The Vegetable Dishes.

Thursday (22/09/2011)

a) The first leaf.
 Hooray….! Our bean sprouts have gown leaves. The stems are also longer. Most of them have already grown leaves except a few.
 Then, we went to look at our wheatgrass seeds which were left to germinate in a storeroom. Hmm..so far, not much difference. Let’s hope, they grow more the next few days. The kids also were excited to look into the store room……of course it isn’t comfortable as the classroom.

b) The School Garden.
 We explored the garden to recognize the different plants. Currently, we only have Kangkung vegetables, Pomegranate tree, Pandan leaves, Sugracane Tree, Aloe Vera and Jack Fruit Tree. The others are flower plants.

c) The Vegetable Dishes.
 I bought a few vegetarian dishes to share with the kids. We had lettuce, lady fingers, spinach, bitter gourd and pumpkin. A few of them resisted at eating pumpkin but after persuasion, they ate and loved it and ate more. Only Shawn doesn’t like bitter gourd.

d) Discussion: Concert.
 I asked the kids’ opinion about our year-end concert performance. They said they wanted a story about farmer planting. He waited and waited for the plant to grow but it was a long time. Some wanted to add on animals in the story. Some wanted various vegetables. Some wanted a bad guy chopping the trees and fairies came to help. Well, I asked hem to think of the storyline before finalizing our decision.

e) Video Clip.
 Charlie and Lola “What Plant Is It?” It taught the kids proper ways to plant seeds. They shared on how seeds being pollinated. Some by wind, some by bees and some planted by people.
 “Sid The Seed” is a story about a seed who is afraid to grow out of its hole until its friends leave it behind. Bothe spider and butterfly left him as the y grow to see the world outside. The Seed was lonely and also decided to see the world. It drank lots of water and started growing out of the hole to gain sunlight. It grew so big that many animals came to stay on it. Its friends came by to reunite.