Animal Homes: Squirrels. They live on trees and can climb up the trees very quickly. We pretended to climb up like squirrels too! Visiting Snail: Ms Hima got us two snails she found near her home. We observed them over two days. On day one in the morning we gave them names. Each of us called it by different names. Next morning the we observed some liquid and lots of black things. It had eaten the apple and then pooped and peed. We observed how it moved very slowly. The snails' antenna is where its eye were. It was slimy just like the slime we play with. It's shell was hard and it went into the shell to hide from us. We let them go before we went home on Friday afternoon. Make 10: We are working on our number skills and figuring out different ways to combine objects to make 10 Field Trip: Botanic Garden We saw lots of insects and animals of the rainforest in the botanic garden. It was important to protect them by not polluting our environment, not cutting down trees and following the 3 R's Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We saw the Touch Me Not plant. When we touched the plant it got scared and collected all its leaves together.
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Loads of fun playing and making animal stories. Birds or bats? After reading the book Stellaluna by Janell Cannon, we wanted to fly like birds and hang upside down like bats! Pet- Bella: Samuel's mummy bought their pet cat Bella to school. Hugh, Samuel's brother also came to our class to share a lot information about cats. We learnt about what they eat, how they see and smell (sniff), how they shed their hair, how they clean themselves, when they sleep and lots more. We all wished we had pets whom we could to take care for. When Bella had settled and was comfortable in our classroom , we took turns to stroke her. We had to be gentle with her. Racing to 10: We played the game of racing bear and quick images on the ten frame. We are working on our counting- on strategy and finding number bonds to 10. World Kindness Day November 13th: The entire Paterson campus students got together to spread kindness by saying kind words to each other. We were treated to small treats made by the teachers. Later we got together with our grade 5 buddies and made a card for people who are special to us, spreading kindness. House Event on Friday: Sack race fun!
Rhyming words: We have been continuing to focus on rhyming words. We read lots of books and found rhyming words in them, made a list of rhyming words with our buddies and played the game of bingo to find rhyming words. Days of the week: We have been sequencing the days of the week in the right order. We have also been trying to remember the days that come before and after. Investigating and Inquiring: Human interaction with other living things. After visiting Mr Aik's garden where we saw lots of bees, we wanted to inquire about the bees. Ms Miriam and Ms Sophie found some honeycomb and we have started looking more keenly into it. To help us look into it closely Ms Smita set up the microscope and the magnifying glass. On looking closer: I see a passageway. Maybe it is for the bees to go. I see honey. Wow! I see honey! It is like all yellow. It looks like fire. So cool! I can smell honey. Do bees eat honey? I don't think. The bears eat it! Ms Patty the Head of Learning Support showed us a video about her son who has a 'bee farm'. She showed us how the mother bee attracts all the other bees and how honey is made. We looked at the similarities and differences in plants when it was taken care of by people and when it was left to nature to be taken care of. We noticed that the plants in Mr Aik's garden had to be watered everyday but the big trees grew on their own and got their water when it rained. What do scientists do to help nature? We went up to the science lab where the G6 students showed us how scientists heat the water and get salt. Dr Jermaiah (Ashritha and Anjali's mom) also showed us how to make dirty water into clean water by filtering it. Parent sharing! Ceyone's mom brought their pet frogs to class. She talked to us about the lifecycle of the frog, how it turns from an egg to a tadpole to a frog. We were all so excited to see the frog. One frog stayed still and did not move, whereas the other one regularly jumped. Happy Diwali: A collaborative 'Rangoli' by the Elementary school.
Garden in our school: Who takes care of it? We went and met Mr Aik our security guard, who also takes care of our garden. He showed us the beautiful 'Japanese Roses' that he planted. Later he helped us plant our very own pot of Japanese Rose. The flowers are so beautiful we decided to capture them on paper. Mystery Reader Mrs Grant our Library teacher from last year came to school to read us two stories on trees. We made connections to our unit and found out that trees give good oxygen and take in bad oxygen. They help us stay alive. So we should not cut down trees. If there are no trees we will die. Continuity of day and night leading to days of the week: Continuing our inquiry into day and night we looked at how the day and night cycle continued and turned into a week. The days of week also kept repeating. Focusing on forming the letter 'S': Understanding the concept of a word and adding finger spaces between each word. Mathematics: Day and Night We explored Day and Night. We divided the day into morning, afternoon, evening and night. We associated and made connections of the different activities to the different times of the day. Along with the K1's we explored how the earth moves, discovering that when it is night in Singapore, it is day in different parts of the world. Unit Of Inquiry: Sharing the Planet Central Idea: Human actions affect other living things Lines of inquiry: Human interaction with other living things The result of human behaviour on other living things Concepts: Causation, Change, Responsibility We sorted lots of objects in two categories 'Alive 'and 'Unalive'. We shared our knowledge and knew that things that are alive have to grow, eat and breathe. Enjoying our snack in our gardens! Daily 5 We have been focusing on finding and producing rhyming words. HALLOWEEN!
