Book Week Day One and Two
We are excited about book week. We have prepared quite a few exciting activities for the children. We will have the children sharing...
Our toys and Presentation
Summative Assessment The children were given a design brief. They designed their toys. We did a lesson on using simple tools for...
Moms at Work
I invited our parents to come into the classroom to 'teach' making a toy using simple Scientific concepts. Two of our moms, (after a wee...
Learning to Use Tools
What Can You Make with Wood? Today's art lesson was all about being creative with pieces of wood. The children were taught how to use...
Toy Design
We came back from our field trip with lots of ideas. We started designing our moving toys based on the brief given. Our toy has to...
Arima Toys and Automata Museum
We went on a field trip to the Arima Toys and Automata Museum. The purpose of the trip was to prepare the children for our Summative...
Looking at Levers and Screws
We learned about two more simple machines - levers and screws. Levers are machines used to increase force. We call them "simple machines"...