this year ACES Day is scheduled for ONE HOUR for the upper sec and lower sec slot. in 2010 and 2011, it has always been half an hour. so when i heard that this year it will be ONE HOUR, i start to worry. the mass dance is only 3 minutes and i have to lead the students to dance it 20 times?!
and then later on my hod told me not to worry, because he will also incorporate 5BX into ACES Day. phew... that really gave me some breathing space.
so that means ACES Day will be divided into 2 segments:
1) 5BX exercise, comprising of push-ups, scissors kick, crunches, squats and jumping jacks
2) Mass dance
my hod is the one leading the 5BX. all the pe teachers + miss chua (the best dressed female and also the dance dynamics teacher IC) are on stage with my hod. and he is really a devil. asked all the students and staff to do two sets of 5BX. 1st set is 15 repititions, and the 2nd set is 20 repititions. that is for the upper sec slot.
so which means for the upper sec slot, we did:
35 push ups, 35 scissors kicks, 35 crunches, 35 squats, 35 counts of 4 jumping jacks
for the lower sec slot, thank goodness my hod can tell that we a bit shag already, so all of us did 10 repititions for the 1st set and 15 repitions for the 2nd set.
you may think it is quite easy, but trust me, have 2 hours of intense exercise, without stopping, is seriously no joke! i am 29 years already, not 19. :p
ok here are the pics of the 5BX exercise:
hod checking that everybody is ok.
the warm up! i look so serious.
miss chua also very serious.
hod didn't get enough sleep yesterday night.
model teacher. hahahahaha.
model teacher again! haha.
its really great to see their happy faces while doing the exercises.
after the 5BX, its finally my turn to lead the students!
this year's mass dance is choreographed by the instructor of dance dynamics. and i am also very thankful that this year i have miss chua to lead the students together with me on stage. for the past two years i am the only teacher. i think the students also feel sian of seeing me. i am sure that they feel thankful too to see a fresh face on stage.
and here's the pics!
my face looks slimmer and sharper in 2010. hahahahaha.
3 cheers for miss chua!
yay for eudora tan!
my back flip wushu boy. he can dance very well too!
the sec 3 express students. loved teaching them the most. they super onz when i teach them the aces day dance last year and also for this year.
my house captain! so supportive!
totally enjoying themselves.
this sec 1 kid has lots of potential.
wah seh so jubilant.
towards the end of the aces day i asked the ava to play the famous song 'oppa gangnam style'. this was actually unplanned. only some of the teachers and students knew about it. i wanted to see how the reaction will be and omg the reaction was awesome!!! everybody went into a frenzy and danced to the song. wonderful way to end aces day, and it really ended on a high.
the signature dance moves of oppa gangnam style.
thank you teachers and students who are so sporting. :)
the theme is 'east meets west'.
me and my fellow show choir teacher in-charge eudora organised some games for the staff. and the response was great.
i am very happy that i convinced batman to wear part of the qing guys costume.
and my fellow arts comm colleague miss chua won the best dressed female.
where the high tea was held.
made this spoof poster to entertain everybody. haha. batman and the two robins are on top. the 4 teachers below are the ones who planned the games.
love the balloon decoration! i helped to blow some of the balloons!
kudos to batman! the person beside him is one of our school counsellors. previously worked as an operations manager at MI.
game #1 - played ten songs and the teachers at their respective tables have to answer questions based on these ten songs, for example who is the singer, what is the singing group, what is the movie, etc etc.
game #2 - dun forget the lyrics. i became harlem yu. hahahaha.
karaoke videos taken from youtube! youtube is really an amazing website!
game #3 - guess the song title!
i am not performing, but it so happen that one of the songs is oppa gangnam style so i just danced naturally to the music. haha.
my wonderful arts comm teachers! miss chua is the long hair girl with red flowers on her blouse.
the hot guys!!!
after the high tea i went to teo heng to sing ktv with some of my colleagues. and it ended with supper at a zhi char stall at katong shopping centre.
great day of celebration! but we were all very tired. thank you to the two guys above who sent us home!
i just have to share this quote from my hall/army friend, Leon.
All our best moonwalkers have left the planet.
my aesthetically talented kids have to perform for a group of Ps and VPs. they came to my workplace for a sharing session.
so glad to have the kids who share the same passion as me and eudora tan in our own area of performing arts.
me and the kpop kids. thank you xuehong for the wonderful choreography! they really enjoyed dancing this item.
eudora tan with the a cappella kids. does the pose look familiar? hahahahaha.
Ps and VPs are very impressed with their performance. although me and eudora thought that they did not perform to their fullest potential. probably our standards are too high already. :p
another performance clocked. when will this ever end?
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