I thought I’d post a quick video of Ivy 2 class singing one of the songs out of their Let’s Go 1 book. They’re mostly 1st graders, but a few older student. At the time of this video, they were learning shapes and toys. You know, I wish my beginning Korean book was set up more like ESL books. It’s nice to learn to say your name and everything, but then chapter two shot up about 2 levels. Alas, that’s probably more of my problem.
So please enjoy “It’s a Yo-Yo”.
I was going through old videos and uploaded some to YouTube. This is finally after getting myself logged back into my account. Something is buggered (or was buggered) with this stupid linking your Google and YouTube account. But I digress.
This is a video done right before 2009 annual presentations. These kids would be first graders now. I proudly present Newton Class from Little Campus.
One science class, we made Glook. It’s really simple and safe enough for even small kids. All you need is cornstarch and water (plus food coloring if you want extra fun). Mix in about a 2:1 ratio. You’ll probably be quite surprised.
Glook is a non-Newtonian fluid. It doesn’t behave as a solid or a liquid exclusively. If you put pressure on it, it acts like a solid (and as Jamie and Adam showed us in MythBusters, you can even walk on it). If you try to pick it up, it acts like a liquid.
I did it with Summer and Winter classes and they all loved it. I even had fun with it.
Here’s a fun video showing it on a speaker.
I love singing songs with my kiddos. The lower level course books usually have OK songs. This one is from “Let’s Go 2″ and is teaching ‘like’ and ‘want’.
The video features Winter Class, 4 1st graders and a kindergartener. Brian, Ella and Joy were in Maple Kinder. Amy and Juliet are new students.
The C1 Speaking and Writing class has been reading James and the Giant Peach with me for the last few months. I’ve decided to take it slow and do a whole lot of fun stuff with it. I’ll outline those activities in another post. In our last couple of classes we’ve been doing advertisements to see the Giant Peach before it rolls off on its adventures. One of those things we did was make commercials to get people to come see the peach. This is Eric’s commercial. He is a third grader. His commercial seriously cracked me up, especially the “la la la” part.
I’ve somewhat lax in keeping my blog updated. I do have stuff to post. I’ve just been insanely busy. So here’s a sneak peek.
I’ve increased the number of class periods C1 studies science from two a week to three a week. Right now, I’m focusing on what real scientists do. For second and third graders this can be a puzzling thing. In order to introduce the scientific method, I demonstrated the diet coke/mentos fountain last Friday.
On Monday, I introduced students to the idea of the scientific method. I gave them a handout with a nice diagram of the scientific method and pertinent vocabulary terms on the reverse (links go to two pdf files). After we went over them, I quizzed the students orally.
Next week, I’ll let the students get in their groups and they will start talking about what variables they want to manipulate to try to figure out the important ingredient or conditions for the fountain. They will also have to determine the measure they will use as their dependent variable. The students will have to write a hypothesis and procedure to test their hypothesis. Once that is complete, the students will actually test their hypothesis by gathering data (woo hoo, playing outside). Finally, they will create a poster outlining their experiment.
I’ll keep you updated as we go through the procedure.
Kathryn Marks
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