Let's make some yummy houses from food assembling! Yum...Yum...Yum!

The children had a wonderful time assembling their food to represent the types of houses they live in and what they had learnt for the week. Some of them wanted to assemble houses they liked. Most of them could recall the names of the houses. We learnt about HDB buildings, semi-detached, condominium and bungalows. The children were very excited to learn about the various types of houses and had so much to talk about.

Jing Xuan was keen to make a bungalow. She was seen happily talking to her friends as she chose her ingredients :-)

Kai Le was walking around the table, looking at all the ingredients and was deciding on what to choose.

Eu Yi was so proud that she assembled her food into a condominium and she mentioned that she lives in a condominium too.

Elysha chose to assemble a bungalow as she loves the swimming pool in the picture card.

 

Ern Yu wanted to assemble her food into a condominium as she mentioned she lives in a condominium.

Kai Le formed a HDB flat. He mentioned that he wouldn't want to waste food so he chose minimum number of food ingredients to form a HDB flat.

Jing Xuan formed a bungalow and could identify the shapes of the food ingredients.

Chloe spent time forming her HDB flat. She added raisins to represent the number of storeys in a flat. She also formed a playground.

Jovan had so much to share about the activities he does around his house and neighbourhood. He mentioned that he lives in a HDB flat and loves to play at the playground near his house. He formed a HDB flat and said the raisins on the bread are windows.

 

Children were seen talking and eating happily after their creation.

 

Types of houses - HDB flat vs Private house

We walked
and viewed different types of private houses such as the terraces and bungalows. We saw some houses have swimming pools.

Ms Fizah explained to all of us the differences between a HDB flat and a private house.

We saw buildings such as a neighbourhood mall that is near the houses.

We crossed over to view the HDB flats.

We walked to view a big bungalow house along Cedarwood Grove!

To vegetable farm we go!

 

On a hot sunny Tuesday, we made our way to the Aero-Green Technology. We were introduced to the different ways, in which the plants are planted. This farm uses soil, hydroponic as well as aeroponic method. Children walked around the farm, to learn more about the different types of plants available in the farm. We ended the visit by eating freshly plucked guavas... Yum yum... :)

 

                                    

Look at our excited faces! We have just arrived!

  

 

"Why the banana green colour, Ms Aainaa?" asked Raphael.

 

Hey! Let's explore this big farm. What do they have for us?

 Hmmm.... This basil leaf smells nice.

Let's strike a pose with the banana plant.

The final pose :)

Scents around me

In the month of January, the N1 children were exploring their senses. Teacher brought in some cinnamon sticks, rose buds, jasmine flowers and perfume. Children had the opportunity to see, touch, feel and smell the items. 

Children learnt that their five senses are special, and it has its own purpose. We can't do without any of it!

You may also like to reinforce the extension that we have done by blindfolding and get them to smell or touch and guess the item! 

How our stomach works

In the month January, the Kindergarten children talked about the stomach and how it mechanically squishes the food up even more. Teacher introduced the idea of stomach acid that continues to break down and soften the food even more. Here are the pictures of the Kindergarten doing the experiment. 

We discussed about digestive acid in the stomach again, and showed them what happened when we added some vinegar to the green water to make our pretend stomach  acid. The kids were asked to be the stomachs, to mush the crackers up so that our pretend body could digest it. Next up, intestines! We used the stocking and cut off the toe, and used the empty water cup to hold it open, cut the corner off the ziplocks and had the kids helped to squeeze the stomach contents into the intestines. They were showed how the lining of the intestines was permeable- it lets some oozy stuff out which we called it as the nutrients. It was explained that the blood vessels came right up next to the intestines and let the blood pick up food for all the hungry cells. As we squeezed more of the mush through the nylon, more of it came out the sides as nutrients, and the stuff in the middle got smaller. I asked them which was bigger, all the food we eat in a day piled together or the poop we have on the following day, and pointed out that that’s because our body takes in and keeps all the good stuff and pushes the rest out as poop. The grand finale, of course, was when the nylon finally pooped out the leftover green-cracker-mush-pretend-poop. Messy but totally worth it! 

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