Money value.

Monday (03/10/2011)

a) The Pomegranate.
 The carrots’ leaves in experiment have grown taller. Our Bean sprouts planted in the garden have grown taller. The onions’ shoot has also grown. Potatoes haven’t shown any signs.
 I brought in a Pomegranate fruit and the kids were anxious about it. It was plucked from our school tree. The fruit skin is already almost all yellow but it was difficult to break it open. So, I had to cut it by knife. It has got lots of small seeds. The kids wished to bring them home to plant. Shawn said if the fruit is riper, then it would be sweeter. Gee….the kids love sour fruit! 

b) Scrambled words!
 At first, we spelt “BROCCOLI” together. Then, I gave each kid a letter. The first group stated playing. A smurf farmer and McQueen chased the letters and they were scrambled up! Then, the smurf said, “Stop!” The letters tried arranging themselves but unsuccessful. It was about 2 times and the third time, Smurf called out the letters and eventually the spelling was correct! Hooray!

c) Money value.
 As we would be selling food next week, so we learnt about money value. I showed the kids notes of RM1, RM5, RM10 and RM50. Shawn showed me old note sof RM1 and RM2. We compared the features and colours. Features include KL Tower, JLCC Twin Towers, an aeroplane representing KLIA, a cargo ship representing Malaysia’s international trading and etc. Kids said the notes will be torn if cut by scissors. True enough but money is so important especially for the poor ones. Thus, we should appreciate money. We should our parents for working hard to give us money and love for us.
 Each kid was given 10 pieces of cardboard. They wrote values on them and coloured them accordingly. Blue for RM1 note, green for RM5 note and red for RM10 note.