Cooking class at Noah's club

Cooking class always be one of our children's favorite time at Noah's club, even with our Toddlers' group.  They love the opportunity to create their own snack. It’s never too early to bring kids into the kitchen, and for all the points you raised. The sensory experiences are so rich. We love how much our children can learn in the kitchen too, such as mixing, cutting, stiring, whisking, scooping and pouring and chopping and rolling.... It’s all wonderful and builds a familiarity with the kitchen from the beginning.

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY - NOVEMBER 20th

Vietnamese Teacher’s Day (November 20) has long been a special day for people to express the tradition of “Respecting the teacher and treasuring the morality”, honour the teachers who teach the students knowledge and proper behaviour ...

The forthcoming Vietnamese Teacher’s Day is an occasion for students to show their affection to those who always impart knowledge and educate them with all their heart. This day has become an annual festive day of teachers across the country. Vietnamese Teacher’s Day is not only the day for students who are studying in the school express their gratitude to their teachers, but also a good occasion for each people to meditate and recall unforgettable memories which thay have ever had with their beloved teachers. In many schools, activities with various programs to celebrate Vietnamese Teacher’s Day have been planned in early October. 

The tradition of “Respecting the teacher and treasuring the morality” has been originated for long time and preserved until now. November 20 is the special day for people to show their love and respect to the teachers. Therefore, when this day is coming, all people who used to be students think of their teachers with their sincere love and respect. Beautiful flowers and meaningful postcards have been prepared to offer the beloved teachers. Vietnamese Teacher’s Day is considered as an annual festive day of all Vietnamese people who have ever been students.

 

Gardening for children at Noah's club

We were delighted this month to welcome Tanya & Maggie from ‘Green House Collective Group’ and their twice weekly lessons on planting. Looking after the plants has gone down a treat with the Children who are very enthusiastic little gardeners!

In the beginning, we learned how to mix different soils together to make a nurturing soil for our plants to grow.

Sun, Water and Lots of love; that’s what our plants need!

Our ‘growing journals’ give us a chance to monitor our plants growth each week, especially since we’ve been watering them every day and want to make sure all our hard work is paying off
 

We watched a great cartoon on how to make compost and talked about which elements on the ground are dead or alive and which are good for our soil and which are bad. 

 

The last day of this class, we harvested a bunch of mustard greens!  

Moon Festival 2014 at Noah's club

Starting a new week, the children had a party with their little friends and teachers. The children dressed up in their costumes to come to school. The small party was very cosy and excited. They enjoyed the Dragon dance, the parade and so much fun playing traditional games such as Moon cake eating contest, Moon cake balancing relay, obstacle relay, pass the lantern, statue dance. Each of them went home with a big smile on their face and a lantern and a little piggy Moon cake.

We watched the rhythmic dragon hop up and down and shake his tail to the beat of the drum

 

  

         

The Children listened to the romantic but sad story about the tale of the full moon festival

 

Club News

Our club will be closed on Wednesday, 09 April 2014, as it's a national holiday - King Hung's Temple Festival.
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Legend associated with the Hung Kings

It is said that thousands of years ago, Lac Long Quan (King Dragon of the Land of Lac) had superhuman strength and liked to stay near water. He succeeded to the throne of his father, and governed the Lac-Viet tribe. De Lai, king of a northern tribe, with his daughter Au Co made a trip to visit the south.

Admiring Lac Long Quan's talent, De Lai married Au Co to Lac Long Quan. Au Co became pregnant and gave birth to a membranous sac. The sac kept getting larger and larger, and burst on the seventh day. Surprisingly, there were one hundred eggs in the sac, which hatched into one hundred beautiful babies. The children of Lac Long Quan and Au Co were the ancestors of Vietnam, and so the Vietnamese are known as "Dragon and Fairy descendants." The eldest son of Lac Long Quan and Au Co, who was with this mother, established himself at Phong Chau, now the southern part of Phu Tho Province, and made himself king. That was King Hung I whose realm was made up by 50 tribes. The 18 Hung kings then ruled the country from 2879 to 258BC.

