Hi everyone! 💛

I’m so excited to share something new and fun with you—Perky Celebration Chants! 🎉 These chants are short, cheerful, and full of positive energy. They’re designed to motivate, celebrate, and make learning extra joyful with the help of our beloved mascot, Perky Piung.

Why Chants?

Chants are a wonderful way to build confidence, create team spirit, and spread happy vibes in the classroom. With rhythm and repetition, they are easy to remember and fun to say aloud. The best part? Kids absolutely love them!

Meet the Chants

We have three special chants, each with its own theme:

• 💥 Perky Power – all about learning, playing, and shining through.

• 🐢 Shell Power – celebrating victory and teamwork.

• 🚀 Go Piung – cheering for speed, energy, and success.

Each chant comes with a bright, colorful design featuring Perky Piung in different poses. They’re perfect for sharing, chanting together, and adding a splash of motivation to any day.

Join the Fun!

I’ll be posting these chants one by one on social media, along with a cover graphic to kick off the series. Even if you don’t read the captions (I know, most of us don’t! 😅), the visuals are enough to bring a smile to your face.

✨ Let’s spread the energy of Perky Piung far and wide!

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #CelebrateWithPiung when you join in the fun.

I had fun seeing them perform! These are 8-year-old ESL learners in their language arts class. They had the opportunity to make props, role-playing in small groups and class presentation. Six out of nine groups managed to present and WOW, they volunteered! Cheers to these children from SK Kuala Perlis!

The dialogue has three characters, a red rose, a gardener and the narrator. These children showed a level of maturity as they democratically chose their character, quietly practicing their dialogue while diligently preparing their props. While the lesson centers on the ability of pupils performing with guidance, their learning repertoire clearly extends it.

Thank you to Ms. Hani for sharing your class with me!

Notice how children eat?

I have 4 small children and I can relate to this.

If I want to have a peaceful meal, I will eat on my own.

If I choose to have a piece meal, I can have the 'pleasure' eating with them.

Children, bundles of joy, INDEED!

Kids love sand.

I would raced ahead to the water but my children would start gawking and be amazed.

Locating a spot for picnic would be a tug of war as they constantly kicking the sand, picking up shells
and whining for us to stop and sit down.

They made houses of all shapes and sizes. Amateur works mainly.

I love how their ideas flow, imagination taking its course but I just hate becoming a referee when power struggles emerge.

I think, making something it is just human nature. It is an innate ability.

Parents and teachers should let the creativity flow once in a while in the classroom.

Through proper time and channel, pupils will be empowered in their learning and be accountable towards it.

My grandma's was a wooden house built on stilts and have 2 staircases. One for the front door and back.

It was a small house with 2 bedrooms, wet and dry kitchen and a hall.

I remember playing with my cousin at my grandma's house when I was little.

We used to stomp our feet because we love the sounds of the wood.

While the elderly find it chaotic, we love to do it until they chased us off to the ground!

This is an extraordinary holiday!

It suits a child's imagination.

I just hope the author would end the poem in a bang!

Woodpecker.

A bird, easily distinguish from the rest of the gang.

As a child, I can identify this bird (in pictures, of course) in a blink of an eye!

In this poem, it portray the bird as a guest knocking on door. Unfortunately, the host is not in and the Woodpecker keep on knocking without understanding.

Questions:

1. Why does the Woodpecker keep on knocking?
2. It is in his nature to keep knocking?
3. What is the difference between the woodpecker and a person knocking on doors?
4. If you are the Woodpecker, what would you do?
5. What do you think of this poem?

Teacher can post these questions to spark some discussion on the bird.

Teacher can create curiosity in pupils by throwing questions.

They might not know the answer but it is enough to poke their mind.

This poem allows for variety of kinaesthetic activities for children.

Children love to move about and do things because they learn by doing.

I find this type of activities suit most type of learners in particular the weaker learners.

Weaker learners feel less intimidated as the language learning is camouflage by the movement.

The repetitious nature of the activity enable them to listen, do and say until they are able to produce it.

I love to use kinaesthetic activity during my teaching days as I can get full attention and participation.

Wow!

It took me so long to find the vibe to write. So here I am, getting my thoughts out, in proper written form. Updating a Facebook doesn't provide the same satisfaction as writing blog will give you. At least that's how I feel.

In one of the language arts lesson, we made a paper duck. It has been a while since we made something. So I goggled to find the most time-saving craft, easily made and can serve its purpose. Found it here.

After they have made the duck, we did a simple show and tell. The pupils hold their finished craft and say out loud the sentence patterns that I have prepared. Ya, I know, a second language learner need constant guidance. It is okay for me, as long as they are willing to perform in my class, then I will find ways to get them engaged.

Firstly, I fold the paper plate into half.

Oops! I brought a Styrofoam plate, so I had to cut it out.

Pupils used the template given by the teacher to make the face.

I made the face and coloured the beak.

The paper plate added volume to the duck.

The legs were made from a cardboard.

Stick every loose part. The head, the legs and the tail.

The final product. I have made a paper plate duck!