Only if we can be on the topic of taste buds forever...

We created our Phyllis' Riccia K2 Honey Lemon Tea with the lemon from Eugene and Tea leaves from Yuhui. It was so tasty, we got to bring 40ml of it home for our family.
Yummm...honey from Australia's Honey Comb,the best we have tasted!More, more, more, please!Our taste bud won't cheat us.
It was so delicious.Teacher said last round, its already half past 1. Get ready for nap, you may get another chance at tea break!Honey comb in my dream! Sweet dream...Mom & Dad, enjoy reading my documentation on what I have learnt from this activity!

Where learning is an enjoyment

We can't wait another day for the tracking/trekking at Bukit Timah Hill, lets get our mighty muscles working...
As we walk into the "hundred-acre-woods", 16 winnie the poohs singing and echoing...
'Everywhere we go...ohh!

People want to know...ohh!

Who we are ... ahh!

Where we come from.
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So we tell them...mh!We are the ...(fill in the blanks yourself)

Promising outstanding Doctors,Lawyers,Scientists,Teachers

The 1st quarter is almost over. Despite, we often forgot that time is up and lesson is over. The children were often so engrossed with their illustration, documentation and research that we often ended class a quarter to 2pm. I can see the satisfaction and accomplishment that the children derived from their completed task all documented on their own. Discussions and questions keep going despite acknowledging 'last question'. To me, it signifies responsibility and ownership towards personal learning and curiosity in a enthusiastic and respectable manner. Cheers!

Writing or documentation has seemed to become an obsession in most of my class children. Everyday, after each hands-on or interactive activities, I get reminders/request/questions from the children as such; 'When can we start to write about the pupil and the iris?', 'Can I write the spelling words in the communication book myself?', 'Why we don't get to write today?' No wonder sentence structures and penmanship improved so tremendously-:) neater than mine!

At this point just before we round up the entire theme on 'Watch Me Grow', do you agree with me that all these children (your child) are promising future practitioner Doctors, Lawyers, Scientists and Teachers? They explore, question, analyse, discuss, justify their thoughts and share what they learn so generously.

Did you like the challenges?

By now, your child should have challenged you to the different ways of staying focus through activities like singing a song with a phase lag, skipping the last word of each line and replacing it with a clap. They have been crazy over music & movement session not knowing that I'm training their focusing skills. I have fun too!

The concept of how much/many more or less was impressively grasped by most of the children.
92% of the children also saw the correlation that how much more is equal to how much less if the subject of comparison remain the same. Wah! Are you impressed? Don't panic if your child has not understood it. However, it helps if Math can be introduced during daily activities especially grocery shopping or even over dinner. At this age, children understand math concept readily if it is relevant to them. Please avoid flooding your child with lots of drilling through worksheet or assessment book! That make matter worst most of the time.

Graph plotting and interpretation of the data was also an easy task that the children have accomplished over the past weeks.

Spelling has become very exciting to many children, a few of them can't wait to have spelling as they can compose their story using the spelling words.

Moving on the exciting journey of learning

As our learning journey gets more exciting, children were asking more questions on things that they are interested in. The topic of dinosaurs was triggered when we discussed about which animal has the largest skeletal system. It even leads to questions on how dinosaurs became extinct. Many enthusiasts brought their encyclopedia from home on the next school day to share with me and their friends. The class turned into a debating ground when children debate about which is the real cause for the dinosaurs to be extinct, the asteroid or a drought??!.
As their teacher, I was just so very proud of my students to participate whole-heartedly in their learning, their thoughts and opinion as well as their wanting to find out more and to share attitude. Cheers parents!

All the children enjoyed experiencing the touch of the harden Nian-gao and drool upon smelling it when it was soften through stir frying with egg. 1st they have to keep very quiet inorder to hear the sizzling sound when the food was added into the hot pan with oil. They watched the process of the transparent egg white turning into white colour as well as observed the Nian-gao soften. They were allowed to asked for more when they correctly described the taste of the Nian-gao.
Over the real-time assesment throughout the cookery session, all children fulfilled the objectives of excercising the right senses for each task decribed above.

On top of that, we explore the use of a microscope and compare the magnifying power to that of a magnifying glass. They were all very anxious and nagging at me to let them see how our cells look like through the microscope. But we only managed to explore that of the butterfly antenna this week. I will be providing more samples as requested by the children. We will also look into the cell membrane of a cut orange (the pulp & the fibre).

The topic of organs began with children practising the Singapore pledge with the right arm placing at the heart position. Most children are now aware that the heart is actually positioned towards the left of our body instead of in the center. We even discussed about the illegal trading of kidneys. We will continue to explore our senses and the relevant organs. At the end of this theme, children will understand clearly the functions of our organs and that skin is our largest organ.

Enjoy exploring and learning with your child.
BTW, all of them look forward to the field trip to the Bukit Timah Hill.
Objectives: - use the word 'track, tracking'
- feel their muscles at work (especially from the 2nd -3rd day after the trip)
- team building, caring for each other, leadership
It will take place ~3-5pm some time next week. Will be informed.
Participants: K2 children and teachers only