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asking them to pray and sing “Good Bye” song. As the back-up activities, the
researcher provides “Pinocchio” song. The purpose of the song is to enhance
children’s cheerfulness and liveliness since it consists of repetitive actions.
c. Unit 3
The topic in this unit is “Welcome to My House”. It is about understanding
parts of house and its furniture. The skills being developed in this unit are listening and speaking. The goals of the unit are implemented in the indicators as
mentioned in the Appendix A . In “Get Ready” stage, there are morning routines as
mentioned in Unit 2. In this stage, the morning routines are started by greeting the children and asking them to pray. After that, the teachers check their attendance
and sing national anthem. The stage is ended by teaching “Good Morning” song
and singing the song together. In the
second stage, i.e. “Let’s Start”, the teachers ask the children to tell about campus grand tour they have experienced the day before. Then, still about
buildings, the teachers tell about a house, its parts and furniture inside it. The teachers pronounce the terms and the children follow the teachers. To help the
children to understand the materials, the teachers show some pictures of parts of a house and its furniture. After explaining a house, the teachers show a video about
“The House” song and ask the children to watch the video carefully. In “It’s Your Turn” stage, the children are asked to sing the song together,
led by the teachers. It is expected that the song can enhance the children understanding about parts of a house. Then, they are
explained about “Sticking Race
” game. The game is about filling empty rooms with appropriate furniture.
The furniture that should be attached is based on the teachers’ clues. They are
divided into two groups and are asked to make a line for each group. Then, they have to listen to the
teachers’ clues about furniture of the house and its room in the house. Then, they have to run and race to find the right furniture based on the
clue and to stick it to the appropriate room. Therefore, the children have to listen to the teachers carefully so they would not choose the wrong clues. The game is
expected to check children’s understanding about parts of a house and furniture. In “Let’s Have Fun” stage, the teachers tell the children about “Paper
Hand Craft” activity. In this activity, the children are given a paper containing a picture of a cartoon character’s house and some twister of long-cut-papers. The
children are asked to stick the twister papers in the house’s picture and then to
color the picture as they wanted. The activity is aimed at enhancing the ch ildren’s
creativity and activating their hand-eye coordination in a fun way. In “Take a Break” stage, the children are told about “Sing Your Way
Home” song. Then, they are asked to sing the song together, led by the teachers. After that, they are asked about what they have learned on the day and asked for
their reflection whether they are happy or not. In the last activity, the teachers tell the children about Barbecue activity for the next day and end the class by asking
them to pray and singing “Sing Your Way Home” song together. As the back-up activity, there is
“Whisper Race” game. The game is similar to
the “Sticking Race” game about the media being used. The difference is that on this game the children at the back row has to whisper to their friend in
front of them until the children in the front row in the same group, about the clues