Date: 24th September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Reading & Discussion of the next activity
We continue reading the "Good Enough to Eat" book. This time, we concentrated on minerals, vitamins and also food about protein and calcium.
Since we talked about calcium, I brought in another book - Food Experiment (in Mandarin) which introduce an experiment related to calcium - 10 minutes ice-cream. We read through the ingredients and steps of how to carry out the activity. We shall carry out this activity on Friday.
Tomorrow we shall do a language activity related to the scrambled egg yesterday.
2014年9月25日星期四
2014年9月23日星期二
Cooking the Supreme Scrambled Egg
Date: 23rd September 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10-00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Cooking the Supreme Scrambled Egg
The children got excited looking at those ingredients that I brought in to the class. I have the following ingredients:
1) 6 eggs
2) some milk
3) some salt and pepper
4) butter
Before we start cooking, I listed out the steps and numbers of helpers we needed for this activity. Coincidentally, I managed to delegate all the jobs to each child. So the children draw lots for their task.
The steps and procedure and the person in charges:
1) crack the eggs - Yee Shuen, Chloe, Shang En, Zhi Yi, Xin Yee, Xiang Qin
2) Add the milk - Qiao Yi
3) Put the salt & pepper - Xiao Xuan
4) Whisk the egg mixture - Li Chuan
5) Put the butter in a pan - Aiden
6) Add the egg mixture into the pan - Jing Heng
7) Stir the egg mixture - Jia Xuan
I managed to take pictures of most of the children except for the last 2 task as the pan is getting hot and action needed to be quick. Most of the children did their part and they were eager to taste it.
Then I brought in a bread toaster. A few children took turn to toast the bread. As we only have 6 slices of bread, everyone has half a share of it.
Now, the scrambled eggs are done. The bread had been spread with a thin layer of butter, I put the scrambled eggs on top of it before serving it to the children. They all had a wonderful supreme scrambled egg for extra snack time today.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10-00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Cooking the Supreme Scrambled Egg
The children got excited looking at those ingredients that I brought in to the class. I have the following ingredients:
1) 6 eggs
2) some milk
3) some salt and pepper
4) butter
Before we start cooking, I listed out the steps and numbers of helpers we needed for this activity. Coincidentally, I managed to delegate all the jobs to each child. So the children draw lots for their task.
The steps and procedure and the person in charges:
1) crack the eggs - Yee Shuen, Chloe, Shang En, Zhi Yi, Xin Yee, Xiang Qin
2) Add the milk - Qiao Yi
3) Put the salt & pepper - Xiao Xuan
4) Whisk the egg mixture - Li Chuan
5) Put the butter in a pan - Aiden
6) Add the egg mixture into the pan - Jing Heng
7) Stir the egg mixture - Jia Xuan
I managed to take pictures of most of the children except for the last 2 task as the pan is getting hot and action needed to be quick. Most of the children did their part and they were eager to taste it.
Then I brought in a bread toaster. A few children took turn to toast the bread. As we only have 6 slices of bread, everyone has half a share of it.
Now, the scrambled eggs are done. The bread had been spread with a thin layer of butter, I put the scrambled eggs on top of it before serving it to the children. They all had a wonderful supreme scrambled egg for extra snack time today.
Food Jigsaw Puzzle
Date: 19th September 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Pomegranate
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Food Jigsaw Puzzle
Previously, the five years old children were being paired in groups with the six years old children to carry out this food jigsaw puzzle activity. However, today the five years old children will have to carry out this activity in a smaller group. There are 2 different types of jigsaw puzzles. One of it is much simple where one could complete it individually. The other one is much more complicated where most of the children would needed to work in pairs or three.
The children decided which jigsaw puzzle they wanted to work on and they went to the different table accordingly. Most of the children have no difficulty in completing the simple one while some needed some guidance for the more complicated one.
Note: I will be on medical leave on Monday to follow up check up. Therefore, we shall carry out the supreme scrambled egg activity on Tuesday.
Day: Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Pomegranate
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Food Jigsaw Puzzle
Previously, the five years old children were being paired in groups with the six years old children to carry out this food jigsaw puzzle activity. However, today the five years old children will have to carry out this activity in a smaller group. There are 2 different types of jigsaw puzzles. One of it is much simple where one could complete it individually. The other one is much more complicated where most of the children would needed to work in pairs or three.
The children decided which jigsaw puzzle they wanted to work on and they went to the different table accordingly. Most of the children have no difficulty in completing the simple one while some needed some guidance for the more complicated one.
