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Join UsNews / Nunn Road / 2015 / September 2015
We are glad that some parents made the effort to attend our Teachers and Parents’ night. We thank you for your active participation and support during the session. I hope you went home that night enriched with a deeper understanding of your child. Taking care of a child’s emotional needs is never an easy task. However, as long as you remember to see things through your child’s eyes and meet their needs with some creative efforts, viola! you are the best mum or dad ever.
Thank you also for your trust in us. At Nania we always have the best interests of your child in our hearts. Next year, I plan to have this meeting on a Saturday morning so that more parents can join us for this sharing session.
We have just celebrated the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon-cake festival with the children. After coming back from the August term break, the children have been very cooperative and happy to constantly pluck the ‘blue flowers’ in the garden to give to Auntie Janet to wash and keep. The flowers were processed into blue food dye while the green colour food dye was obtained from pandan leaves.
In the classroom, during one of the morning artistic activities, the children made and coloured their own lanterns to bring home. The big children in the class used their nimble fingers to twist yarn strings to use as handles for the lanterns.
The children started the day by gathering in the dining area to make moon-cakes. First, they rolled lotus paste into 2 round balls. Then they flattened the outside skin layer with their hand and then placed the paste in its middle. Then the skin was wrapped round the paste and the mixture is rolled into a ball again. Lastly they placed the rounded mixture into a moon-cake mould and pressed it. We then keep the moon-cakes in the fridge and they have turn out beautifully by afternoon.
In the afternoon with help from the children, we packed the moon-cakes for them to bring home. The fresh and delicious smell wafting from the moon-cakes lingered in the classroom long after we had finished packing.
Seeing that the children also preferred to eat our own homemade moon-cakes rather than the store-bought ones, we decided to serve them only the moon-cakes dyed with the blue-flower and pandan food dyes which the teachers made a day before the celebration.
We had our celebration during the morning snack time. We teachers enacted a simple play by acting out the meaning behind this celebration i.e. the roundness of the moon that implies the unity of a family when everyone gathers together happily to eat the delicious moon-cakes and drink tea.
We ended the play with the moon-cake festival’s song and enjoying the snack with the children.
Moving along, the children are practising songs and poems for the coming Harvest Festival during the morning ring time. The big children in the class lead the younger ones during practices.
In Nania, we celebrate Harvest Festival to thank Mother Nature for sun, rain and wind. Through the poems and songs, the children express their gratefulness for the food on their plates and to the farmers who work hard to grow the crops as well as to their parents who lovingly prepare food for them.
We embodied the spirit of Harvest festival by sowing some ‘French-bean’ seeds in the vegetable patches at the corner of the garden together with the children. The planting might not be as successful as we would have wished maybe due to the current weather condition, but the simple joy on the faces of the children when they sowed the seeds was a true experience for all of us. Now there are little plants sprouting from the seeds.
We enclosed herewith the Harvest Festival programme and songs for your attention. Please be on time and we look forward to sharing a wonderful celebration with you and your family.
After the Harvest festival, the children in the English class will be preparing for the graduation ceremony of the 5 six years-olds. The 5 children have for the past few days begun making their ‘star crown’ as well as decorating their musical instruments with colourful crepe streamers.
Teacher Nora
