Brainy Kids Schoolhouse (Woodlands): November 2014

Let's embark on a journey to Primary School

In the month of June, the K2 children had the opportunity to do a project work on the theme 'Going to Primary School'. They surely had pretty lots of enquiries regarding life as a primary school student. To make the learning journey an interesting one, we invited our alumni, Yeo See Kang, to brief our K2 children regarding life in primary school.

Yeo See Kang giving briefing to the K2s all about Primary School.

Yeo See Kang showed his K2 friends how to pack his bag, went through his school diary and answered his K2 friends' queries.

Apart from getting informations from our alumni, the K2 children also brainstormed on questions pertaining to Primary School life such as curriculum and timetable, food served, and friends and teachers.

They wrote down their questions in a paper and attempted to find answers. The K2s had the opportunity to use the laptop and internet to search for a few answers. It helps to practice spelling and reading in order to search for the information required.

They also borrowed books from Woodlands Regional Library about school map, and food (so they can plan for menu for canteen food).

Look at focused the children are, while planning out the school map!

After all the planning, the K2s seemed to be geared up for Primary School! Let's wish them all the best and continue to have a joyful learning experience ahead!

Wild Animals

In the month of October, the K1s and K2s learned about wild animals. They focused on the body patterns and body coverings.

To begin with, the children had to draw out pictures of animals body coverings from a mystery bag.

Once everyone had drawn out the pictures from the mystery bag, they shared the pictures with friends.

They had to guess the which animals the body coverings belong to and match the pictures to the names of animals.

Children recalled the names of wild animals and their body coverings and wrote down the informations on a piece of mahjong paper.

scale
fur / hair
skin
armoured
rough
smooth

They also did a short experiment on how a polar keeps it body warm in the cold, chilly Arctic.

The children were given 2 tubs of ice and placed their index fingers in the tubs.

then one of their index fingers was wrapped with vegetable shortening to act as the polar bear's body fats. The children got to experience of how it felt like having bare finger and finger wrapped in vegetable shortening in the tub of ice!

Children were heard commenting that there was really a difference!