01-09-2012 森林妈妈故事坊(1) ~ 亲情主题绘本分享之第二场（妈妈买绿豆，逃家小兔，妈妈的礼物）

This is a backdated posting, since I've been very busy with work & life.
(I should be typing this in Chinese, however I discovered that the blogs which I try to type with NJ Star in Word when pasted in here, all the settings were in a mess, and cannot be re-arrrange at all. I just gave up  - Sigh!)

Jungle Mama a very good activity which parents can join together with their kids for all sort of activities. This is organized by a few mothers which initially they want their kids to socialize with others as well and at the same time to educate their kids & exposed them to mother nature. 

I've been trying to "register" in their activity a few times.
Most of the time, when I saw the posting in their FB, the "registration" session was full, and there was a long queue for the waiting list as well.

We were very lucky to register in one of their activity. We were late that day, as I need to drive from Puchong all the way to FRIM. We were told by the organizer that there will be a shooting program on that day by TV2 crew and the activity will be broadcasting on air by end of September.

Twins were very excited when I told them earlier that we'll be going for an outdoor activity in jungle. Yeah - jungle. Twins never been to jungle before. They were very excited when they reached there. To them the small water fall, a hanging bridge & forest is very new, as they never seen before. 

Warming Up Session  
Early morning, the teachers started with some basic exercises for warming up session. 
Teacher was singing : 什么飞啊?什么飞?
Students replying :  飞机飞啊， 飞机飞。 蝴蝶飞啊， 蝴蝶飞。 
                              小鸟飞啊，小鸟飞。直升机飞啊，直升机飞。
                              老鹰飞啊，老鹰飞。
Following with some "flying" actions. 
(Twins were not really involving themselves in it initially as they never exposed to this before. But, later when I asked them they love the exercise.)



Story Telling Session
The first story was "煮绿豆汤"- cooking green bean soup. 
This was very fun & interesting. 
I love the way the teacher involving all the kids by separating them into few groups, where the younger toddlers (3yrs old) send for washing the green bean. The 4yrs old group were send for picking up the small branches to setup fire. 
All the bigger kids were then send for doing the "火种".
Later,  all the students were gathered together again, where teacher set up for the pot.

See how exciting the kids using the fan to "煽火". EQ was squatting with Pink Dress ^_^

While we waited the green bean soup to be boil, the teachers began with the next story telling session : 逃家小兔.

 

Very nice and attractive story telling with dolls & moving scene.
Bravo to all the teachers.
The moral of the story is : No matter where you went, you'll still be your mom's child, and she'll be with you no matter what happened to you ^_^
We then did a small experiment too : Momentum theory hehe, with the moving balloon.

The last session was doing craft with the small branches picked up from the forest.
I didn't snap any photos for this, as twins began sweating & cranky.

Overall, we all enjoyed a lot the whole session, and looking forward to take part in the next activity in near future.

We met Siew Lan- twins' mother too.
Siew Lan with her kids. She didn't bring her twins that day for the activity.