Note: I will be on medical leave on Monday to follow up check up. Therefore, we shall carry out the supreme scrambled egg activity on Tuesday.
2014年9月22日星期一
Read on Supreme Scrambled Eggs
Date: 18th September 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Read on Supreme Scrambled Eggs
We are still working on protein project this week. Therefore, I found another simple recipe that the children might be able to do it on their own with very little of supervision. With using the same book, "Cooking with Kids" we read through the procedure and steps about how to cook the supreme scrambled eggs.
Basically the ingredients that we needed were as followed:
1) 6 eggs
2) some milk
3) some salt and pepper
4) some butter
We shall carry out this activity on next Tuesday.
Some of the children requested to colour their worksheet that they had just completed yesterday. Therefore I allowed them to continue with it.
Day: Thursday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Read on Supreme Scrambled Eggs
We are still working on protein project this week. Therefore, I found another simple recipe that the children might be able to do it on their own with very little of supervision. With using the same book, "Cooking with Kids" we read through the procedure and steps about how to cook the supreme scrambled eggs.
Basically the ingredients that we needed were as followed:
1) 6 eggs
2) some milk
3) some salt and pepper
4) some butter
We shall carry out this activity on next Tuesday.
Some of the children requested to colour their worksheet that they had just completed yesterday. Therefore I allowed them to continue with it.
Video Sharing & Worksheet on Protein
Date: 17th September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Video Sharing & Worksheet on Protein
As the children were interested to know how the sausages were made, hereby, I showed them a video of how the big factories produce sausages.
Video #1: How it Made Hot Dogs
At the same time, I also read them a procedure of homemade sausages from a book called "Watch it...Do it - Cooking for Kids made easy". This book guided parents and kids to learn the procedure and steps about cooking.
However, there were a few children who are vegetarian. They can't take any meat. Therefore, I told the children that we shall choose another item to work on for our protein project. They agreed.
As of today, I also prepared a worksheet for them to work on. The previous protein poster was done in a big group. However, today's worksheet, the children were given the same pictures and they have to cut out the words and match it accordingly. This time, they have to learn to recognize all the words that appear on the poster and match it correctly with the food item's pictures.
Due to insufficient time, the children only managed to complete pasting all the words accordingly. They wanted to colour the pictures. We shall continue this if we have time tomorrow.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Video Sharing & Worksheet on Protein
As the children were interested to know how the sausages were made, hereby, I showed them a video of how the big factories produce sausages.
Video #1: How it Made Hot Dogs
At the same time, I also read them a procedure of homemade sausages from a book called "Watch it...Do it - Cooking for Kids made easy". This book guided parents and kids to learn the procedure and steps about cooking.
However, there were a few children who are vegetarian. They can't take any meat. Therefore, I told the children that we shall choose another item to work on for our protein project. They agreed.
As of today, I also prepared a worksheet for them to work on. The previous protein poster was done in a big group. However, today's worksheet, the children were given the same pictures and they have to cut out the words and match it accordingly. This time, they have to learn to recognize all the words that appear on the poster and match it correctly with the food item's pictures.
Due to insufficient time, the children only managed to complete pasting all the words accordingly. They wanted to colour the pictures. We shall continue this if we have time tomorrow.
2014年9月21日星期日
Reading - Sausages
Date: 15th September 2014
Day: Monday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Reading - Sausages
10:00-10:30am - snack time
I'm not able to carry out too vigorous activity with the children, therefore, this week, we shall concentrate more on reading and worksheet activity.
Book Sharing - Sausages by Jessica Souhami
This is a story about a poor woodcutter, named John, who found an elf on a tree one day. The elf was stuck on a tree. After helping the elf, it gave John three wishes. John was delighted with such events and got home to tell his wife, Martha. Both of them sat down and think hard of what to wish until John got hungry and wish for some sausages.
When all of the sudden sausages came down from the sky, Martha got angry and made another wish. She wished that all the sausages would stick on John's nose. The sausage did. No matter how Martha tried to pull the sausages away from John's nose, it was not successful. As a result, Martha has to use the last wish to get the sausages away from John's nose.
Even though they had used up their three wishes with all the sausages and not other valuable things, yet, they had a wonderful dinner.
Day: Monday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Reading - Sausages
10:00-10:30am - snack time
I'm not able to carry out too vigorous activity with the children, therefore, this week, we shall concentrate more on reading and worksheet activity.
