Melon Seed Cookies

Monday (08/01/2010)
a) Welcome, Aunty Khoo. b) Steps of the process. c) Recording.

a) Welcome, Aunty Khoo!
· We greeted Mrs. Khoo, Zheng Yuan’s mother. We were very lucky and happy to have her as she bakes very well.
· We were making “Melon Seed” cookies. She introduced the ingredients. They are the flour, an egg, sugar, melon seeds, vanilla essence and butter. Tools used were the mixer, oven, trays, bowls, spoons, filter and also the forks.

b) Steps of the process.
*First, the butter was mixed into the flour. Fine sugar was added. Then, they were mixed together and blended with an egg, melon seeds and also some vanilla essence. They were mixed for about 6 minutes. The colour changed from golden yellow to almost creamy white.
Chun Kit: “Why do we need to blend them?”
Aunty Khoo: So that they will be smooth and taste delicious.
· When it was ready, each kid was given a bowl and a spoonful of the mixture. Aunty Khoo explained to them how to roll and round the dough into small balls. Ecah kid could make at least 5 rounds. Then, they used a fork to press on the dough surface; as to make patterns. They really enjoyed themselves. Aunty Khoo reminded them not to make the dough to big as they will rise and become bigger upon heating in the oven.
· While baking, we sang our favourite song, “The Thinking Song”. We also sang Chinese New Year song of English version. J

c) Recording.
· The kids recapped the ingredients used and the steps involved. Thus, I drew the pictures on the whiteboard and labelled them properly. About half of the kids could copy quite well from the whiteboard despite mirror-imaged letters.
· Then, they came to tell me about their pictures. They coloured them. Finally, we thanked Aunty Khoo who had helped us a lot for the Haiti Fund Raising Sale. Bravo!