颳風下雨又如何﹖

說來慚愧﹐我大半生人都不大喜歡戶外活動。到了上大學的一次遊學﹐我才第一次躺在草地上看天空﹔而且那次更是逼不得以 - 一班女孩子嘻嘻哈哈地嚷著要躺在草地上拍張照﹐我怎好意思推搪﹖還記得躺在草地上的十數分鐘內﹐我腦海裡想著的只有害怕小蟲及螞蟻會爬到我的頭髮裡﹑有怕濕漉漉的泥土會沾到手臂上。我在香港長大﹐“骯髒”的定義很廣 - 我從小便知道不能碰泥土裡的小蟲﹑石灘上的寄居貝殼或草地上的野花 - 因為它們都很骯髒。小孩子時代﹐有時候按不住自己的好奇心﹐會頑皮地跟這些大自然的朋友握個手。不出一分鐘﹐我便會被帶到廁所洗手。久而久之﹐我便連跟它們握手的衝動也沒了 - 大自然從此便是個陌路人。現在的孩子﹐兩歲的時候讓他們搓泥膠﹔不消半分鐘﹐他們便會看看自己沾滿麵粉的雙手﹐嚷著要媽媽帶他們去洗手。他們用顏料畫畫﹐有水彩不小心滴到衣物上和臉上﹔傭人看在眼內﹐立即會用最快的速度把小孩子帶離“現場”﹐

Volkswagon's contribution to creativity

I think Volkswagon hires the most talented Marketing team. They always produce creative TV commericals, like this one:



This is not necessarily the best commercial from a marketing point of view, but it's a delight to watch it - cool idea and amazing performance.

Another video is from a site called "The fun theory." It's a site sponsored by Volkswagon.

The site describes itself as "[a site

Classical music performances (Opera, symphony, choral work, etc.)

Think classical music is boring? ME TOO!!! haha...yes, even as a music teacher, I'm not that of a classical music lover. But at the same time, I think it's nice to tell kids about classical music. So I strive to make it as FUN as possible! (for both my students' benefit and MINE!)Creative Kids Central is a superb site for kids to learn more about different kinds of classical music on stage. There

Year 1 music: Teaching DO-RE-MI

"DO a deer a female deer...." = BORING! The song DO-RE-MI is such popular song that a lot of children have heard of it before primary school, which means it's not a good idea to introduce it in class. (And for some reason I'm NOT a Sound of Music fan at all.)I compare this song to DO-RE-MI (from Sound of Music), and see if they can use the right terms to describe the similarity and differences (

Year 2 World Music: Australia

I think we've listen to this song in class for at least 10 times (we designed a dance to it~) and children still haven't got fed up with it. They love the story behind the song and the melody was so easy to pick up. The only downside is that I can't use this song to introduce Aboriginal music. It'd be perfect if I can find a version with didgeridoo playing in the background.
WALTZING MATILDA

To my dear little friends

那次不辭而別﹐令我到今天仍然耿耿于懷。

小朋友﹐我們彼此認識一年多了 - 那即是你們的大半生。我看著你們成長﹔從爬行到蹦蹦跳跳﹑從呀呀學語到懂得主動跟我說早晨﹑從愛哭變成主動...有幾個甚至在媽媽的肚子裡面已經聽過我的聲音 - 大概這就是緣份罷﹖

沒有工作的星期六早上﹐感覺很清閒﹔對於一星期裡面﹐終於有一天可以睡晚一點﹑星期五晚上我終於可以晚點回家﹐我是感恩的 - 畢竟那是我過去兩年來都未享受過的生活啊!但是﹐到現在我仍然會在每個星期六早上想你們一遍﹕

Sabrina仍然像從前般害羞﹑常常躲在爸爸身後跟老師玩捉迷藏嗎﹖
Audrey依舊會一走進課室便大聲跟大家說聲哈囉嗎﹖
Jay還是一樣喜歡站在圈圈中間表演跳舞嗎﹖
Christopher還常常用那殺死人的眼神望著老師嗎﹖
Elena那“招牌”的扭屁股舞步有沒有進步啊﹖
Alby還是一樣愛跳跳跳﹐