Handling finances wisely is an important life skill your kids need to succeed. Instead of allowing advertisers and credit card companies to be the influencers on money matters in your home, you can teach your kids to be money-smart at any age.

Discover tools to teach your kids – not just to survive, but to thrive financially by joining us for this upcoming Parenting Workshop as scheduled on 17 Jul 2010 (Saturday).

Click HERE to download the workshop details (PDF document).

Click HERE for the registration form (PDF document).

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In addition, research shows that children form food preferences mostly during their pre-school years, and the eating habits and preferences acquired during this time remain with them later on in life.

Good eating habits cultivated during childhood are also more likely to be carried over into adulthood. For example, studies have found that when pre-school children observed other children eating vegetables that they themselves did not like, their preferences and their intake of vegetables subsequently increased.

At Blossom, we acknowledge that young children who attend child care centres spend a major part of their day at the centres while their parents are at work and recognise that childcare centres play an important role in shaping children’s food habits.

Hence, since 2008, Blossom has been actively involved in the Healthy Eating in Child Care Centres Programme initiated by the Health Promotion Board (HPB).

At the end of 2009, with the aims of cultivating good eating habits and providing nutritional food for our growing children, we undertook an exercise to create, trial and finally launch the Blossom Healthier Choice Menu.

In addition to incorporating dietary guidelines, Blossom also includes nutrition education for children in the curriculum, as well as displaying nutrition information within the premises of our child care centres.

We worked hard in creating and recreating our new menu, making sure nutrition, taste, variety etc were not left out. Our efforts paid off as our dedication in providing healthy eating in our centres were recognised.

We successfully attained the standard and guidelines set by HPB and are now proud recipients of the Healthy Eating Award 2010.

Not only are we absolutely thrilled to have received the award, the greatest achievement for us, is the satisfaction we get from our children’s positive response and enthusiastic appetites to the newly created dishes!

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“Erm... Do you see anything yet, Alex?” asks Boon Leong as they rub gently on the cotton paper to spread the ink to have the picture appear!

This June holiday, Blossom revisited classic children’s fairytales and folklore. One particular highlight of the holiday programme included a trip down to the Singapore Arts Museum for an art workshop.

The K1 & K2 children had the opportunity to see how storybooks were printed in the good old days, way before colour printing was introduced!

They tried their hands on the wood and lino printing and had great fun making ink prints of different scenes from the story of the Gingerbread Man, which we later compiled to make our very own class Gingerbread Man booklet!

The children making colourful prints on cards, using Linoleum pieces.

“Rub, rub, rub and Wa-la! The picture appears!” Hui Si and Wan Yun hard at work.

More beautiful colours and patterns! Our young artists are busy at work.

The children also enjoyed listening to all time favourites such as The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, Cinderella and lots more!

They were engaged in an array of activities related to the various stories including role-playing and story-telling!

Three Little Pigs

Emily and Glenda (K1) are making ice-cream stick puppets of the three little pigs.

“And the wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down!”, narrates Hui Si (K1), as she re-enacts the story of The Three Little Pigs in Mandarin, using her hand made model of the 3 little pigs’ houses.

Goldilock and the Three Bears

“Someone’s been sleeping in my bed!” says angry Papa Bear (Ken Yu, K2)

The three bears return home from their walk, as Goldilocks sleeps soundly upstairs!

These are the ingredients used to prepare the porridge for the Bear Family!

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Like many of us who are looking forward for a new beginning in 2010, there is this group of IMH patients who are optimistic and are working very hard for a better future. Despite suffering from mental illness, they are talented in baking delicious cookies!

Thanks to Laksania, a Social Enterprise of Spice Connection Pte Ltd, they initiated a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Project that established a Central Kitchen within IMH to provide job opportunities and hope to the IMH patients. With the goal to sell a thousand bottles of Laksania cookies to enterprises and institutions, CartMomo initiated the “A Thousand Hearts & Names” campaign on 1 Jan 2010.

Blossom Edugroup did not hesitate to lend a hand to this charitable cause and was delighted to be part of this meaningful project, as it gave the staff and our families the opportunity to impart the value of compassion in our children.

With the generosity and tremendous support from all of our staff, children and parents we helped to ring in a total sale of more than $1,000 from all 4 Blossom branches.

No matter the amount raised, Blossom Edugroup is indeed privileged to be given the opportunity to be part of this worthy cause and learn about compassion, how we can help those in need, with a small but significant step.

We thank our parents for their generous orders and feel very good in making a difference in someone else’s life.

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The programme for the day kicked off with a storytelling session on the origins of Chinese New Year by Liu Lao Shi.

Then, Gu Lao Shi introduced a mini lion head, scrolls with good luck inscriptions, and of course mandarin oranges and everything else to do with Chinese New Year celebrations.

And what’s Chinese New Year without the ever popular new year songs! Blossom came alive as everyone joined in the chorus which was accompanied by an impromptu lion dance by our Nursery 1 children!  Lets zoom in on all the fun we had!

Peek-a-boo! Our little Lion dancer Conrad, trying on the mini Lion head!

The children held up auspicious good luck decoration while showing off their traditional Chinese outfits! ‘Gong Xi, Gong Xi”

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Together with two of his furry puppet friends, Joseph the Magician from Magic Avenue brought us some interesting messages about eating right.

Joseph’s ventriloquist act certainly delighted the children while introducing the healthy food pyramid and explaining the benefits of eating the correct food from each of the food groups.

Joseph the Magician entertained the children with his pet puppets and a quiz on healthy eating. The children were fascinated by the giant food pyramid and the “talking” puppets!

It was an entertaining and informative session for all our children! What better way to learn about healthy living and eating right!

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Mr Lawrence Lim, answering parents’ queries.

Blossom’s annual Curriculum Briefing session saw a number of keen parents participating in it.

This year we incorporated 3 new improvements to our curriculum:  The highly acclaimed ‘Kindermusik’ programme in our Playgroup and Nursery 1 Creative Expression subject, a newly re-vamped and improved English Creative Writing enrichment programme and our Parent Partnership Programme.

During the session, parents were briefed on the goals and deliverables from our two new programmes, as well as, gain a further insight into our other subjects and a browse through with our teaching resources.

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Damien’s mum, Hazel sharing a story with the Nursery 1 and Playgroup children.

Research suggests that a critical factor in a child’s education success is parental involvement.

It strengthens the connection between home and school and enables our children to reach their full potential academically, socially and developmentally.

In line with this, during the last December holiday, we invited our parents to get themselves actively involved through storytelling, sharing their talents and offering their time to come down for a Kindermusik celebration and demonstration!

Just look at all our teachers, parents and children having a fantastic time participating in our Kindermusik celebration and demonstration!

Our parents didn’t forget to lend their hands as acting parent volunteers for our December excursion. Cheers! Parents of Berrykidz, we value your time and contributions!

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“Roar!” says T-Rex! As everyone observes T-Rex’s body characteristics and movements.

To introduce and learn all about prehistoric life, we organized an excursion on 15 Dec 09 to have a look and learn about the various species of dinosaurs, their characteristics, eating habits and habitats.

The life-size dinosaur exhibits, heart-pounding music, lighting and special effects made the learning experience come to live! Although the names of the dinosaurs were a mouthful, we all had plenty of fun and excitement while being introduced to a piece of history!

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Magic and ventriloquism created much laughter from the floor while instilling in our children the importance of keeping safe at home and at the playground while having fun!

What an exciting and unusual way to learn about safety!

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