today. They looked more socialize and less shy when they see us today after a long interaction day with them yesterday.

      

Activity 1 : London Bridge is Falling Down

This is the how we attract the children’s attention by playing well known and attractive game. First of all, we guided and show them how the games work . After that, we make sure the children and us queue up in a line. Some of us play a role as London Bridge. We sing London Bridge is Falling Down together when the games begins. We witnessed that the children are tolerate to each other while playing this game, they did not push and pull each other like what we saw on yesterday. Their happy faces and real smiles while singing and playing clearly showed how happy they are. What a way to start the day!

Activity 2: 1,2,3 robot

To keep their energetic momentum , we play a catchy and tricky game which is “1,2,3 robot”. Before we started, we demonstrate the flow of the games. While playing this game, their lips shows brighter smiles even though one the rules of the games is “players cannot smile”. This is one of the cutest moments we have ever seen. 

Activity 3: Scissors, rock, paper

From this old school game, we really cemented the relationship between the children and us. They feel familiar and confident to talk to us compare to yesterday. We explained them the instructions and play with them patiently.

Dancing and singing

From our observations, most of them love and enjoy in dancing and some of them are really good at it. So we taught them several trending dances such as Baby Shark, Panama and Seaweed dance. We have noticed that the kids are usually spending most of the time sitting and writing and colouring all day. We think that lead arranging them a dancing session will be good for their health. The dancing activity being conducted at a room with television to show the steps of dancing. This activity lead by group 10 members who are good at dancing. They sweat thoroughly after dancing. It shows how passionate they are when it comes to dance.

After mentally (catch up with the dance step) and physically (dancing) tired. We do a singing session presented by each department from group 10. They seemed like enjoying it.

 Making Glutinous rice balls (Tang Yuan) for hi-tea

All of the process to make the colourful glutinous rice balls did by the group 10 members itself. It is nice and feel a little bit proud when the children are really enjoyed and love the 'Tang Yuan'. Even some of them asked for an extra bowl! Everyone at the center praised our members made the very tasty ' Tang Yuan' 

                            Colouring session and accompaning the small children

We filled the children free time with colouring session because they are really love it. We coloured a few pages of cartoon drawing while chatting with them , they told us about what are they doing in their daily lives, and one of them want us to write our name into his notebook as  a memory. One of them also talked to us about his ambition to serve the dissabled children in the future. They are so kind-hearted and thoughtful. The small indian kid who is speech-dispaired keep signaling us to sit down with him and draw cartoon character with him, how cute it was.

Making Origami Butterfly

During the DIY origami making session, we taught them to make a various type of colourful origami figure such as butterfly, swans and heart. Step by step, some of them manage to make butterfly and heart figure, but one of them manage to make a swan. But is okay because the children were very happy holding the butterfly and heart origami.

Cleaning session

Despite of the heavy rain that pours the rainwater onto the floor, we were also do household chores spiritually. We swept and mopped the floor, watering plant, clear clutter and mop the table, pick up rubbish under the table and arrange the chairs back to its original place.

The 2nd had been so meaningful and of course we will the last day the most memorable!