It's Chicken Day!
“Sticking” and “Plucking” the Chicken’s Feathers + Cracking Egg Shells
A common meat dish that our teachers have observed us often eat during lunch time is chicken meat. Wait… chicken meat comes from an actual “chicken” animal —- like the actual animal that has feathered wings and makes the “cluck cluck cluck” sound?
With a drawn chicken template underneath a sticky film, we stuck colorful feathers on it. A few of us were concerned with the chicken being out in the cold weather, so we did the following:
We made a “hat” by adding more feathers on its head
The chicken’s body needs to be well covered with feather to make sure that it keeps warm
After covering the chicken with feathers, a few of us thought of plucking it out. We were quite amused seeing some strands of vane from the feather left behind on the sticky film leaving it with a unique colorful design.
It was also interesting to note that upon hearing that Liezel wants to cook chicken adobo (a common Filipino dish), some of us plucked out feathers from the chicken and presented it to her. It shows that we somehow understand that chicken meat needs to come from the actual chicken animal.
The Humpty Dumpty artwork that we made several weeks ago was also brought out for us to “observe” and “investigate”. We found out that if we pressed on the egg shell too hard, it cracks into smaller pieces!
Cooking with Items from Nature
Today’s special ingredient for Community Kitchen were:
Gumballs (spiky wooden balls)
orange colored and scented potpourri
dried hydrangeas
paper maché balls
Today’s popular dish was salad and bread! Most of us agreed that the gumballs were “bread with a green filling inside” and that the potpourri resembled carrots and potatoes! A few of us were focused on plucking out the little balls from the bouquets of dried hydrangeas and sprinkling it atop our salad… like seasoning it with whole black pepper!
While some of were busy preparing dishes, a few of us wondered if we could put together again the broken pieces from the potpourri together to form acorns and pine cones! One of us even thought of spreading jam on the wooden pieces… like eating toast for breakfast!
Slicing, mixing, measuring, pouring, scooping, and collaborating on making dishes were some of the other skills that we did in this activity.
Making Cheese
Together with John & Nanako, we pretended to make our very own cheese using shredded paper, yellow vegetable dye, and water.
Here was the process of making our special cheese:
Submerge the shredded paper in a bin of water
Sprinkle in yellow vegetable dye to color
Mix it well to make sure that all “cheese” are well covered with color yellow
Place the “cheese” on top of a sheet of filter paper to let the liquid drip
Squeeze out remaining liquid as necessary
We look forward to using our freshly made “cheese” for tomorrow’s cooking activity with Liezel. Please don’t be surprised if we greet you during pick up time with yellow stained hands!
“Cock- A-Doodle-Doo” Circle Time
To prepare us for Circle Time, a medley of catchy songs was played for us to move our bodies along to the rhythm and beat. The medley included:
“BabyShark” by Mike Whitla
“Tequila” by The Champs
“Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen
“Mi Jeva” by Boogaloo Assassins
“Catch A Falling Star” by Perry Como
We were all exhilarated after that fun dance medley that we were able to quickly settle down for our morning roll call. Yet instead of the the usual “Good Morning” greeting, Erika greeted us with a hearty “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!” —-why is that? We learned that in some provinces in the Philippines (which is John, Liezel, and Erika’s home country), roosters served as the community’s alarm clock to signal that the sun is starting to rise and another beautiful day is about to begin.
So instead of saying “Good Morning, -name-“, we greeted each other, “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, -name-!”. So many ways to greet and wish each other a great day ahead! While doing the roll call, John suddenly announced that something came out from his bottom… a hard ball made out of newspaper!
We couldn’t guess what it was at first until John made several actions to help us think of an answer. He gently tapped it on the floor and cracked it open… what could it be? A few answers that came up were:
A circle
A triangle
A ball
We kept on guessing until one of gave the right answer… an EGG!
After that fun, interactive guessing game. We were read Eric Carle’s “Today is Monday” wherein we had to continue the song by singing the missing lyrics each time Erika pauses. Interesting how we all had our own perspectives on the drawings from the book… string beans were called “hapa” (“leaves” in English) and roast beef was called “ninja” (“carrot” in English).
Just like “all the hungry children” from the story, we prepared to get ready for Snack Time to eat the delicious snacks prepared by our parents.
Out to the Pond
For a change, we went out to check out the fishes in the pond. Sadly, no fishes came out for us to say “Hi!” to. Instead, we gathered dried leaves from the bushes and happily threw in to the pond. It was fun to see which ones would either sink or float! Several of us were also given dried dandelions to count and play with.
We hope all of you are having a lovely Wednesday so far.
Love,
Buds Class Children