Tuesday (03/02/2009)
a) The Jade Kingdom’s birthday.
* The kids saw many people prayed the night before.
* About 10 kids on my class also prayed. The others said they heard a lot of fire crackers. Song Chuan’s family lit the fire crackers.
* We talked about the different Chinese ethnics in Malaysia. Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Teo Chew and many more.
* They learnt that there are many Hokkiens in Penang followed by Klang and Melaka. Cantonese are popular in K.L. Hakka are usually famous in Sabah.
* We talked about the food that people offered to the Jade Kingdom.
b) Sugarcane and Pomelo.
Pomelo is to bring goof luck to the family. Good health, wealth and prosperity.
Sugarcane because of the past history. The Hokkiens were chased by some Japanese people during the war. Suddenly, they saw a huge Sugarcane plantation. They quickly hide in it. Not only they were saved but the war ended. It happened many years ago on the eve on Chinese new year ninth day. Thus, Hokkiens will offer the sweet sugarcane as “kam siah” or thank you to the Jade Kingdom.
c) We enjoyed eating Pomelo.
The kids learned to peel the Pomelo. Each took turn. It was most difficult at the beginning. As it goes on, it got easier. The kids even peeled them off.
We enjoyed the fruit. Sharlene and Jian Wei didn’t like it.
Song Chuan people use the skin to make medicine. Yun Zhe said if we leave the skin in the room temperature, there would be mold. Thus, we must leave them under the hot sun. Thus, we agreed to try out his idea.
d) Video clips
We watched the pictures of “Jade Kingdom” and “The Door Gof”.
We also saw how the Hokkiens celebrated Jade Kingdom’s birthday.
The kids learnt about jossstick and could now relate better to what they see.
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