Did Isaac discover gravity?
I am such a tech-less person, having problems with my photo thing again and am not able to upload them. Anyway, today has been a fruitful day, well for me at least, although I think the kids enjoyed it too. I did all my presentations, what's happened to letting the kids work independently and not teaching too much? Hehehe...
Anyway, I started with reading 'Maths Curse' by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith as I am doing Math presentations today, the book is about how you can look at anything in life as a Math problem. The kids find it hilarious. Thereafter, I picked up from my bedtime story to Umayr from the book 'Moon' by Stewart Ross in the chapter ' The Moon as a symbol' which talked about moons being used in buildings ( such as the mosques during the Ottoman empire) and in flags. The book also has a chapter (each chapter 2 pages only but good enough for kids) on Muslim scholars and actually attributed the Quran for promoting scientific thinking and Muslim scholars for being more advanced in astronomy than their western counterparts.They attributed the Muslim scientists for knowing about gravity centuries before Newton.
So today, I took out my dusty flags of the world chart and we started searching for flags which has a moon in them and counting how many and wondering why. Umayr, chose out of all the colourful flags before him, to draw our national flag which was great cause then we can move on to talk about National Day on another occassion.
I presented the number rods to Sofiyya, with a mention of building the steps for Rapunzel as per my earlier story to her, this time with the number cards 1 to 10 for each rod to connect with the quantity reflected on them. I then read ' Little Miss Muffet Counts to Ten' by Emma Chicester Clark to her, which was basically the same rhyme on each page with a twist that ends up in her birthday party. I'm getting very dependent on storybooks aren't I?
I revised types of triangles with Ihsan today with the triangle drawer of the geometric cabinet through the three period lesson and triangle chart emphasising the equality of sides and type of angle. I'm getting carried away with books today and yes we had a book to go with it: 'Archimedes: ancient greek mathematician' by Susan Keating and Stefano Tartarotti where we read the chapter on geometry. The book is written from the viewpoint of a governor sent to Sicily during the Roman empire who wanted to learn more about Archimedes.
Maybe tomorrow we're just gonna go look at trees and insects....
Anyway, I started with reading 'Maths Curse' by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith as I am doing Math presentations today, the book is about how you can look at anything in life as a Math problem. The kids find it hilarious. Thereafter, I picked up from my bedtime story to Umayr from the book 'Moon' by Stewart Ross in the chapter ' The Moon as a symbol' which talked about moons being used in buildings ( such as the mosques during the Ottoman empire) and in flags. The book also has a chapter (each chapter 2 pages only but good enough for kids) on Muslim scholars and actually attributed the Quran for promoting scientific thinking and Muslim scholars for being more advanced in astronomy than their western counterparts.They attributed the Muslim scientists for knowing about gravity centuries before Newton.
So today, I took out my dusty flags of the world chart and we started searching for flags which has a moon in them and counting how many and wondering why. Umayr, chose out of all the colourful flags before him, to draw our national flag which was great cause then we can move on to talk about National Day on another occassion.
I presented the number rods to Sofiyya, with a mention of building the steps for Rapunzel as per my earlier story to her, this time with the number cards 1 to 10 for each rod to connect with the quantity reflected on them. I then read ' Little Miss Muffet Counts to Ten' by Emma Chicester Clark to her, which was basically the same rhyme on each page with a twist that ends up in her birthday party. I'm getting very dependent on storybooks aren't I?
I revised types of triangles with Ihsan today with the triangle drawer of the geometric cabinet through the three period lesson and triangle chart emphasising the equality of sides and type of angle. I'm getting carried away with books today and yes we had a book to go with it: 'Archimedes: ancient greek mathematician' by Susan Keating and Stefano Tartarotti where we read the chapter on geometry. The book is written from the viewpoint of a governor sent to Sicily during the Roman empire who wanted to learn more about Archimedes.
Maybe tomorrow we're just gonna go look at trees and insects....
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