Our very own Pasta Necklaces! 

After learning how to string beads earlier in the week, the playgroup class decided to have an art & craft activity and create some pasta necklaces. Not only did it allow the children to express their personalities through the different coloured pastas, it also helped them to develop their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. 

Mya giving her first shot at stringing the pennes together.

She also names the different colours of the penne pasta!

"I want to wear my necklace for outdoor time!" says Mya eagerly. Such a pretty necklace, isn't it? :) 

Chun Hian had a little difficulty at the beginning and expressed frustration but....

He managed to do it after a few tries! Great job indeed!

Here he is, satisfied and happy with his necklace :)

Tsara creating her necklace with confidence and concentration.

Hard work pays off! Tsara looks good with her new accessory.

Gerard is doing well!

He is also naming the different colours of the penne pasta.

The final product- Gerard's colour necklace!

Jia Guan was a little frustrated when he could not do it at first.

But with practice and a little help, he managed to do it as well :)

Posing with his new accessory and feeling proud.

Sumi feeling happy with her completed penne necklace! She even said that she wanted to bring it home for mummy. 

This activity also allowed children to regulate their emotions: from feeling frustrated to being determined to complete the task and eventually feeling proud of completing the task. Cheers to a boost in self-confidence and time of fun! 

Sandpaper Shapes Collage!

Before this activity, the children have actually explored things that are of different textures like rough, smooth, hard and soft. The children were able to relate to the rough texture that can be felt on the sand paper. They also gave different facial expressions as they explore the texture of the sand paper.

Apart from learning about texture, the children also had fun learning about the different shapes around them. Some new shapes that they have learnt are such as diamond, oval and star. They enjoyed relating the shapes to songs that they love such as twinkle twinkle little stars.

Lets take a look at the pictures of the children in action! :)

 Ouch! The texture of the sandpaper is rough! – Eureka

This is a triangle! – Jia Guan

Teacher Nani. Twinkle twinkle little star! – Jia Ling

I like the smooth paper. – Kai Yun

This is rough! This is smooth! – Mya

Big rectangle! Small rectangle! - Tian Shuo

See. Nice… – Yu Xiang

“老师,这个是小熊和大熊。”家源指着两只熊说。“那你指给老师看，这两只熊有什么地方不一样。”老师说。家源看了看指着熊的耳朵说：“这只耳朵和这只耳朵不一样。”老师: “怎么不一样?”家源: “这个大,这个小。”

“萌萌，你能告诉老师绿色的苹果在哪里吗? ”老师问。“在这里。”萌萌说。“那你能找出和它一样颜色的苹果吗？”老师问。萌萌用食指和中指指着两个绿色的苹果说：“萌萌找到了。”

老师问：“小朋友，这里哪两样是一样颜色的?”汉胜: “这个帽子和这个帽子是一样颜色的.”老师: “是什么颜色呢?”汉胜:“是红色的。” “它们一样吗？”老师说。汉胜:　“这个小。”


老师问：“哪位小朋友能帮老师找到和苹果﹑香蕉﹑梨一样颜色的小球。”Mya手里拿着一个红色的小球放在红苹果上, 然后把绿色的小球放在香蕉的图案上。当她要把另一个红色的小球放在苹果上时, 她发现到绿色小球的位置是错的, 于是,她说: “wrong
! (不对!)是这里。”她就把它移到梨的图案上。

老师出示了两张图片。老师问：“谁能告诉老师图片上面的两只动物是什么? ”
“老师是熊。”毅勋说。“那你能告诉老师，小熊应该戴哪顶帽子，穿哪件衣服呢？”毅勋说：“可以,小熊要戴这个小的帽子和穿这个小的的衣服.”
“那大熊可以戴小的帽子和穿小的衣服吗?老师问。毅勋:
“不可以,它要戴的帽子和穿大的衣服。”

老师指着一堆小球说：“小朋友们这些小球是什么颜色的？”“有红色和绿色。”天翼说。“那你能帮老师把绿色的小球和红色的小球分别放到两个盘子里吗？”老师问天翼。天翼说：“可以.”于是天翼把两种颜色的小球进行分类。

五个手指头
五个小指头,
干活一起动.
手绢自己洗,
鞋带自己系,
自己穿的衣,
自己铺的被.
小小手儿,
最爱劳动.

小手拍拍,小脚踏踏
小手小手拍拍,
我的小手举起来.
小手小手拍拍,
我的小手抱起来.
小手小手拍拍,
我的小手藏起来.
小脚小脚踏踏,
我的小脚走起来.

Marie Biscuits Sweet Delights!

Home science lesson is a simple cookery lesson that is conducted on every Friday. Children are introduced to simple recipe where they will help out to prepare the delicacies which they will enjoy at the end of the day!

Home science lessons not only allow the children to explore their taste buds but they get their hands busy as they have fun during the preparations. They are in charge of mixing,pouring, shaping and even moulding the food!

As the children learn more about the ingredients that are being used, they uses their sense of smell, taste and even touch to get to know the food that they will be working on for the day.

Anson and Micheal carefully took out the biscuit and placed them into a ziplock bag as they count the number of biscuit that goes into the bag.

As they rolled the rolling pin, they also shared idea as how to prevent the ziplock bag from moving as they rolled. It allow them to think of a creative solution to solve the problem.

Tian Yi, Jialing and Micheal took turn to hold the rolling pin to crush the biscuits in the zip lock bag.

Jialing then took the bottle of honey and squeezed out the honey for the crushed biscuits. She swirled the honey all over the bowl.

Kai Yun then helped to scoop five spoonful of non-fat milk powder to be added into the mixture. The rest of the children helped Kai Yun to count as she does it.

As Teacher Nani helped Jaylen to roll the mixture into small balls, Jaylen just could not wait to enjoy the delights and he popped it into his mouth.

Simeng too popped it into her mouth as soon as she managed to roll it into a small ball. She smiled and licked off the honey from her fingers and asked for more!