CAP Cooking Class by Ms. Pearly (Nyonya Chef)

This is our second cooking class organised by CAP.

This time we had Ms.Pearly Kee who are

so kind to have us all mommies and children

around in her Home cook class.

Ms.Pearly is our own local Penang celebrity Nyonya chef.

We are going to cook some delicious Chicken Curry and Roti Jala.

Here are all our lovely mommies and their princesses.

The children age from the youngest 4-11.

All are junior master chef in the making..... lol.

 

We first started our class by touring the herb garden.

All the children get to see, smell and taste the different herb plants.

It is good that they get to see, smell, touch and taste at the same time.

One of our mommies, smelling the leaf... nice smell indeed!

Now here are some of the ingredients that we are using to cook our curry.

We introduce the ingredients to our children and they get to recognize the items.

We are using all our senses here!

 

Now the little one get started by peeling the potatoes!

See how concentrated she is on the skill that she is about to master.

All children get excited to cook, no matter how big or small the tasks is.

Here we have one of our mommy demonstrating

how to swirl the cup of batter on top of the pan.

This is how we cook the roti jala, or the kids call it spider pancake!

Looks like spider web they say, but yummy!

 

Here's our yummy looking chicken curry after cooking for an hour.

Looks delicious right, even our little ones try it and it is not that spicy!

Well you can add more chilli if you want to.

Here's all our mommies and children enjoying

our food after all the hard work.

Some of us even forgot to take off our apron!

The kids got so hungry after all the

cooking they just could not wait to get started!

Oh we had some homemade rosella drink as well.

Here is our group photo session.

We all had real fun, and learn a lot too!

The children had a blast!

 

 

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!

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.

 

Farm Animals in June ~ (ORG)

For the month of June, we gather again in this reading group for the theme:

FARM ANIMALS

Thanks to our story teller Ms.Fong.

As usual, we start off with story telling. Here our little children

practice interactive listening;

which is asking questions and learning what the story is about,

in the meantime, the children have to responds to all the questions asked.

Our reader did a good job in posing and answering all the questions.



Next we have some colouring going and

the children learn to identify the different farm animals.

 

Here we are having the Q&A sessions.

We ask the children some simple questions that relate to the

farm animals and they have to identify which animal it was.

All children did a great job in answering the questions.

I hope all children manage to learn something new this time!

We will have more Q&A sessions next time!

 

Thanks to all who participate!

See you all next time.

 

Oh something for all to share.

Animal / Baby

1. Rooster / Chick

2. Sheep / Lamb

3. Duck / Duckling

4. Goat / Kid

5. Cow / Calf

6. Pig / Piglet

7. Dog / Puppy

8. Horse / Foal

All about Insects...

In May, we attended a bugs workshop organised by Jungle classroom.

There are lots of activities for the children to understand and play.

It is mostly outdoor fun for all parents and kids!

Well here you can see that the tutors are reading a book

and explaining how the Hungry Caterpillar

is roaming around and eating all those food!

After explaining all the details about insects and how to identify a bug,

the children get to go off and catch one.

Later, they also make a colourful caterpillar.....

Do some exercise, play some games

and lastly, visit a pig farm!

Awesome!

 

 

 

Back to School in January ~ (ORG)

For the year 2013, we begin Our Reading Group (ORG) with a 

"Back to school" Theme since it is January!

 Here is our Book of the day, Elmo Goes to school!

 All children are concentrating hard on the questions and answer session.

 Here we have a Show & Tell session by all mommies.

 We have chosen, a pencil box, a school bag, a box of colour pencils and a file folder.

For all the Show and Tell, there will be lots of Q&A sessions and explanations. The children had to participate more and engaging in conversations. This practices their listening and language skills while also introducing new vocab. I do hope that all of them learn something from this reading group.

All of us Mommies do hope that next time it will be their turn to explain things to us! LOL....

Point to Circles Art Theme

The year 2013 our CAP starts off with an Art theme. 

Point to Circles was the concept for our first playgroup in 2013. 

We start off with a simple introduction to Pointillism Art. 

A brief intro to Seurat and Paul Signac; both were pointillism artists.

 After introducing the artists and about pointillism art; we started with the ART on MUG project. As we need to baked the mug so that the drawings will stay on, so we kicked start with all the doodling. 

 I am so impressed with all their creations, they were really drawing circles and points using different colors and techniques. Really fun watching them doing their Art piece!

Next we had all the kids doing points art work using cotton swaps, they really have fun dotting away!

 Here you can see all their masterpieces! Brilliant isn't!

 Next, I asked the children to counting points on each objects that I show to them; the idea is to let them count and know the shape. Here I do talked about 3 dimensional art! 

 Lastly, we have fun playing Pointing Game, all of the children were supposed to point at the different parts of the body and know their friends name too. It is a good way for them to learn the body parts!

Overall, I do hope they all have fun, thanks to all who participated and make this playgroup fun!