Before Autumn break, the Grade 1s chose two topics that interest them the most and they committed to find information about those choices they made.
Last week and this week, they made either a poster or a booklet to share the information they gathered. They used the success criteria below in making their poster/booklet.
After making their posters/booklets, they shared their findings about their chosen celestial bodies to their classmates. They followed a pair-share routine. They were given 3 minutes to share their findings to their classmates. The posters are also posted in the classroom too.
Rotation vs Revolution
This is a very interesting topic that our Grade 1s explored this week. A lot of them came up with lots of other questions such as:
- If the Earth is moving, why can't we feel it?
- Why are we not falling off the Earth and to space?
- What happens if the Earth stop spinning?
- Does time also stop when the Earth stop turning?
Misconceptions were also cleared and corrected.
- The sun goes up and down the sky.
- The sun goes around the planets.
- The Earth is standing still.
Great minds, Grade 1s!
Halloween is one of the events that kids look forward to. They look forward to dressing up, getting treats and playing games.
It starts with decorating the door, shopping for costumes and packing treats, to playing games on the day itself, playing Halloween-themed activities, trick o'treating, and others.
Here is our Halloween preparation and celebration at DSKI.
Gravity is an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other, and because it is invisible, it is mysterious.
A couple of kids in the class wonder about the planets revolving around the sun and the moons revolving around planets. They are curious why revolution around a celestial body happen.
To address this, we started with getting an understanding of the force that is responsible for this - gravity.
The class did a simple experiment with magnets and paper clips. Through this, so far, they get a glimpse of that mysterious force that keeps the planets organised in our solar system
Our Grade 1s never run out of interesting things to share. 😊
This week, we again saw different objects shared by our Grade 1 learners. They explained what the items can do and answered our questions about them as well such as 'Where did you buy it?' ' Why do you like it?' 'How much is it?' and others.
We started this week finding out what Grade 1s already know about space. We did it posting up statements about objects on space, and the learners wrote their names under YES column if they agree, NO column, if they do not agree and MAYBE column if they are not sure.
Some of the statements include:
- The sun is a star.
- Pluto is a planet.
- The coldest planet is Jupiter.
- There are 8 planets in the solar system.
- Others
For our last day of Show and Tell, the students shared an object that they find interesting. They shared information about their favourite ...