Book Sharing - Sausages by Jessica Souhami
This is a story about a poor woodcutter, named John, who found an elf on a tree one day. The elf was stuck on a tree. After helping the elf, it gave John three wishes. John was delighted with such events and got home to tell his wife, Martha. Both of them sat down and think hard of what to wish until John got hungry and wish for some sausages.
When all of the sudden sausages came down from the sky, Martha got angry and made another wish. She wished that all the sausages would stick on John's nose. The sausage did. No matter how Martha tried to pull the sausages away from John's nose, it was not successful. As a result, Martha has to use the last wish to get the sausages away from John's nose.
Even though they had used up their three wishes with all the sausages and not other valuable things, yet, they had a wonderful dinner.
Protein Project Work
Date: 10th - 12th September 2014
Day: Wednesday - Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Protein Project Work
This part of the work was being carried out by the relief teacher.
With the reading that I did with them yesterday, I also prepared some pictures and headlines for the children to do a poster about "Food has Protein". The children needed to choose an item to colour and then pasted them on the poster according to the heading. All the food items were being categorised according to the reading we had yesterday.
This activity took them about 2 days to complete. Then, with all the shopping malls leaflets we had, I prepared another activity for the children to do with the relief teacher.
From all the shopping malls' leaflet, the children will choose at least 4 types of food that contains protein to be pasted in their worksheet.
Day: Wednesday - Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Protein Project Work
This part of the work was being carried out by the relief teacher.
With the reading that I did with them yesterday, I also prepared some pictures and headlines for the children to do a poster about "Food has Protein". The children needed to choose an item to colour and then pasted them on the poster according to the heading. All the food items were being categorised according to the reading we had yesterday.
This activity took them about 2 days to complete. Then, with all the shopping malls leaflets we had, I prepared another activity for the children to do with the relief teacher.
From all the shopping malls' leaflet, the children will choose at least 4 types of food that contains protein to be pasted in their worksheet.
2014年9月17日星期三
Which food has protein?
Date: 9th September 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Which food has protein?
We moved on to the next food pyramid which is related to food that has protein and calcium. Therefore, we went through some readings about this. From the reading, I managed to summarize a simple categories for the children to understand.
Protein can be found in our body as well as in food. There are many kinds of food that contains protein. Protein helps to build muscles, cells and organs. I listed down those foods that the children are familiar with. Here are the categories that I made for their understanding:
1) Meat, fish, and poultry - example: beef, fish, chicken
2) Legume - example: dried beans, peas
3) Nut - example: peanut
4) Dairy product - example: milk, yogurt, cheese
5) Other miscellaneous food - example: egg, tofu, other egg substitute food etc.
Note: I accidentally hurt my back and there's a bone fracture. I will be on leave from today onwards till early next week. All the activities in the thematic class will be conducted by another relief teacher. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Which food has protein?
We moved on to the next food pyramid which is related to food that has protein and calcium. Therefore, we went through some readings about this. From the reading, I managed to summarize a simple categories for the children to understand.
Protein can be found in our body as well as in food. There are many kinds of food that contains protein. Protein helps to build muscles, cells and organs. I listed down those foods that the children are familiar with. Here are the categories that I made for their understanding:
1) Meat, fish, and poultry - example: beef, fish, chicken
2) Legume - example: dried beans, peas
3) Nut - example: peanut
4) Dairy product - example: milk, yogurt, cheese
5) Other miscellaneous food - example: egg, tofu, other egg substitute food etc.
Note: I accidentally hurt my back and there's a bone fracture. I will be on leave from today onwards till early next week. All the activities in the thematic class will be conducted by another relief teacher. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
2014年9月12日星期五
Pumpkin Sweet Dumpling
Date: 5th September 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Pumpkin Sweet Dumpling
Today, I brought in the pumpkin dough. The children were quite excited and kept asking me what they are going to do with it. I said,"We shall make 'tang yuan'."All seems quite puzzled. Not very sure what exactly am I talking about.
The dough was quite wet, therefore, I added in some more glutinous rice flour to make it dryer so that the children could roll them into small round balls. Once the children got their share of dough, they immediately started off by rolling it into small round balls. Then their memory recalled. They kept saying that they did this before and showing me the expression of how delicious it would be. Hahaha, the children are so cute.
While waiting for the children to finish all the dough, I started to boil some water with ginger, sugar and some pandan leaves which I picked freshly from our school garden.