According to historical records, the regime of the Hung Kings was an impressive, brilliant and outstanding start for establishing Viet Nam as a sovereign nation. The 18 generations of the Hung Kings saw the birth and development of a nation and are credited with forging national characteristics such as the sense of community, mutual affection, patriotism and unwillingness to yield to oppression. From this original settlement, the Hong (Red) River civilization and the pre-Dong Son cultures grew. From generations to generations, the Vietnamese people hold a festival nationwide on the 10th day of the third lunar month to commemorate the anniversary of their ancestor's death, founder of the Vietnamese nation - the first Hung King.

Hung King Anniversary 

The Hung King Temple Festival is annually held from 8^th to the 11^th days of the third lunar month. The main festival day is on the 10^th day of the third lunar March, on which the National Assembly has approved Vietnamese working people to annually have one more national holiday to mark the anniversary of the Hung King’s death. Every year, on this traditional occasion, Vietnamese people worldwide join their brothers and sisters in spirit to observe Vietnam National Day in commemoration of their ancestors. The main ceremony takes place at the Hung Temple on Nghia Linh Mountain in Phong Chau District, Phu Tho Province, some 85km northwest of Hanoi. The Hung King Temple Festival is one of the most important and sacred festivals of the Vietnamese people, deeply imbedded in the minds of every Vietnamese citizen, regardless of where they originated from.

Let’s contemplate this historical vestige! 

The Hung Temple is an ancient and sacred architectural ensemble on the top of the 175 metre-high Nghia Linh mountain. The festival offers an opportunity for Vietnamese to visit their land of origin. A day before the festival, ancient and modern flags are to be hung along the road leading from Viet Tri to Hung mountain. A large ballon will also publicise the festival to surrounding areas. On the eve of the festival, 100 flying lights are released into the night sky. The main worship service is held in earnest the following morning, 10th day, beginning with a flower ceremony. In Den Thuong (Upper Temple) where the Hung Kings used to worship deities with full rituals, the ceremony consists of a lavish five-fruit feast. Banh chung (square cake) and banh giay (circle cake) are also served to remind people of the Lang Lieu Legend (the 18th Hung King who invented these cakes), and the merit of the Hung Kings who taught people to grow rice. Next to the stage procession for deities, there are several marches in the procession such as the elephant march followed by the procession chair. The procession marches are followed by a Xoan song performance (a classical type of song) in the Den Thuong, a "Ca Tru" (a kind of classical opera) in Den Ha (Lower Temple), and other activities like cross-bow shooting, rice cooking, swinging contests, cock fighting, and dragon dancing.

On the day of the Hung King Temple Festival, the Vietnamese always jubilantly take part in the festival with religious belief deeply imbedded in their minds, that is their love and pride of their ancestral land. The Festival not only attracts visitors from all over the country thanks to its special traditional cultural activities, but it is also a sacred pilgrimage back to the origins of the Vietnamese nation.

                                                                                    

Weekly menu

MENU

Mar 17^th – 22^th, 2014

	Breakfast 8h-8h30	Morning Snack 9h45-10h00	Lunch 11h30		Afternoon Snack 16h00
MON	Cheese toast w/ ham Cocoa	Fruit Milk	Lemon grass chicken Boiled vegetable Juice		Sweet potato Lemon juice
TUE	Chicken& green bean porridge Milk	Fruit Yogurt	Fried noodle w/ meat balls Juice		Fruit smoothie Crackers
WED	Raisin bread Milk	Fruit	Mashed potato Fish fingers Juice	Cooking class
THU	Peanut sticky rice Cocoa	Fruit Yogurt	Pumpkin soup Bread w/ fried egg & ham Juice	Rice cookies Drink yogurt
FRI	Scrambled egg Cheese bread Milk	Stick bread Drink yogurt	Chicken curry Rice Juice	Fruit
SAT	Cheese toast w/ ham Cocoa	Fruit Milk	Lemon grass chicken Boiled vegetable Juice	Sweet potato Lemon juice

             (Veggies are hidden in each lunch meal…J)