Okay so I lied about the gallery. Rest assured it will be up shortly. I am currently experiencing a glitch that will not allow me to upload photos to Blogger!
Monday, 28 January 2013
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tiger Times Two!
Two weeks ago at Tiger we were working on proper ways for patrol leaders to address Akala, and the other Scouters. The Tiger scouts practiced saluting and patrol leaders answered questions about their unit number and patrol colour and if their patrol was dressed correctly for activities. I am getting good at recognizing the Thai words for "attention" and "salute" ... "at ease" is still a difficult one for me though. The Tiger scouts were still pretty excited after New Years holidays so we didn't have time for much else. Last week was Sports Day at the school so Tiger was cancelled. This week we made up for it because it was the P1-P3 level Tiger Scout day camp. I think Kru Thawan said it is also their last meeting for this school year. That's a shame, but there are only 12 teaching days left this term!
I took a lot of photos and videos so I am going to set up this entry as a narrative of the day's events using the video clips and a few photos. The other photos I will stick in a separate entry as a sort of gallery. Some of the videos I was narrating but others I was just observing. I apologize if the video quality was compromised in the upload. My internet is extremely slow!
Our Tiger Scout day camp started with the moving up ceremony. All the Tiger Scouts had to crawl through the tiger tunnel to some jungle drumming! The tunnel is made of palm fronds and the tiger head is just elaborate papermache. On the other end of the tunnel, us leaders were waiting to mark the kid's faces with "tribal paint" which was a mixtured of baby powder and water.
Students with baby powder tribal paint on their faces.
After this ceremony in the covered walkway we went inside the gym to start our flag ceremony. First the kids made their circle, then they greeted Akala, and then they saluted the flag while singing the national anthem. When that was done they did their Sanskrit Buddha prayer, before moving back into their patrols for instructions for the day's events.
Tiger Scouts Form a Circle.
Akala salute.
The 4 stations for the P2 age group were First Aid, Asian Flag Recognition, Knot Tying, and reciting the Tiger Scout Promise. There were 15-20 minutes for each station and then it was lunch time.
Kru Thawan is a good actress. She pretends to have a broken arm.
One Tiger Scout remembers their knots!
Students answer questions about countries in South East Asia.
Knot tying demonstration.
(Note: I didn't take any pictures of the last station because they were just reciting their promise. There wasn't much to see other than a patrol of kids sitting on the floor!)
After lunch time we had lots of song singing and drumming. Kru T took a turn at the drums, and then pulled me up to the front to dance. It was a bit difficult because it took twice as much concentration to listen for the queues in Thai. It was still a lot of fun.
Scouts practice actions for the Sawadee Song.
Another song, starring Kru T on the drums.
Lots of new songs today!
A little dance off to end the singing session! These are the finalists. I missed the good bit though because my camera battery was low.
We had 4 more stations for the afternoon. One was egg and spoon relay, one was a Kim's game, one was balance beam and beanbags relay, and the last was an observation game that I will have to describe. It had old coke bottles set up. Inside each one was paper shavings. One of the bottles had another object but the Tiger Scouts only had a few seconds to look in each one. They had to answer correctly which bottle number to get a prize. Then they had to stick their hand in a box and feel something and guess what it was.
Kim's Game and Song.
Bean bags.
The observation game.
Observation Game bottles.
Relay.
Egg and spoon.
After the centers we gave out star pins. There is one star for each year of Tiger Scouts, so most of the P2s were getting their second star. The pins go on their hats. We then watched The Jungle Book movie (a Thai Version that is similar to the Disney version but shorter.) Finally we moved into circles to take down the flags, before forming one huge circle around the outside of the gym. The Tiger Scouts linked arms and sang a song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, and then sang the King's anthem to show the completion of the day.
Kru T putting stars on hats.
Closing Song.
Photo gallery will be up tomorrow because it took so long to upload videos tonight!
I took a lot of photos and videos so I am going to set up this entry as a narrative of the day's events using the video clips and a few photos. The other photos I will stick in a separate entry as a sort of gallery. Some of the videos I was narrating but others I was just observing. I apologize if the video quality was compromised in the upload. My internet is extremely slow!
Our Tiger Scout day camp started with the moving up ceremony. All the Tiger Scouts had to crawl through the tiger tunnel to some jungle drumming! The tunnel is made of palm fronds and the tiger head is just elaborate papermache. On the other end of the tunnel, us leaders were waiting to mark the kid's faces with "tribal paint" which was a mixtured of baby powder and water.
Students with baby powder tribal paint on their faces.
After this ceremony in the covered walkway we went inside the gym to start our flag ceremony. First the kids made their circle, then they greeted Akala, and then they saluted the flag while singing the national anthem. When that was done they did their Sanskrit Buddha prayer, before moving back into their patrols for instructions for the day's events.
Tiger Scouts Form a Circle.
Akala salute.
The 4 stations for the P2 age group were First Aid, Asian Flag Recognition, Knot Tying, and reciting the Tiger Scout Promise. There were 15-20 minutes for each station and then it was lunch time.
Kru Thawan is a good actress. She pretends to have a broken arm.
One Tiger Scout remembers their knots!
Students answer questions about countries in South East Asia.
Knot tying demonstration.
(Note: I didn't take any pictures of the last station because they were just reciting their promise. There wasn't much to see other than a patrol of kids sitting on the floor!)
After lunch time we had lots of song singing and drumming. Kru T took a turn at the drums, and then pulled me up to the front to dance. It was a bit difficult because it took twice as much concentration to listen for the queues in Thai. It was still a lot of fun.
Scouts practice actions for the Sawadee Song.
Another song, starring Kru T on the drums.
Lots of new songs today!
A little dance off to end the singing session! These are the finalists. I missed the good bit though because my camera battery was low.
We had 4 more stations for the afternoon. One was egg and spoon relay, one was a Kim's game, one was balance beam and beanbags relay, and the last was an observation game that I will have to describe. It had old coke bottles set up. Inside each one was paper shavings. One of the bottles had another object but the Tiger Scouts only had a few seconds to look in each one. They had to answer correctly which bottle number to get a prize. Then they had to stick their hand in a box and feel something and guess what it was.
Kim's Game and Song.
Bean bags.
The observation game.
Observation Game bottles.
Relay.
Egg and spoon.
After the centers we gave out star pins. There is one star for each year of Tiger Scouts, so most of the P2s were getting their second star. The pins go on their hats. We then watched The Jungle Book movie (a Thai Version that is similar to the Disney version but shorter.) Finally we moved into circles to take down the flags, before forming one huge circle around the outside of the gym. The Tiger Scouts linked arms and sang a song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, and then sang the King's anthem to show the completion of the day.
Kru T putting stars on hats.
Closing Song.
Photo gallery will be up tomorrow because it took so long to upload videos tonight!
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