Xmas Party - December (ORG)

Ho Ho Ho, It's Christmas again!

We are so excited this time

as we have lots to do!

First we read a story about Santa having a New Jet!

It was interesting as this book does relate

to our modern world, in my opinion it is

suitable to both gender; although we have

an all girls reading group here!

Santa's New Jet by David Biedrzycki.

After the story-telling session,

we continue with our Christmas Cooking activity.

Oh don't forget to wash hands first!

Here, showing the children some

ingredients and let them taste and smell some of it.

We are making Christmas Squares! Easy and neat.

We are doing it all by ourselves.

Some make it round too, using the moulds.

I know all mommies been waiting patiently for the recipe...

I hope you all can try it at home with your child too.

It is easy and most of all, no mess at all.

Best of all it is yummy!

 

Christmas Squares

1/2 cup oats

1 tbsp. sesame seeds

2 tbsp. mini marshmallows

2 tbsp. cranberries

4 tbsp. Honey

2 tbsp. Sunflower oil

Tiny bit of vanilla essence

 

Preheat Oven to 160 degrees.

Line baking sheet with baking paper.

Mix dry ingredients all together.

Then add honey, oil, vanilla essence.

Use spoon pour on the baking sheet and tap it thin and flat.

Bake for about 20 minutes, and let it cool for 10 minutes.

When it is cool, it should be able to break it into small pieces;

and keep it in an air tight container.

Viola!

Here are the examples of the round shape Christmas squares!

Ok I forgot to take pictures of the

other squares as they were quickly

being eaten or put into the container. LOL.

Next, we have the kids do lots of things for this

mini picture that they can hang on their wall.

Stencilling, tracing, drawing, colouring, cutting and paste!

Last but not least, this time, they have to write the

Merry Christmas wording and put down their names!

After all the activity, exchanging presents time!

The stockings were full now with little presents and sweets.

Here are the children hugging each other for the

photo with the Christmas tree!

 

Thanks again to all that participate,

the children really have fun!

The Joy of Mandala.

It's November! We are going to learn about Mandala!

 Yes, you heard me right, mandala.

It's for the kids to learn something about

inner peace and shapes and symmetry.

According to Wikipedia, In common use, mandala has become

a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern

that represents the cosmos metaphysically or

symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.

 

Here we have the kids drawing circles and shapes,

I want them to choose their own colour and draw them carefully

and use the shapes that they like.

After drawing all the shapes they have to paint the whole picture.

This does shows the character of the child and what they prefer and

how patience they are too.

Next the children did a Family Mandala.

They get to think about what each family member like

and prefer. What colour that they

choose for their individual member in the family.

It's interesting to see how they

think and draw things that represent each family member.

Finally, We are making it big!

The children get to cooperate and create a big mandala

using recycle items. Each of the kids get to carefully place

the individual items carefully around in a circle.

I am quite amaze that they already know the concept of mandala;

before I explain, they already know what to do!

Lastly, they are proud of their creation!

It was fun and interesting for them to

play this big mandala game!

 

Thank you all for that participate, we all had fun!

Wording dice game for kids.

Here is something that I have created for my Screen-Free mission!

My 4 year old has started to do some reading and writing,

so I intended to do some revision with her.

This is what I come out with after spotting an

interesting Art dice game! (Which you may want to try too!)

Well nevertheless, this is what I did. 

First I got some black wooden square blocks and

painted them in some pastel colours.

I have 6 different colours for each side.

I asked my 4 year old to help, and she did only the pink!

I did the rest..... lol.

After that I use different colour sharpies to write on the cubes.

I have asked my child simple questions like:

1. How do you feel?

2. What animal do you like?

3. What body parts can you name?

4. What kind of action words you can think of?

5. Name the colour.

6. What kind of pattern you can think of?

7. Name different type of skin for the animals.

8. Describe the sizes.

Well, you can come out with many different descriptions too! 

I also did ask my girl to try to spell simple words.

Of course, she must able to understand all the words written too.

Now, we start playing by rolling

the dice and stacked it up accordingly.

I would help her on the arrangement

of words; which one come first and all.

She just love stacking it up, using

some of the motor skills here too!

After that, I would ask her to copy the sentence on

an exercise book; draw it and colour it!

Also I ask her to read each word accordingly.

She totally enjoyed this and wanted to play again!

So this is the second sentence that she come out with!

I use a lot of descriptions here, but you can try it differently.

Also I might add in some sight words for her to learn as well.

 

I hope this gives you some inspirations!

Thanks for stopping by.

If you try this differently don't mind sharing it here too!

Texture Sensory Bin for Baby

It's sensory bins again!

Well, I need to let my 13m old try something new.

So I call this Texture sensory bin.

Things you need:

Paper

Foil

Tissues

Cotton wool

Bubble wrap

Plastic wrap

 

Throw everything in a bin then

scrunch, squeeze and tear 

all different materials in front of baby.

I did try to let baby feel every single material on his skin!

 

Have fun!

 

Hermit Crab ~ November (ORG)

It's the month of November again! Time just flies!

We are back again this time with Eric Carle book!

We just love his books, don't we?

The children just love those stories. Lots of questions ask and answered!  

 

Now we had to do some art with it!

We are making handprints and

drawing a hermit crab should not be as hard!

Children just love doing arts!

 

Now here are those lovely artwork!

See how they draw the things relate to the

undersea world...

 

Well, we had our lovely November Baby celebrating her birthday!

Our children just love parties and presents!

We had a mini baby shower for

our 2 lovely mommies,

both are due real real soon!

A boy and A girl coming in soon!!

 

Thanks for all who participated!

Love is on the way....

The Gratitude / Thankful Jar Game

It's nearly end of the year, so time to teach some gratitude to our little ones!