Measurement Mania! This week we had loads of fun understanding the concept of weight. We inquired into: Heavy Light Heavier Lighter Balanced We used the balancing scale to measure different objects and we also made our own balance scale! We weighed ourselves and tried to find objects heavier and lighter than us. Mystery Reader!
We were given several clues to solve who would be the mystery reader. We solved the mystery and found out that it was Samuel's daddy! He read us 'Dinosaur Island'. It was so much fun! We all wished that our parents would come and read! Healthy Meal, Measurement and our G5 Buddies! How do we combine all the three? We decided to make a healthy plate of food with our G5 buddies! Since we could not use ovens or gas, we decided to make: Salad Sandwiches Strawberry milkshakes Did we get all the food groups in? Yes we did! Then we decided to use our measuring skills to measure all the ingredients to make them tasty and perfect. We collaborated with our G5 buddies, worked together, took turns and helped each other. Measuring heavy and light: We explored the different equipments. We found that the needle moves when we put things on the weighing scale. We also found that the balance scale can go up and down like a see-saw. The side which goes down is the heavier side. The side which goes up is the lighter side. We also noticed that sometimes both sides can be the same. They are balanced. Our Show: Connection with Global Goal #3 - Good Health and Wellbeing Measuring capacity Filling different size circles with water drops, playing Bingo with capacity word cards, sequencing glasses filled with various capacity from empty to full, filling bottles with pompoms and playing a game on the computer to fill a huge barrel with water, was all the fun things we did to further our knowledge on capacity. Eating Healthy Eating foods from all the food groups is important to stay healthy. We found out that there are 5 food groups, vegetable, fruits, protein, grain and milk. We should have foods from all these groups to stay healthy. So we made our own healthy plate. KidsStop: Healthy Kitchen Here we revisit the different food groups and the importance of eating a variety of foods by cooking our very own delicious and healthy meal.
Should we sit at home and watch TV or go out and play? Viggo: Should go to the waterpark. Zoe: Should play with friends. Ashritha, Tyler and Ceyone: Go outside so that we can exercise. Advaith: If we don't go out we will not have friends. Should we sleep on time? Vivaan: We should get enough rest. Zoe: We need energy. Advaith: If we don't sleep we will be tired. Leya: Big bad wolf will eat if we don't sleep. Viggo: We can play with our friends in the morning if we sleep. Leya: Eyes will be spoilt. Should we eat chips ar carrot? Leya: Chips will make us fat. Reika: We can eat it sometimes. Anjali: We should eat carrot. It is good for our eyes. Healthy or Unhealthy? We then sorted foods in healthy and unhealthy category. Measuring length We measured the length of out friends and compared it with each other. We noted that Ashritha is longer than Anjali when she is lying down. Ceyone is longer than viggo when they are lying down. Measuring capacity: When Ms Smita showed us a container and asked us what we could measure with it, we said: milk, sugar, flour, water, juice, bunch of petals or flowers, honey, ink. We knew some words connected to capacity like full and empty. We learnt some new ones like half, quarter, almost full/nearly full. We noted that half is two quarters put together and almost full is three quarters put together. It was so much fun in the sandpit and the water tub, to fill our containers to full, half, nearly full, and empty it. Mystery reader!
We all became detectives! We were given several clues to solve who was going to be the mystery reader! We solved the mystery and found out it was Sammy's mum who was going to read us a story. She read us the book 'Topsy Turvy'. We could not stop laughing at all the things that turned upside down. We then used our creativity to make or draw something Topsy Turvy! |
AuthorWe are the class of K2 consisting of 5 and 6 year olds. Our teacher, Ms Smita, facilitates our learning through inquiry and lots of fun! Archives
May 2019
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