Water
This is what every homeschooling mum dream of; a theme that happens to be in the news and for my case it was a real coincidence that this should be Singapore International Water Week when our (unplanned) theme is water.
Yesterday I read DK eye know's "water", something dearest daughter picked up from the library last week. Today we looked at the purifying process that used water goes through at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant; though of course we did not go into details.
It was also a great chance to convert figures. We converted cubic metres to litres and tonnes and Ihsan enjoyed how big the numbers were. We also compared the sizes of the tunnels relative to the size of an average man and reservoirs. The kids learnt how we can use common items to relate amounts or sizes in communicating to others.
We made a mixture with water, chickpeas, spices and tumeric and tried to sieve out as much as we can using different sieves as well as to observe the process of sedimentation. Ihsan listed out verbs that are used in the purifying process and Sofiyya used the syringe to transfer water.
Umayr, ever the rebel, of course wanted to read a book for the (planned) theme for next week 'Catching the Moon' by Myla Goldberg. I crayon sketched a moon by the water picture for him but he chose to sketch the picture from the book where the moon was rowing a boat. Now to planning for the rest of the week and next. Sometimes though things turn out best unplanned.Over dinner, Ihsan said he wanted to be a butcher, hmm that's an interesting theme to take in the future...
Yesterday I read DK eye know's "water", something dearest daughter picked up from the library last week. Today we looked at the purifying process that used water goes through at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant; though of course we did not go into details.
It was also a great chance to convert figures. We converted cubic metres to litres and tonnes and Ihsan enjoyed how big the numbers were. We also compared the sizes of the tunnels relative to the size of an average man and reservoirs. The kids learnt how we can use common items to relate amounts or sizes in communicating to others.
We made a mixture with water, chickpeas, spices and tumeric and tried to sieve out as much as we can using different sieves as well as to observe the process of sedimentation. Ihsan listed out verbs that are used in the purifying process and Sofiyya used the syringe to transfer water.
Umayr, ever the rebel, of course wanted to read a book for the (planned) theme for next week 'Catching the Moon' by Myla Goldberg. I crayon sketched a moon by the water picture for him but he chose to sketch the picture from the book where the moon was rowing a boat. Now to planning for the rest of the week and next. Sometimes though things turn out best unplanned.Over dinner, Ihsan said he wanted to be a butcher, hmm that's an interesting theme to take in the future...
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