A lot of people will link it to Thanksgiving and other festival;

as I do not really celebrate Thanksgiving, but I want to teach my child about

Gratitude, Being appreciative and Respect. 

So here it is, The Thankful Jar!

Things that you need:

Colourful Paper

Sharpies

A Jar

*Stickers - optional

Now begin to write sentences like:

I am Thankful for............

I am Grateful for.............

Well, one can be thankful for anything at all actually.

After that, I ask my little one to think what she wants

to do for that person, pet, thing, etc....

Then I write it down below and ask her to decorate it with some stickers!

Then I ask her to fold it up herself and put it in the jar.

Now, it's all done, but you still can decorate the jar itself

with your own favourite cloth or ribbons!

 

Now we start playing the game every single day in the morning.

She will need to pick a piece of the paper from the jar,

and do what she is requested on the paper.

Example:

"I am thankful to grandpa for buying me ice-cream!"

*Action: I will give grandpa a big Hug!

Then she will need to do that on that particular day!

 

Feeling excited now? My girl is!

Hope you will like this activity!

 

I have got this idea from, and modify a bit: 

Gratitude Activity Jar by Inner Child Fun

 

Feeling Gratitude and not

Expressing it is like wrapping

a present and not giving it.

~ William Arthur Ward

 

 

4th Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival 2013

October is Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival! (PINKS)

So ORG has decided to participate in their storytelling activity.

We actually went to listen to Roger Jenkins!

 

 

 ROGER JENKINS (UK) who won the Best Storyteller award at the 16th Kanoon International Storytelling Festival in Iran in Feb 2013. He is a popular performer and trainer in schools, libraries an...d community events. Thanks to his spontaneous, comedic, and often participatory style of telling. In 2012, he published a teacher's resource book for moral education in two volumes (Juniors and Teens) and has just released The Parent’s DVD Guide to Storytelling. 

The storytelling was interesting, Mr. Roger uses different techniques and props and tools.

Our little children was excited and a got a little tired at the end as the session was quite long for them.

Overall it was a good experience!

September Ballerinas - (ORG)

It's (ORG)September Reading again, and this time

the theme is:

Ballerina

Who does not love ballerinas?

Especially young little girls,

they just have to dress up like one too!

We start off with a book about a Ballerina

who loves to dance and tries to be perfect.

The Title is:

The Not So Perfect Ballerina

Written by: Nicola Baxter

Illustrated by: Pauline Siewert 

After the story telling sessions,

we started to do some simple stretching.

Just a warm up for them, and to

learn a little about ballerina stretching exercises.

 

Well by the end of the story, we ask the children to pose like a ballerina.

We also did teach them the Plié and 5 basic ballet positions.

See how lovely they are!

Here you can see that they are happily practising their skills.

Tip toeing, jumping, bending their knees, etc.

They are having so much fun!

Now the little ones do the final pose of a ballerina.

Lift one foot up and gracefully put your hands out to balance.

The Arabesque! Of course they all need a little help there.

I guess this was an introductory of ballet to all the kids.

Also, here only Little Tiff started formal ballet class

compare to all, and she did help

to show the other kids what it takes to be a ballerina.

Good job to all, hope you all learn to ballet now.

Oh yes, We are celebrating the September Kids birthday!

Here would like to wish,

Little Miss Olivia, and Cher Ru,

Happy Birthday to you girls!

 

Thanks to all that participate and mommies who had helped!

We all have a good time!

 

 

 

 

 

Crazy with Staccatos

I am so busy this September, but nevertheless I am excited too

to share with you all what we did for our one and only Music CAP.

Everyone was so excited on that day and tired too, because we all had so much fun!

First we start off with making some simple instruments using recycle stuff.

We made 2 different shaker and a mini bongo drum!  

See how concentrate I am! I am making my own shaker.

Well, we use some rice and beans for the shaker,

kids will get to make it all by themselves! 

See what we have made.

2 shakers and a mini bongo drum!

Next we had a Saxophonist, Mr. Alwin to demonstrate and introduce the saxophone to us!

He was great in explaining the sax to the kids! 

The kids get to touch and feel it!

It was a great experience for them to see it up-close! 

Then Mr. Alwin manage to play a tune for us,

a simple Twinkle little star song, with Jazzy feel. 

Then now we have a Chinese instrument call Er-Hu.

It is a 2-string Chinese violin.

I have learnt this instrument long ago while

at high school and use to perform with it,

so this time round I just play

 a simple tune for the kids ~ Row, Row, Row your Boat!

This Er-Hu is made of snake skin and Horse tail!

The kids get to feel and touch it too.

Next we have a Ukulele, a 4-string guitar. It is own by Little Shaznia.

She and her daddy did a demo for us too!  

Last but not least we had Mr. Senji who demonstrate his guitar for us!

He also sing a song for us all to enjoy too, the kids enjoys the music all too well.

He plays different tunes and rhythm

so the kids can make use of the shaker

and bongo drum that they made just now! 

 This is when the kids play together with Mr. Senji.

They did go all crazy with shaking and all.

Me and my drum!

 

 See I know how to shake with my shaker/ Rattle.

 

After all those shaking and music. Now we are going to explore our own music!

Time for water play using different materials.

I prepare a few metal bowls, some pipes,

pots and pans and bottlesfor the kids to explore.   

Here you can see that they prefer to pour the water around

and get so wet! They move pouring water around rather than

explore on the sound. But it is ok too and pouring does make sounds! 

Did we all have fun? Of course and thanks a lot to our musicians!

Mr. Alwin and Mr. Senji Thank you. Both of you make our CAP

more fun and interesting!

The kids just love it.

 

Thanks again to all who had participated!

You all make our CAP fun and cheerful.