Puppet Show

It was the day after the Chocolate factory visit, kids are still in a holiday mood especially some SK children who are still having another one week official holiday and Aunty Val brought puppets from the fairy tale " The Emperor's New Clothes". I managed to take some video clippings of the puppet show which the children - SK children and a few 5/6 year olds managed to put up with just about 2 hours of practice! Hooray for Aunty Val.

Enjoy the video. If you want to see the rest, let me have your thumb drive.

Another party

Danish Hakeemi had a party today to celebrate his 4th birthday and guess what, big sister Areefa wants to cut a cake as well thus making a joint celebration and the cake was wonderfully done by the baker who delivered it personally, Puan Zahida from Ninerecipes (check out Cakes Galore).

Speaking of parties, would appreciate if parents can consider 'healthy' stuff for the party packs as I do get requests to have items removed, which sometimes we cannot manage without 'offending' the wrapping.

Education

Hi Parents

I heard on radio on about a website that can help parents find out more about Pre-school, Primary School, Secondary School as well as tertiary institutions. Many first time mummies may need help in the area of education for their children. Do go to http://www.ekl.gov.my and go to mygovernment - what attracted me about the advertisement is that you can actually register your child for school through this site ie. for Klang Valley areas. You can also find out the curriculum for pre-school and primary school.

An article in The Sunday Star of 8th June 2008 "Can't learn this ... " on page 8 of FIT4LIFE Section (SF7) gives an insight into several areas of learning disabilities. Though each child's learning ability differs, knowing our child's capability and incapability helps us provide early intervention thus helping our child in their life long journey of learning.

Also for new mums I found an interesting website : http://freshbots.com - environmental friendly, washable diapers - it's all about the environment.

Emilie said to me on the eve of the petrol price increase "what will be the price of petrol by the time I can have a car?" She is 16 this year .... so let's try to help conserve mother nature's resources, plant more trees and reduce pollution, so our future generation will still have something to appreciate and enjoy.

Huda

Factory Visit

The day has finally arrived, 4th June 2008, a promised made has to be fulfilled. The children have been on their best behaviour and came to school early as expected. Beryl's Chocolate factory is located at the Seri Kembangan Industrial Estate, Serdang.

Getting there you can use the LDP towards UPM, go straight all the way till you see the factory building on the right.

We arrived exactly at 9am in a school bus and the school's van. The first view is the drum, we had no idea what it is, till later.

The programme began with a video presentation to show how chocolate is processesed. Beryl's chocolate uses cocoa imported from Ghana, other ingredients are locally obtained. Ingredients used are cocoa butter, palm oil, sugar and milk powder. A conching machine is used to mix all the ingredients together. The drum is used to make chocolate balls with assorted nuts or raisins in it.

We get to sample some chocolates before shopping for it. The variety is really wide though some are not on the supermarket shelves.

For example this one ..... got to try to experience a chocolate

with chilly flavour.

Now, what is this cow doing here? This is a display item on the grounds of the factory.

And when the shopping is all done, it's time to go home.

These are some other candid shots of the children.

Till the next trip.