Saturday, June 26, 2010

Making cookies 2

This is how you make cookies:

1. Measure the correct amount of flour and sugar.

2. Beat the eggs.

3. Mix everything together.














4. Crush the cornflakes.



5. Roll the dough into small balls.














6. Roll the little dough-balls in the crushed cornflakes (almost ready for the oven).

7. Put the tray into the oven. Ting! it's ready.

8. That's how our cookies look like.


9. Mission accomplished!






10. Yummy! Yummy! Yum! Yum! Time to enjoy our cookies.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Building a house

Positioning the box to build a house.

Should we lay it flat? We can only sit.
Let the box be upright; too few people can go in.
But it will be the right height for all.










Features of a house

Let's make a door.
We need windows too.
The roof must be like that /\ (hand signed by a child)
Why? Because the rain. Let the rain falls (good idea...in another words so that we don't trap rain water in the roof)
How about doorbell?

These are the questions, answers and statements made when we were busy working on the house. Everyone has their share of thoughts and ideas. It was noisy at times when everyone are eager to contribute their ideas and also talk about their own house (in comparison to the house we made).

Finally, we decided that the box is too small to make a house. We decided to call it a stall. With the stall, we can play sell burgers.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Froggy Froggy

During one of the animal theme lesson; I was lucky to have caught a frog for the children study the frog up-close. It was only two days ago; I read a book about FROG... features of frog ... big goggling eyes, webbed feet, slimy skin, wide mouth, etc, etc...how frog moves, etc

Now, the children can look at the frog in front of them and don't have to imagine what is webbed feet, what is big goggling eyes, wide mouth, slimy skin and those things that we learnt from the book. And the frog was resting and also look back at the children :)

"Let's see what will happen; if I add in some water"; I said. Jolin reminded me "Not too much water" (I think she's worry that I may drown the frog).

So I poured in some water into the container. The frog began to swim. Now, the children can see the webbed feet clearly.










Another child requested for me to add in more water to see what will happen. So...in went the water. Nothing happen. The frog just continued to swim; but at times the frog will rest with two hind legs stretching out. The children could see the difference that the frog resting in dry environment (refer the first picture) and in water (the picture below).



So much to learn from this simple observation. Interesting isn't it?