Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 8

Today we did
1. Sang Good afternoon song
2. Shirley asked tots whether have they tried new fruits in the past few weeks? Anyone tried durian? Is it smelly? Mushy? Sweet? Bitter? Sour like lime? Anyone tried Mangosteen? What color is it? She showed picture of mangosteen. She said mangosteen has segments, it's purple color on the outside and white on the inside. Anyone tried dragon fruit? What color is it? There are 2 types - one is dark pink in color, another is white in color. It has many seeds. Do you remove the seeds before you eat it? No. You eat the seeds as well. The seeds cannot be digested, where do they go? They pass out in your poo but some are digested.
How to tell if something is a fruit? Is caterpillar fruit? No. Fruit grows on tree or plant. And it has seed(s). Is tree truck fruit? It grows on tree. No. It has no seed. Is car a fruit? No. Why not? Good to train a child to question why not? That shows that the child understand reason for something.

Are all fruits edible? kids eat fruits that we offer them. They do not know there are fruits that are inedible. Pong Pong fruit is inedible. It is poisonous. If you eat it, you will feel very sick and may die. It is green in color and looks like lime. It's tree is commonly found along expressway

3. Tots were given 2 mini booklet and picture of susage, apple, orange and plum to classify whether each picture is fruit or not fruit in the 2 mini booklet





4. Shirley asked tots have you ever make a wish? Do you make a wish during Christmas? Little mouse wishes that is has long neck, it hope it has long neck. It stretches it's neck hoping that it's neck will be long. Would it be sad if it's neck is not long? Would you be sad if mummy doesn't allow you to swim because you have running nose? You will be angry, sad, disappointed and throw tantrum. Shirley said it's good to teach kids words on feelings. This makes tantrum management easier as kids don't know there are such words to describe their feelings


5. Shirley showed a picture of mice on a book. She asked what is the color of the mouse? Where is the nose, eye, ear? What is on the face? Is it's tail long? There are claws on the feet for mouse to grib on tree truck when climbing up the tree. Is the fur long or short? Which mouse do you like? Is the body warm? What other animal has whiskers? Cat What is the whiskers for? It allows mouse to feel the surrounding especially when it comes out at night. What other animal in the story "Little mouse wants an apple" have whiskers? Sea lion. Sea lion uses it's whiskers to feel when it swims in the water

6. A picture of a mouse and words of it's body parts were distributed to tots to paste the words and draw a line to the body part in the picture
7. Sang Good bye song