K2 Let's learn about seeds!

Seeds are important in the life cycle of a plant. The K2 children made predictions and observations for the number of seeds in an apple, French bean and also a mango!

Children brainstormed what they know about seeds and wrote down their thoughts on the mah-jong paper.

What was on the children's palm? They looked happy to have 'it' on their palm!

Oh! It was something that could be eaten! The children liked it and asked for 2nd and 3rd serving of the yummy food!

Wow! Another handful of food on their palm and they ate that too!

Ahah! They had just eaten sunflower and pumpkin seeds! The children learnt about edible and inedible seeds.

Next, the children predicted the number of seeds in an apple and they cut the apples to reveal the actual number of seeds. 

Look at how focused they were because it was challenging to cut the apple with plastic knife.

Children also predicted and observed the number of seeds in the French beans.

Shanice seemed very determined to open the mango seed coat to reveal to seed.

The children also learnt the different ways seeds travel. The pictures above showed that the children pretended to be the Parachute seeds. The seeds travel along with wind just like parachute, hence the term.

The pictures above showed that the children pretending to be the Velcro seeds. The velcro seeds hook themselves onto people's clothes or animals' fur and eventually they will drop onto the ground.

The pictures above showed that the children pretended to be animals eating yum-yum seeds. Animals are attracted to yummy fruits and eat them. When the animals poop, the seeds will be scattered together with the poop.

The picture above showed that children pretended to be the Floater seed, such as the coconut!

After the lesson, the children took their lunch and ate the apples that they cut!

Mum and Dad, let's find out other methods of how seeds travel or scatter.

We can also discover types of seeds when we prepare fruits for our dessert at home! 

K2 Science Experiments

Vroom! Vroom! Vroom... into the world of transportations! Children are always excited and amazed looking at the different types of transportations move in the world. They did different experiments to learn and understand how these amazing transportations move. 

Land Transportation

Zi Yang took two cars, predicted and experimented on the speed and length of the two cars when they travelled down 2 different height of ramps. He also learnt that the cars used kinetic energy when they moved down the ramps. Look at how far the orange and white cars moved! He used golden bead as a counting unit to measure which car has moved further.

Water Transportation

How does a ship floats? 

Children leant that gravity force will pull the weight of an object into the water while buoyancy force will push the weight up, thus making it afloat. 

Children went around the classroom, took any materials that is in the classroom. They predicted and experimented if the materials sink or float.

The toy spectacle floated!

The feather floated!

The ruler actually sank after Nicole pushed it into the water! 

The pencil sank!

The toy stethoscope floated!

The empty water bottle floated! 

The children's clock floated!

The children also experimented with a flat piece of aluminium foil and discovered that it sank. Then they formed the flat piece of aluminium foil into a boat and discovered that it floated! Amazing!  

Air Transportation

How does an aircraft flies in the air? It needs weight, lift, thrust and drag to enable them to be in the air. Children predicted and experimented with closed and open parachute to see which dropped to the ground faster.

Indeed it's the open parachute will stay longer in the air as it traps air within it! It's a new learning we had. Let's experiment with that at home too, Mum and Dad!

Glider, let's fly!

Flying in an airplane, looking out the window, watching the clouds go by~

Flying in an airplane, looking out the window, up so very high~

The K1s made their very own glider using simple materials: paper, scissors, scotch tape and chopstick.

The children had to cut at least two strips of paper, roll it, tape it and put them at two ends of the chopstick.

Tada! It is done! It can glide really well when the fans are switched off :)

 

Let's try this at home too Mum and Dad! Let us show you how to do it!

 

Let's fly the Parachute!

During our art and craft lesson, learning about parachute, the children took the opportunity to fine-tune their fine motor skills. 

They explored with crayons and markers on paper and plastic sheets. The children chose whether they want a gingerbread man or lady to be on the parachute!

Next, they taped the coloured-gingerbread man/lady onto a toilet roll using masking tape. Look at how focused they are!

The teacher helped to attach the plastic sheet onto the toilet roll using a yarn. The children attempted to throw the parachute into the air and observed how the parachute glide down smoothly.

Yappee! We are done! Let's make and try this at home too Mummy and Daddy!