Hi5 Children Playgroup - Baking Activtities

Enjoy a free class when you enroll for the full courses in April.

Register with us now, to let your children participate in this interesting activities.
We bake a different recipe every weeks that make children excite about coming to learn new things.

【3月学校假日营 - 我快乐 . 我成长】

这是一次集合了大家最爱的活动的假期营。

每堂我们在烘培课的时候，孩子们就问什么时候可以做史莱姆实验。
而当我们在做史莱姆的时候，孩子们又问今天不做点什么吃的带回家给爸爸妈妈吗？
玩着老师们准备的玩具时，又问：“老师，如果我们有自己做的玩具玩，那该有多好”。

这个假期，有充裕的时间，让我们一次完成期待已久的活动。

3月的学校假期，爸爸妈妈们位孩子准备了什么活动呢？

通过多元活动，引导孩子自我挑战、突破极限，学习与队友共同迈向成长。激发孩子们的自信心，同时在认识新朋友的过程日建立团体生活的社交能力。

孩子们是否不时会说，妈妈我不会、我做不来、可以帮帮我吗？明明有能力完成的事，就是少了那份自信和尝试的勇气。

这次的学校假期营，就好像是孩子们勇气的加油站。为他们下半年的学习做更好的心理准备。

💵理财游戏学算数，零压力，好好玩

👨🏻‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾做生意，当小老板，设计菜单学单词

👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬制作史莱姆，是科学实验，小科学家会计算单位

🐣🐰复活节，找彩蛋，体验多一种节日

活动详情：-
日期：2018年3月19日、20日及21日
时间：10am - 4pm
适合年龄：6岁以上
收费：RM250

*首五位付费报名的学生，附送一堂于23/3 的 Easter Egg Hunting Workshop

**需要提早或延长活动时间的家长，可与我们联络做托育的安排。

June - A month full of fun and joy

When I was putting all my class photo in folder, I see so many happy faces. So I decide to write this post to remember June of 2017, and also as our teaching diary. 

Frankly speaking, being a teacher is tough, nevertheless running a children center as our passion. This happy faces are our biggest motivation to keep us work hard with my creative ideas and class. 

The middle of the year is always full of holiday, together school holiday and public holiday. Some family go abroad and have family bonding time. We had lot of fun together, as teachers and students at Hi5 Children Playgroup. 

What keep us motivated? 

• The smiley faces before they go home. 
• Friendships made in Hi5
• The shine and bright memory created together with us
• Progress they made from time to time 

When they meet their best friends here, the happy moment is beyond word can describe

Before one of them going back to their home town, we teach them how to record the happy moment they had together.

Being proud of himself, complete a cupcake by himself

Birthday girl, who had been with us in the past year. Celebrating her big day.

Look at the cheerful smile, with her achievement.

Not only the children, we try to let parents be involved with us in different kind of activities.

Enjoy every moment, doing activities with friends and teachers.

About "the little boss"

The little boss program has been a dream comes true for Hi5 Children Playgroup. It is also one of the top favorite program that the children want to participate.

It is not that common in our country that parents let children involve in non-academic activities. Therefore it creates some obstacles when we are organizing "Where do find the participant?". 

Second, the venue. The fact is that not all the business places are children friendly, and willing to compromise their business for this activity. 

The cost, teaching the children how to work can be at least three times harder to do it by adults. Most of the parents will agree with this statement. It incurs more jobs than usual, especially the cleaning and standby extra man power to make sure their safety. 

Despite all these difficulties, we managed to organize a few rounds of the event. We can call them successful by looking at the happy faces at the end of the day, and how they keep on talking about their working day. 

The reason we try so hard to make it happen is that children at the young age, especially age of 6 and above. They really need recognition by adult, and they are exploring the real world. If you pay attention during their play time, you will notice children at this age like to host role playing games very much, either is shopkeeper and customer or doctor and patient. Being able to experience working in a actual workplace means a lot for them. 

For those parents, who participated before. We would like to thank you for your participation. That really means a lot for us. After all, that's the very first time we organize this kind of event outside center. 

We are looking forward for more fun and exciting activities with your participation. 

See you this week! The little bosses.   

We let children enter the real working area, and work for real.

They would also need to encounter the challenge for real as well, by handling the questions from parents or other customers.

Why we teach cooking? It's a important life skill

As a children playgroup center, we have been teaching children how to cook with minimal help from adult. We try to let them do as much as they can independently. 

Teaching them how to bake and cook is different from teaching them how to finsih homework, it doesn't apply on exam and there's no result to show on an exam paper. So why we put so much of effort teaching it? Not only because the children love it and enjoying doing things in the kitchen. 

It's a important life skill. We all grow up for a purpose that we learn how to take care of ourself and others. Children need this achievement even at their young age. This would help to let them feel identified and confident. Children culinary ain't only about playing and making nice food, it's also an important part for them during the growing stage. 

After few months of learning, we see the progress of the children, they are confident to share with others how to make the food. Most importantly, they are more than happy to share their food happily.

Life skill isn't only about make a living, also to care about others in our life. 

Sensory activity - Yes, we let the children play with flour

Design pattern on floured surface

At the end of baking class, because we used ingredients wisely so we have excessive flour

Some of the parents share with me they run out of ideas what to play or to do with their children? This sound like a common question some of the parents have.

In Hi5, we welcome parents to stay for the baking class if they would like to learn too. We share the recipe with parents too, in case they would like to bake at home. We are happy to learn that some of the families start baking together at home.

At the end of the class, there are materials left over. We will let the children play with that. Children love sensory activity, it is also a good way to let them release some creativity energy. 

We bake English Muffin this week, children kept distracted by the excessive flour in the bowl. They couldn't stop to play, I know exactly how they feel because flour has such a special texture than anything they have been touching daily. We suggest the children to use their ingredients wisely, so they will have more flour to play after we complete. From that point onward, they handle every steps carefully.

While we were waiting the parents to come, we had so much fun by playing with the flour.

Do you know that?Research shows that sensory play builds nerve connections in the brain's pathways, which lead to the child's ability to complete more complex learning tasks. Sensory play supports language development, cognitive growth, fine and gross motor skills, problem solving skills, and social interaction.