Hi, everyone! ✨💕✨
Welcome to the first day of our Cacao Camp – where we’re learning all about chocolate and how it comes from the trees all the way to the chocolate bars in our shops! We want to explore how it is made, where it comes from and how it became one of everyone’s favourite treats!🍫🌱🍫🌱
For our lesson today, the focus was ‘Where does chocolate come from?’🍫🍫🍫
We spent some time learning that chocolate comes from a tree – a cocoa tree, that grows cocoa pods. Inside the cocoa pods, there are plenty of cocoa beans and from those beans we are able to make chocolate! We did some of the vocabulary together and also played a quick-fire number game to reveal each of our special vocab words! 🌷🌷🌷
After, we got to hold and smell some of the cocoa beans. Unlike chocolate, they are hard and they don’t smell very much like our favourite treat. With the sensory experience, we introduced our magic bag and had a hunt for some cocoa beans. We separated them into piles – cocoa beans and not cocoa beans. The boys and girls were so good using their hands and feeling for the shape and the texture of the beans!🌱🌱🌱
That is all for today, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for the start of our cocoa journey! 🍫🍫🍫
Great work! I’ll see everyone tomorrow!
亲爱的家长朋友们，下午好！
今天是我们奇妙探索之旅的第一天，孩子们满怀好奇与热情，开启了关于“可可果”的精彩一天。
上午，我们在开营仪式上正式“起航”。孩子们跟随“船长”的航海路线，一路“驶”向南美洲——那是可可树的故乡。活动中，大家不仅认识了可可果和可可豆的外形，还了解了可可豆是如何一步步变身成美味巧克力的。通过参与可可果拼图、亲手研磨可可豆，孩子们在动眼、动手、动脑的过程中，真切感受了“可可果的奇迹旅行”。
下午的时光同样充实而有趣。我们共读了绘本《神奇的可可树》，从中认识了可可树的形态特征，也知道了它喜欢生长在温暖湿润的热带雨林里。孩子们惊讶地发现，原来可可果不是长在枝头，而是直接长在树干上的！我们还进一步了解到，可可树的健康成长，离不开叶子的遮挡、根系周围的各种菌群，以及那些勤劳的小昆虫朋友们。为了让知识“活”起来，孩子们化身为一棵棵小小的可可树，用身体动作模仿了从种子到大树的生长过程，也体验了可可豆变成巧克力时那充满节奏感的“变身舞蹈”。
在手工环节，我们制作了主题创意作品“可可树”。孩子们认真剪、仔细贴，在锻炼手部精细动作的同时，也把对可可树特点的理解融入到作品中。每一棵“可可树”都独一无二，充满了童真与想象。
今天是充满香气与欢笑的一天，孩子们在玩中学、在做中悟。感谢各位家长的信任与陪伴，也期待明天和大家继续分享更多成长瞬间！
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