Once the children had completed a small plate of round dough, I put all of it into the boiling water. The children kept commending that the dessert smells nice.
When the sweet dumpling started to float, it means that it has cooked. I switched off the heat and let it get cold for a while before scooping them up to serve.
The children enjoyed the pumpkin sweet dumpling. Some of them even asked for second round.
Day: Friday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Pumpkin Sweet Dumpling
Today, I brought in the pumpkin dough. The children were quite excited and kept asking me what they are going to do with it. I said,"We shall make 'tang yuan'."All seems quite puzzled. Not very sure what exactly am I talking about.
The dough was quite wet, therefore, I added in some more glutinous rice flour to make it dryer so that the children could roll them into small round balls. Once the children got their share of dough, they immediately started off by rolling it into small round balls. Then their memory recalled. They kept saying that they did this before and showing me the expression of how delicious it would be. Hahaha, the children are so cute.
While waiting for the children to finish all the dough, I started to boil some water with ginger, sugar and some pandan leaves which I picked freshly from our school garden.
Once the children had completed a small plate of round dough, I put all of it into the boiling water. The children kept commending that the dessert smells nice.
When the sweet dumpling started to float, it means that it has cooked. I switched off the heat and let it get cold for a while before scooping them up to serve.
The children enjoyed the pumpkin sweet dumpling. Some of them even asked for second round.
2014年9月11日星期四
Worksheet - Sentence Arrangement of Pumpkin
Date: 4th September 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Worksheet - Sentence Arrangement of Pumpkin
Today, the children suddenly thought of their chilies seeds that they planted in the garden. We observed it last week, nothing grow. The children asked if the birds had eaten the chilies' seeds. I have no idea. Suddenly, an idea pop ups.
Teacher: Shall we try to plant pumpkin instead?
Aiden: Yes, yes.
Yee Shuen: Pumpkin and chilies? Become pumpkin chilies. (She laughed happily)
Then we moved to the garden and looked at the soil. Still nothing grow. Therefore, I gave each child a pumpkin seed to be planted in their recycled pot. Then happily we moved back to class to do our worksheet today.
Most of the children had completed their colouring. I wrote down the sentences that the children made last week on the whiteboard. Each child got a bowl with jumbled words in it. They have to re-arrange the sentences again. This time, the word - pumpkin, appeared at these 3 sentences, I reminded the children to look carefully which to use especially one of the "pumpkin" word is the last word of the sentence. It followed by a punctuation - full stop.
I'm glad to see that most of the children could follow instruction and observed the word correctly.
Day: Thursday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Worksheet - Sentence Arrangement of Pumpkin
Today, the children suddenly thought of their chilies seeds that they planted in the garden. We observed it last week, nothing grow. The children asked if the birds had eaten the chilies' seeds. I have no idea. Suddenly, an idea pop ups.
Teacher: Shall we try to plant pumpkin instead?
Aiden: Yes, yes.
Yee Shuen: Pumpkin and chilies? Become pumpkin chilies. (She laughed happily)
Then we moved to the garden and looked at the soil. Still nothing grow. Therefore, I gave each child a pumpkin seed to be planted in their recycled pot. Then happily we moved back to class to do our worksheet today.
Most of the children had completed their colouring. I wrote down the sentences that the children made last week on the whiteboard. Each child got a bowl with jumbled words in it. They have to re-arrange the sentences again. This time, the word - pumpkin, appeared at these 3 sentences, I reminded the children to look carefully which to use especially one of the "pumpkin" word is the last word of the sentence. It followed by a punctuation - full stop.
I'm glad to see that most of the children could follow instruction and observed the word correctly.
Book Sharing - Pancake
Date: 3rd September 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Book Sharing - Pancake by Eric Carle
The children had their music class today, therefore, our class will only begin from 10:30-11:00am.
I had this book in hand which gives a very clear concept for the children to understand about ingredients when we cook. This simple yet interesting book - Pancake by Eric Carle introduces the source of those ingredients we need to cook a pancake.
Pancake by Eric Carle
A boy named Jack who requested his mother to make him a pancake. However, Jack needed to collect all the ingredients that his mother asked for from the farm or the storage room.
The children had a chance to think about it before I revealed the answer to them.
They had some fun time making guesses.
Tomorrow we shall deal with the pumpkin dough that we had left in the refrigerator since last Friday. Most probably we shall cook it as pumpkin sweet dumpling.
The children had their music class today, therefore, our class will only begin from 10:30-11:00am.
