Gardening

Tuesday (27/09/2011)

a) The Various Plants.
• Tzen Yu and I brought in some vegetables for the kids to observe. Potatoes with little yellowish and green eyes are ready to be planted. Similarly to gingers. Tzen Yu said that potatoes with those eyes are not safe to be eaten because it is poisonous. Cooks will have to cut discard that part away. We also observed onions. The kids passed around and smelt and compared.

b) Gardening.
 Before planting in the garden, we learnt the different tools namely; spade, rake, watering can, flower pots and soil.
 We sang a song that goes along to the tune “The Farmer In The Dell”. The kids helped me to form the lyrics. “The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, heigh-ho-the-diery-oh, the farmer in the dell.”
“ The farmer digs the soil……..The farmer plants the seeds,…….The farmer waters the seeds, ………The sun shines the seeds”.
 We took turns to plant those vegetables. We planted onions, potatoes, ginger and we transferred some bean sprouts which have already started growing tall. The kids agreed to water those plants every morning.

c) Observing the flowers.
 The flower stems have absorbed the coloured water. Those white chrysanthemums have started changing colour to red, blue and also purple. They looked pretty especially the blue flowers.

d) Video Clip
 We watched how mushrooms grew. We watched the video clip of the song we learnt yesterday; “The Plant Song”.
 We watched an interesting story of Walt Disneys; “The Wise Little Hen”. The hen had some corn seeds and asked Peter Pig and Donald Duck to help at planting but they resisted, pretending to have a sudden stomachache. So, she planted them herself with cchicks’ help. Next, she needed someone to harvest. Again Peter Pig and Donald Duck rejected. So, she harvested herself. She then cooked lots of delicious food and invited them to eat, Peter Pig and Donald Duck immediately agreed. However, they were presented with a bottle of medicine. Both realized that they had misbehaved.