亲爱的家长朋友们，下午好！
在今天的“可可探索之旅”中，我们带着孩子围绕可可豆展开了一场融合自然、地理与感官体验的趣味学习。
🌱 一、感知植物生命周期，了解可可的生长奥秘
孩子们通过图片和故事，了解了可可果从开花、结果到成熟采摘的完整生长过程，初步感知了“植物生命周期”的概念。他们知道了可可树是个“怕冷的小精灵”，最喜欢生活在温暖湿润的热带地区。课堂上，我们鼓励孩子尝试记住1-2个可可产地国家的名称，不少小朋友已经能说出“委内瑞拉”“厄瓜多尔”等名字啦！
🌍 二、认识“赤道”，建立初步地理认知
我们用了一个形象的比喻帮助孩子理解抽象概念：“地球像一颗圆圆的皮球，赤道就像系在皮球最胖处的一条彩色腰带。” 孩子们不仅认识了赤道的位置，还了解到赤道周围一年四季都暖暖的、热热的，正是这样独特的气候才让可可树得以茁壮成长。随后，每位孩子都尝试在简化版世界地图上用彩笔标识出赤道，动手动脑，兴趣盎然。
🔍 三、多感官探索，认识可可果的形态结构
延续上节课的实物观察，今天我们再次切开可可果，让孩子们通过看（外观颜色与形状）、闻（特有气味）、切（内部结构） 等多种方式，近距离认识可可果的外壳、果肉和包裹在其中的可可豆。特别说明：我们只进行观察和闻嗅，未安排品尝环节，确保安全卫生。
Hi, everyone! Today was a fantastic second day of our Summer Cacao Camp!🍫✨🍫✨
We spent circle time playing some question games and getting the student’s minds moving, as well as dancing and singing to one of our favourite songs! We covered the days of the week, the seasons, months of the year etc just to get everyone speaking this morning! We also had a wonderful music class with Teacher Happy where everyone had a cute umbrella and danced in the rain.🌷🌷☔☔
For our next lesson, we continued learning about where chocolate comes from – this lesson was titled ‘Big Tree, Funny Fruit’ as we learned all about cacao pods and how they grow on the cacao tree in the jungle. They require very hot weather to grow. We role played as little beans, pods and grew all the way up into big cacao trees! Then, we had a hunt through the classroom for our cacao pods to put onto our big tree. It was full of fun and laughter! We explored the jungle sounds, listening for thundering rain and the sounds of monkeys and birds.🍫🍫🌱🌱
Great job, everyone!✨
Have a wonderful evening and I’ll see you all tomorrow!✨💕
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