I had this book in hand which gives a very clear concept for the children to understand about ingredients when we cook. This simple yet interesting book - Pancake by Eric Carle introduces the source of those ingredients we need to cook a pancake.
Pancake by Eric Carle
A boy named Jack who requested his mother to make him a pancake. However, Jack needed to collect all the ingredients that his mother asked for from the farm or the storage room.
The children had a chance to think about it before I revealed the answer to them.
They had some fun time making guesses.
Tomorrow we shall deal with the pumpkin dough that we had left in the refrigerator since last Friday. Most probably we shall cook it as pumpkin sweet dumpling.
Worksheet - Pumpkin Seeds with numbers
Date: 2nd September 2014
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Worksheet - Pumpkin Seeds with numbers
I wanted to make use of the pumpkin seeds that the children had dug out from the pumpkin last week. So I prepared a worksheet for the children to work on it today. I divided the paper into 6 column equally. Then in each column I wrote numbers from one to six. None of the paper has the same sequence of numbers written on it. Therefore, the children themselves have to recognise the numbers and paste the pumpkin seeds on it accordingly.
Before I hand out the worksheet to them, we did some practice on the whiteboard. From my observation, most of the children could recognise "one" to "six". Only a few of them got some numbers mixed up. At the last part. I wrote the number and the children draw the dots accordingly. With the correct answer, I left it on the whiteboard as a reference for the children.
Some of the children could do it without referring to the whiteboard, while some kept looking at it for an answer.
We shall continue with the pumpkin colouring and language activity that the children had not completed last week.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Worksheet - Pumpkin Seeds with numbers
I wanted to make use of the pumpkin seeds that the children had dug out from the pumpkin last week. So I prepared a worksheet for the children to work on it today. I divided the paper into 6 column equally. Then in each column I wrote numbers from one to six. None of the paper has the same sequence of numbers written on it. Therefore, the children themselves have to recognise the numbers and paste the pumpkin seeds on it accordingly.
Before I hand out the worksheet to them, we did some practice on the whiteboard. From my observation, most of the children could recognise "one" to "six". Only a few of them got some numbers mixed up. At the last part. I wrote the number and the children draw the dots accordingly. With the correct answer, I left it on the whiteboard as a reference for the children.
Some of the children could do it without referring to the whiteboard, while some kept looking at it for an answer.
We shall continue with the pumpkin colouring and language activity that the children had not completed last week.
Pumpkin Dessert
Date: 30th August 2014
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Pumpkin Dessert
I saw a pumpkin dessert recipe where the ingredients are quite easy. So I thought maybe I could introduce to the children. We shall try it out today.
The ingredients for the pumpkin dessert are as followed:
1) 200g pumpkin (cut and steamed soft)
2) 100g glutinous rice flour
3) 2-3 tablespoon of sugar (it depends how sweet you preferred)
4) some oil for cooking
Looking at the recipe, I understand that the ratio of the pumpkin with the glutinous rice flour is 2:1. Therefore, after I have cut the pumpkin into small pieces, I weigh it first. It was about 700g. Therefore, I needed about 350g of glutinous rice flour. I steamed the pumpkin for about 15 minutes before taking it into the class.
I thought I could get the children to roll the dough once I'm done with it. Unfortunately, mixing the pumpkin with the glutinous rice flour into a dry dough took quite some time. Finally, the children could only observed and couldn't lay their hand due to insufficient time.
I rolled the dough in my hand, it was quite sticky but much better compared to the beginning. Yet, frying the dessert on the hot pan takes quite some time than expected. As a result, the children only get to see and wait for the dessert to be ready.
I only cooked the dessert according to the numbers of children. The leftovers are kept in the refrigerator for future usage.
The children had the dessert as part of their snack time today. They feedback to me saying that the dessert is delicious. I'm glad to hear that.
Note: The six years old children will switch to a brand new time table for September and October. They will be attending the pre-primary programme. Therefore, only the 5 years old children will continue to join the thematic class. Besides that, the English thematic class' schedule will be changed to 10:00-11:00am from September onwards.
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Pumpkin Dessert
I saw a pumpkin dessert recipe where the ingredients are quite easy. So I thought maybe I could introduce to the children. We shall try it out today.
