The Sugar Cane

Thursday (10/02/2011)

a) Parent Letter
l The content was about our Orphanage Charity whereby Pomegranate and Red Bean kids will be running a charity fund for an Orphanage Home in Kapar, Meru. The activity will be in our school hall on Chap Goh Mei (17/02/2011), Thursday.
l Parents and kids are encouraged to bring any items for donation such as cookies, books, clothes and etc. but still in good condition.

b) The Sugar Cane
l I brought in a stick of sugar cane. The kids started sharing that their mother bought sugar cane to pray. However, they have no idea what prayer is that. That sugar cane is from our school garden. There are 2 types. 1 purple and another of green colour.
Xing Tong: It’s green because it has pandan.
l Haaa….. that’s such a cute answer.
l Today is the 8th day and tomorrow is Jade Emperor’s birthday. The Chinese people especially Hokkiens will offer a lot of luxurious food and sugar cane for Jade Emperor at midnight. Past midnight is the 9th. day which is his birthday. Everyone wishes the best to him and hope he can continue blessing people of the Earth.
Teacher: Why do the offer sugar cane and not other fruit like apple or dragon fruit?
Class: Because it’s delicious. Jade Emperor likes sugar cane….. :)
l I asked them to find out the answer. Then, we watched a video clip on Jade Emperor’s birthday celebration. There were a lot of fire crackers and fire works, abundance of food, some even had dragon dance and lion dance, the burning of gold paper and incense.
l We also watched a powerpoint on “orphanage”. The public shared food with them, played games such as hiring a clown, brought them to the playground, played balloons and etc.

c) Tasting the sugar cane.
* I skinned the sugar cane and chopped it into small pieces. The kids chewed the pieces for the juice and spit the fibre to throw. A few kids didn’t want to try at first but after persuasion, they asked for more. J Sugar cane is healthy for us and it is used to make into sugar.

d) Corner Playing.
* The kids asked to play the “trading game” and this time, they decided what to sell. They were better at counting and also questioning and answering. They offered me a haircut and I started a clinic to introduce the doctor service.