May 13 Daily Report
Hello everyone, In today’s PBL, the children continued to classify insects and small bugs. Today we learned more about the habitats of insects and sorted them into their natural environments. Additionally, we played a guessing game where the children guess the name of specific insects based upon clues about their characteristics. The children also completed a cut and paste activity in which they sorted caterpillars by length from shortest to longest. This was a continuation from yesterday’s mathematics lesson. In phonics, the children reviewed the recent digraphs they have learned. These included zz, qu, sh, ch, th, ng & ai. The children identified words that contain the digraphs from within a cluster of pictures. In Chinese class, the children learned about the concept of weight, heavy and light. Using a pair of women’s tights as a balance scale, the children identified which one was heavy and which one was light from a number of selected objects. 今天的中文数学课,我们从一杆秤开始来认识重量以及轻重。不过,光看秤杆有点抽象,于是我们请出了更直观的“裁判”——天平。孩子们亲手做了个小实验:先在天平两边各放一只玩具小猴,两个托盘一样高,像在玩跷跷板;接着在一侧又加了一只小猴,嘿,有两只小猴的那边嗖地掉下去了,只剩一只的那边则翘得高高的。大家一下子就明白了—–重的会往下沉,轻的会往上翘,这个秘密可太好玩啦!发现了这个规律,我们马上把天平原理用到了自己身上。用平衡板代替托盘,两个小朋友分别站到两边,谁重谁那边的板子就会沉下去,身体轻一点的就会被“抬”起来。孩子们争着上来体验,笑声不断。最后每个人都领到了一双丝袜,挑两样小东西装进袜筒里,两手一提,就像自制的小天平——哪边沉下去,哪边的物品就更重。看着丝袜一高一低的样子,孩子们笑着喊:“石头重一些\剪刀轻一些”。 就这样,从玩具到身体再到生活小物件,我们一路玩着,一路把“轻重”装进了心里。 Daily Menu Moments