Senses - Taste

This week's theme that I'm teaching my kids is my 5 senses.

Today I taught them about their sense of taste.

1. sour

2. salty

3. bitter

4. sweet

It was so fun to watch their expressions!

The 1st round I let them taste lime, salt, unsweetened cocoa, and brown sugar.

The 2nd round I let them taste the sour gummibears, m&ms, and twisties cheese flavoured chips. They loved it and I loved it...it was a good day hahahaha.

Teachery Stuff =)

FYI =) I bought a hot pink cover for my macbook...

I'm kinda sorta getting the hang of teaching my 3-4 year olds. After saying I NEVER want to be a kindergarten teacher I just might be Ok with being one. It's not easy but when you TRY to think positive then some things can be seen as fun.

I've been doing some research and coming up with ways to make learning fun and interesting for the kids. Teaching kids ABC and 123 is not that simple! There are a million ways to

teach it.

Our them this week is 'My BodY' I made home made playdough and will let the kids roll out eyes, ear, nose, moht etc onto these blank faces.

Body parts!

Alphabet puzzles, match upper case letter with upper case letter, match upper case letter with lower case letter, etc!

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting On Biscuits

Every term teachers are supposed to do some cooking activity with the kids and this is what I did with the kids. I purposely did it during the last period so I wouldn't have to suffer their sugar high!!

The kids loved it!

Handerfly...I mean butterfly.

The night 35 kids showed up we got traumatized because it was so hard to give out instructions and materials. So Jeremy (Nat's bro), Auntie Arlene (Doca's Mom-in-law) and I sat together to discuss how we could make our next arts and craft easier for the kids and for us. They gave brilliant ideas and we all contributed our thoughts and finally... Jeremy told me to take pictures of the activity step by step for the kids to see and follow...and now you can see and follow too!

Step 1: Trace around your hands on a piece of paper.

Step 2: Trace around your hands at the bottom but with your fingers side by side.

Step 3: Decorate!

Step 4: Add the body and head to the middle part.

Step 5: Add the anttenaes or the pipe cleaners.

Step 6: Add the googlie eyes and the mouth...

Then you have a butterfly just by tracing around your hands and adding some other stuff! hihihihihi.

Oh and this last picture has nothing to do with the arts and craft. Just wanted to show off the first tom yum soup I have cooked in my life. I also made an Indonesian spicy chicken dish but I was too excited about it I ate it all up before I even thought about taking the picture...heh.