The Mixed Up Chameleon

We are doing a theme on The Wonderful World of Eric Carle.  The Mixed-Up Chameleon is one of his books.  Beautiful story that tells us that it is always better to be ourselves.  I told the children we must strive to be the best that we can be - A BETTER SELF!

ALL ABOUT SCIENCE (2)

More pictures to share!

 Baking a pizza - also a lesson in science

 

 

  

 

Building and construction - finding the most stable foundation

 

 

Which is hard and more stable?

  

 

 This structure is also very stable and forms the foundation of tents.

 

  

 The Colour Box 3 - all about colours and tones

 

 

 Parts of a tree - bark. leaves, fruits, roots

 

 

 

 Rainbow!

  

 

 Catching a rainbow!

 

 

 

 

Admiring a double rainbow in the sky

 

 Germination on Day 2

 

 

  Germination on Day 6

  

 

 Flowers, Flowers!

 

  

 They are beautiful, so are we!

 

 

 Do you like my flowers?

 

 

 Fruits Galore!

 

 

 So many to taste!  What are cikus???

 

 

Playing with magnets - same poles repel, different poles attract!

 

 

  

 Putting out the flame with carbon dioxide, produced by mixing vinegar and baking soda.

 

 

ALL ABOUT SCIENCE! (1)

Science is everywhere.  Working with Little Scientist, we have a hands-on science programme in Little Beans for children from 3 to 6.  Innovative, fun and experimental, children (and teachers) learn all about science the fun way.  Visit Little Scientist website for more information at www.LittleScientistS.com.  On top of that, we learn science the Montessori way as well as through our monthly themes.

 

 Making a model of our lung - we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.

 

 

 

 Inhale- our lungs expand,  exhale - our lungs contract

 

 

Threading through the hand model and the pull the strings, the hand moves like a real one!

 

 

  

 Learning about surface tension and bubbles through play.

 

 

 Parts of a tree

 

  

 

 

 Parts of a turtle, parts of an insect

 

 Parts of a fish - scales, gills, head, tail, fin 

 

 

 

 

 Pasting the scales onto the fish template

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watering our onion bulbs 

 

 

 

 And watch them grow!

 

 

 

 

 

 Crickets upclose!

 

 

 Looking at the crickets through a magnifying bug viewer

 

  

 

 

  

 Fishes swimming in the bowl

 

 

 Making our own colourful fish

 

 

Dot with food colouring, spray with water and watch the colours spread

 

 

 

 Blue + Yellow = Green

 

 Red + Yellow = Orange

 

 Blue + Red = Purple

 

 

 

 

Beautiful fish, our very own!

 

Fishes swim together as a school

 



THEME BOARDS 2013

We had an interesting year so far, with a myriad of themes to engage the children in learning new things as well as to enrich their vocabulary and understanding of  our beautiful world.  Below are some of the theme boards so far, and the themes which we discussed.  Some of them will be detailed in my later blog entries.  Thanks to the teachers who made the themes great successes - BEAUTIFUL INDEED!

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn - talks about the first day of school and the separation anxiety that the child faces.  Beautiful story to help settle a child into the school environment.

 

Chinese New Year 2013

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Chun Lian written by the 6-year old children 

I AM SPECIAL.

 

 

Each child has a right to a happy family.

 

 

The right to learn, explore and make new friends

 

 

The right to a safe and healthy community

 

 

The right to a sustainable environment.

 

 

 Our Community Theme

 

 

Under Construction 

 

All About Trees

 

 

Birds live in trees.

 

Parts of a tree - flowers

 

 

Branch

 

Wise old owl .... in the tree

 

 

Oceans!

 

5 Layers of the Ocean

 

 

 

 All About Clothes

 

 

Sports and Games

 

 

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