Let's make some Healthy Popsicle!

 

Inspired  by "Beat the heat, Singapore Zoo style" article that was shared during Current Affairs session, we took a step by making ourselves a Cool, Healthy Popsicle to beat the heat too！ 

 

Asian elephants Jati and Gambir. Jati keeps cool with a plus-sized popsicle. (Photo: Wildlife Reserves Singapore)

 

Watch us in action!

 

 

 

Ethan: Can I have more yoghurt?

Enzo slices his strawberry and banana.

Niqeil enjoys slicing the strawberry too.

Everyone chose their coloured popsicle mould.

Time to pour the yoghurt into the popsicle holder.

Jazanne  stuffed her fruits into the yogurt and mixed them well.

Time to eat! It feels so cooling and soothing. Yum, Yum!

 

Sharing of current affairs widen the childrens' knowledge.  Do share short articles from newspapers to keep our kids updated with what's happening out of home and school.

 

Let's make some chicky dee burger!!!

In collaboration with the theme, Farm Animals and Pets, the children have their monthly Cookery Session by making Chicky Dee Burger! The children get to learn to use a varierty of ingredients such as minced chicken, egg, oats, mixed vegetables, salt and pepper to make the burger patty.  It is a very interesting session for them.

 

We are all prepared for our cookery!

 

Eu Yi is having a fun time mixing the minced chicken with eggs.

Jing Xuan is stiring the egg with mixed vegetables.

Yee Ann is guiding her friends to flatten the patty.

Chrishaun is seen reshaping his patty.

I can fry egg too!

Well, this is how the rest of our chicky-dee burger patty looks like. Yum...Yum...Yum!

 

Children are independent learners and they are able to do simple chores by themselves.  Helping to prepare their own meal at home is a great way to be independent.  Get this simple recipe and have a healthy home-cooked yummy chicken burger.

Sandplay

 

 

 

When children play in sandboxes together, they learn about teamwork and sharing particularly if there is only one sand pail. The tactile experience of this kind of soft play allows them to express feelings as they may be too young to verbalize.

 



The children have Sandplay on every Tuesday.  They work with dry sand and sandplay equipment in a huge sand trough.

During this sandplay activity, they learnt to work together by taking turns and sharing of equipments.

Most of the time, the children are very focused when they are exploring with sand and sandplay equipments of their choice.

The children developed their eye-hand co-ordination as they scoop the sand from one place to another.

The children have a variety of moulds to work with such as alphabet, animal or shape moulds to extend their learning experience.



They have another trough for wet sandplay too.



Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood

 

Cookie for Father's Day!

Look at all those ingredients placed on the table.

Let's taste the cream cheese. Yummy, it is tasty!

Time to scoop 2spoons of margarine.

I've scooped all the ingredients required:

1) Half cup of milo powder

2) 50g of cream cheese

3) 2 spoons of margarine 

4) Half cup of flour

I still see some milo at the bottom of the cup!

Time to mash!

After mashing, we may start to work on our dough to decorate into a character that we have planned earlier!

It is an extension activity based on the story 'Where the wild things are!'.

We hope all Daddies have tried the cookies made by your child and savour it with love! 

Chocolate Fudge just for Daddy!

I've finished scooping all the milo powder.

Let's count how many scoops I need. 

It's great to have Audrey participating in cookery too!

Ellcus in action! Let's scoop and mix the margarine.

My turn to add the cream cheese.

Let me focus and stir the mixture altogether! 

After the mixture, we are able to transfer into the cupcake holder for Daddy's Day chocolate fudge!  

I can "Cook" too!

Chocolate-y Fudge in a bag. 

We made chocolate fudge for our cookery this month. Something simple that children can experience it themselves. Cookery is one way in which children can learn more about themselves as they use their senses to 

prepare the food. Enjoy the photos!

Keira is focused on scooping the sugar into her plastic bag so that it will not spill on the table.

             We all had our turns too! 

Let's continue to scoop Milo powder      while Janelle add some cream cheese.

Once we are done, Ms Aainaa helps to tie the plastic bag so that we may practice our fine motor skill in mixing the ingredients together with our fingers.

       Take a look! It's all mixed evenly :)

            We are almost done too!

That's really a lot of fingers muscles required and good focusing to ensure all ingredients are mixed well! 

Children had fun preparing the fudge in a bag. It is so easy as no cooking is needed! 

The ingredients that they require are:

50g cream cheese, 

1cup of cocoa powder/milo

Half cup of sugar 

2 spoons of margarine

Mixed them up in a bag and you're done! Good job, children!

Fruit Salad - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

 

The PNs are making their own Fruit Salad based on the Story - The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

They are introduced to a variety of fruits such as apples, pears, plums, strawberries and oranges.  They count the number of fruits too as they make their fruit salad.

 

 

Zhi Yuan's favourite fruit is apple.

Faith counted the number of pears.  She said,"Two pears!"

Yi Cheng was excited to touch the plum.  It was his first time tasting it in school.

"How many oranges are there?" Cloey said ,"Five oranges!" she said as she counted them.

The children used plastic knives to cut their fruits.

They cut their fruits patiently. 

Quinny loves the oranges.  It's the first fruit she took.

Denzel was busy removing the leaves from the strawberries.  He then used the plastic knife to dice the strawberry.

This is their favourite session.  Tasting their own fruit salad.

Caleb definitely loves the strawberries.  He ate it all instantly.

With this mouth-watering session, the children learnt to prepare and make their own fruit salad.  Mom and Dad, you can get your children to be involved in food preparation at home too.  This will encourage your children to explore and taste a variety of food that are healthy!