Halloween Day at Daycare-Treat or TrIck 萬聖節

今天是萬聖節，Mommy自願當義工到Angela的班上示範南瓜雕刻，也讓Mommy有機會可以看到Angela上課的情況。這一天，學校准許小朋友不用穿著制服上學，小朋友可以自由裝扮自己喜歡的造型，穿上各式各樣的衣服到學校。
Angela的造型是小瓢蟲，與班上其他小朋友選擇Disney卡通人物或是電影主角的扮相，格外不同。 學校在萬聖節的上午，安排同學在校區內遊行。每個同學手裡拿著勞作課所作的紙袋，準備遊行沿途要糖果。
小朋友排好隊後，就跟著老師出發。Angela個頭最小排第一個。
不過，遊行中小朋友看到發糖果的地方就圍成一團，也顧不得先後了。













瞧！Angela雖對吃糖果興趣也不大，不過看到同學們都爭先朝向發糖果的義工家長，年紀個頭就算小，她也照樣像其他同學一樣的奮勇向前去拿糖果，讓Mommy看了覺得很有趣。不知道Angela以後長大了還會不會記得在daycare的萬聖節活動。






這一大袋裝的正是Angela今天在學校萬聖節活動的成果，各式各樣的巧克力與糖果。

Pumpkin Carving 南瓜雕刻

As Halloween approached, Angela learned about pumpkin carving and Helloween dressup in class. Angela has been looking forward to working with Mommy on pumpkin carving.

To let Angela experience how to carve a pumpkin, the family got two big pumpkins and carving kits home the other day.
Few steps for carving a pumpkin-clean the surface of the pumpkin, cut opening pumpkin, scoop out the seeds and scrape pulp from carving area, draw a pattern for the face, and follow the pattern and saw and cut.





After Angela pushed the cut-out feature gently from inside of the pumpkin, her carving work was done. Finally, nice work!









By the way, here are the byproducts after pumpkin carving -- pumpkin seeds and pulp, which can be roasted and cooked, see recipes for roast pumpkin seeds and pumpkin rice.

First-week report from daycare school 托兒所的報告

Angela started her daycare center at Montessori School of Downtown last Monday. Daddy drove her to school in the morning and Mommy picked up her in the afternoon. Angela has been excited about attending the class and making friends. Mommy and Daddy are happy to see Angela's high willingness to go to daycare center and hope that little Angela will have a lot of fun to play and learn.
While the teachers were pleased with Angela's self-adjustment in the past week, there still are things we need to work on. E.g. Angela needs to improve her table manner and stop running around or standing while eating meals. She also has to control her tantrums and reduces the frequency of wetting her pants, etc. The teachers introduce class rules and hopefully, in the following weeks, Angela will get used to the class instructions, be willing to obey the rules and still keep high spirit going to class.