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.

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.

Today we have a group of children from the same school joining Eat Craft - making cup cakes together, and had a lovely afternoon tea after the class.

This beautiful arrangement is credited to the mothers among the group, they have been sharing ideas and interesting activities for their children. Attending activities together, is one of their favorite moment.

The children have lots of fun. First of all, making food is always fun. Baking has the magical power that let everybody both adults and children to enjoy doing it. In Malaysia, baking isn't that common in most of the household especially letting kiddos to do by their own. Honestly, that's a lot of preparation and cleaning to be done. But if you were there to witness how happy they are, you would definitely think that's something worth to do.

I am happy to look at these children, because they have so many things to talk about. They talk about their interests, hobbies, siblings and activities. Even though some of them came for the first time, they open their heart and enjoy the class very soon after we start the activity. This is another reason we enjoy teaching Eat Craft so much. Food brings everybody together.



 

Children who made meringue for the first time, they claim it looked exactly like ice cream which is not melting at all.

Quick learner he is. First baking class, he just learnt how to fold batter with meringue by watching.

Baking is a perfect lesson to teach about patient and waiting. Because nothing can be ate without waiting.