The ingredients for the pumpkin dessert are as followed:
1) 200g pumpkin (cut and steamed soft)
2) 100g glutinous rice flour
3) 2-3 tablespoon of sugar (it depends how sweet you preferred)
4) some oil for cooking
Looking at the recipe, I understand that the ratio of the pumpkin with the glutinous rice flour is 2:1. Therefore, after I have cut the pumpkin into small pieces, I weigh it first. It was about 700g. Therefore, I needed about 350g of glutinous rice flour. I steamed the pumpkin for about 15 minutes before taking it into the class.
I thought I could get the children to roll the dough once I'm done with it. Unfortunately, mixing the pumpkin with the glutinous rice flour into a dry dough took quite some time. Finally, the children could only observed and couldn't lay their hand due to insufficient time.
I rolled the dough in my hand, it was quite sticky but much better compared to the beginning. Yet, frying the dessert on the hot pan takes quite some time than expected. As a result, the children only get to see and wait for the dessert to be ready.
I only cooked the dessert according to the numbers of children. The leftovers are kept in the refrigerator for future usage.
The children had the dessert as part of their snack time today. They feedback to me saying that the dessert is delicious. I'm glad to hear that.
Note: The six years old children will switch to a brand new time table for September and October. They will be attending the pre-primary programme. Therefore, only the 5 years old children will continue to join the thematic class. Besides that, the English thematic class' schedule will be changed to 10:00-11:00am from September onwards.
Book Sharing - How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin? (Part II)
Date: 29th August 2014
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Book Sharing-How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin? (Part II)
We continue with the pumpkin seeds book. We left out on where the children in Mr Tiffin's class counted the pumpkin seeds. Then from then on, Charlie could queue up as the first children of the class as he is the shortest one yet his small pumpkin has the most seeds compared to the other 2 bigger pumpkins.
The children were thrilled to know that our pumpkin's seeds has more than Charlie's little pumpkin. There were some other information about pumpkin at the back of the book. We covered that too.
As of today, I also prepared a picture of a pumpkin for the children to colour. I planned to do some language activity after that. However, the children only got time to make some sentences and do the colouring today. We shall continue with this activity in the future.
The sentences that the children had made for our future activity:
1) This is a pumpkin.
2) The pumpkin is sweet.
3) The pumpkin has a lot of seeds.
2014年9月1日星期一
Count and Read
Date: 28th
August 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time:
3:00-4:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Count and Read
Since the children were doing counting
these few days, with this opportunity, I brought in the words of numbers to
teach them. We had it as an activity. I have some small flash cards from “one
to ten”.
I divided the children into 3 in a group.
There were 7 groups altogether. Then each group member will pick a card without
looking at the words of numbers. By reading the cards, they needed to pick the
numbers of toys accordingly. This is to familiarize the children with the names
of the numbers instead of just knowing how to count it. We had this for 3
rounds. The children were enjoying the activity.
I had printed out a picture of a big
pumpkin for the children to colour. I guided the children to make sentences by
looking at the pumpkin picture.
Derek: The pumpkin is tasty.
Harraz: The pumpkin is sweet.
Kern Ee: The pumpkin is very hard.
Jing Heng / Chloe: This is an orange
pumpkin.
Phey Zheng: Pumpkin is so big.
Kwan Ming: The pumpkin has a lot of
seeds.
We discussed about which sentences to use
for our next activity. Finally, the children agreed with the following
sentences:
1)
This is a pumpkin.
2)
The pumpkin is sweet.
3)
The pumpkin has a lot of seeds.
I gave the pumpkin picture for the
children to colour. I shall prepare the sentences for the children to carry out
the sentence arrangement activity next week.
Count the Pumpkin Seeds
Date: 27th
August 2014
Day: Wednesday
Time:
3:00-4:00pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Yummy Food
Teacher: Teacher Yeong
Count the Pumpkin Seeds
I placed those pumpkin seeds under the
hot sun for a day yesterday. Therefore, today, it’s ready to be used. Since the
children had given the guesses yesterday, today, we shall count the pumpkin
seeds.
I divided the children into 2 in a group
and gave them some pumpkin seeds each. The children decided to count the
pumpkin seeds in ten. At first, only one or two groups of children managed to
understand the concept of counting the pumpkin seeds in 10. Most of the
children needed guidance and demonstration. However, after a few rounds of
monitoring, the children managed to tell me the numbers of pumpkin seeds that
they had counted. The total of pumpkin seeds are 474. The children were amazed
with that numbers as it was just a small pumpkin.
From this activity the children also
learned to cooperate with their friends in getting the task done though some of
them started to argue and I have to get involved in settling the argument.
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