How The World Works: Rockstar’s Last Learning Unit For Y2

So once again, I find myself greatly entertained by Rockstar’s school work…

Aside from a brief resemblance to our Alam Dan Manusia (rough translation: World and People?) lessons of yore which are also often heavy on the rote, Rockstar’s reading/writing/creativity exercises are pretty different than I remember…

Among others, I think this is some of what he summarized when he was supposed to use kid-friendly search engines to research…

And this one below… The pink post-its are questions his classmates write, part of which if I recall correctly were for a “Wonder Wall” about the properties of materials… Btw Rockstar told me his classmates periodically prepare and send in “extras” too, of the class-exhibits sort, with their own notes to support a learning unit, especially if they’ve been out sick or something, to make up for it I guess… The one below btw – one of his other classmates sent their preso in (chosen material was rubber, I think the mum said) on powerpoint..

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This next one I think is an experiment in school involving tissue paper, water (vaguely remember they’d been practicing measurement units online for math too), food coloring etc to show… absorption rate? I remember doing something like this but not in Y2…

What they expect to happen in the experiment…

Then the actual results…

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Looks like they got to watch some experiments from the West Island Secondary School just behind their school too…

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And another experiment… Notice anything funny about this one?

(That’s Mister Clock to you… And being amazed by experiment results does deserve a “My Goodness!” don’t you think? :D)

And he wrote “Na, Na-na-na-na!” in his science experiment illustration when the house didn’t fall down?!

The 3 little piggies would’ve approved 😀

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Lastly, this one was when they come up with an invention to illustrate their understanding of the properties of materials…

Paper umbrella with solar panels… not the “neatest” of diagrams haha but oh, so enthusiastic…

(And as always Rockstar rarely uses a lot of color…)

Paper is fine as a sun shade but not for keeping you out of the rain, goes the Black Hat thinking…

Paper sun shade => solar power => for charging laptops and iPhones <roll eyes> and boosting wi-fi reception <double roll eyes>

So this would be about the end, except about this time is when I might get a note if I don’t put a cute kid pic (or two) up, so here they are.

Dis is not Rockstar.

DIS is Rockstar (guest appearance by Spaghetti)

De ends.

ps: And the black hat/ yellow hat stuff has to do with the kinds of thoughts or questions they’re supposed to come up with based on each colored hat… I’m guessing this is similar to when they made choices classified as “red” or “green” since Kindy days….