Term 3 Week 6 Day 2

Kindergarten

 Bible reading: Ruth and Naomi - Ruth 1-4

1. Creative Arts: Art Surprise
☑ Make a Father's Day gift: cut out owl shapes from Waratah's paintings

2. Science & Technology: Craft
Topic: Looking around you - At the Beach
☑ Investigate silly putty
☑ Make a glue fossil of a shell [Link]
☑ Investigate an egg

3. English: Reading Eggs
☑ Map 5 Lesson 42
☑ Extension Activity: handwriting practice


4. Language: Craft
☑ Make Shanghai Moon Cakes

Recipe

Dough
300g plain flour
40g custard powder
1 tsp baking powder
20g icing sugar
1 egg lightly beaten
175g butter / margarine
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla

Filling
100g mixed nuts / dried fruit chopped small
20g caster sugar
1 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp dessicated coconut
2 Tbsp peanut butter
2 Tbsp boiling water
1 Tbsp cornflour

Topping
Sunflower seed kernels or toasted melon seeds

Egg glaze
1 egg yolk
1 tsp water
1 inch salt

Method - filling
Mix all dry ingredients except cornflour.
Blend cornflour, peanut butter and honey into boiling water.
Mix wet ingredients into dry. Let rest for an hour in the fridge.

Method - dough
Sift flour, baking powder, custard and salt.
Sift icing sugar and mix in.
Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Make a well and mix in egg.
Combine into a dough (but do not knead).
Shape into a log, wrap in clingwrap, and rest in fridge for 30 mins.

Method - shaping cakes
Unwrap dough. Cut log into slices (around 11 - 12).
Make into cup shape (try to get sides as thin as possible). Put tspn full of filling mixture in centre and close ball around it. (May be easier using cling wrap to help shape dough into a ball).
Decorate top with seeds.

Method - baking
Bake at 180C for 10 minutes.
Take out and cool for 5 minutes.
Paint with egg glaze.
Return to oven for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.

5. Mathematics: Maths games
☑ Measuring ingredients for moon cakes
☑ Using timers - analogue and digital
☑ Fair or not fair? Counting money game [Link]

6. Human Society & Environment: Mystery Activity
Topic: Families Past and Present - A trip to the beach (telling a story).
☑ Build a beach / ocean playscape


Preschool

☑ Name soup [Link]


Infant Activities

☑ June Oberlander, Fun Start (2007) 'Week 10: Large Muscle Activities"