Magic milk and smell painting!

We have been using our senses a lot this week, at KM! 

First, we all did a 'magic milk' science experiment. If you're interested in how we did it, have a look at this link:

Magic milk science experiment

I'm sorry that some of the photos are not rotated - I have had some problems with my camera and uploading! I hope you enjoy looking at them, anyway. Here is the set up of the table all ready for KM to experiment on!

 Nari and Lucy said that they wanted to see what happens to the blue when they put it into milk. Mayumi started with red because she wanted to make the milk pink.

 Ploen liked making her milk tray pink because it's her favourite colour!

 Mungkorn tested out two colours and loved seeing how they mixed!

 Irene opted for green because she said she likes green a lot!

 Lucas wanted to make his tray very red and didn't like seeing it so pink!

Arthur made a beautiful pattern with his magic milk tray!

 Gap and Lexi didn't want to add too much and took their time to observe what happened.

 Freya and Totem really liked how the colours moved out when they put the cotton bud (first dipped in soap) in!

 Harry and Linin stuck to one colour before adding more.

 So did Porsche and SunLee.

 Pailin started with light blue and had a dark brown milk tray at the end!

 EQ made a very unique pattern with his magic milk tray!

Look at some of the colour patterns that we made!

Then, we did a 'smelling experiment'. I mixed in some smells in paint and asked the children which ones they liked and which ones they thought were 'yucky!'. Some of the smells included: vanilla, cinnamon, chilli, coffee and even Sri Lankan spices!

Here they are smelling the paint before choosing the ones that they liked.

Mayumi thought it was very funny, but liked purple!

Lucy did not like the smells at all!

Pailin didn't want to smell yellow even though it was vanilla!

Ploen was scared to smell it after seeing her friends' faces!

Nari did not like purple and green, as you can tell by her face! :)

I joined in on the smelling too!

Linin was cautious but really liked it in the end.

Porsche thought it was funny when I asked him to smell the paint!

Totem almost put his face in because he liked the smells!

Here we all are smelling it again!

Irene thought it was very funny!

EQ looked cautious and shook his head at almost all the smells! :)

Mungkorn couldn't wait to smell yellow, he said purple was 'yucky!'

Here is Lucas and SunLee telling me about which ones they liked and which ones were yucky!!

As a home activity, please ask your children to smell what is around them and try to guess what those smells are. Ask them if it's nice or yucky, whether they like it or not and ask them to tell Miss.Myshi about it. I would love to hear what they've been upto at home :)

Also, here is a song about the five senses, that you can practice with your child at home. We will be doing this in class, this week!

Five senses song

Home learning 08.09.15

This week, we have started a new theme. We are focussing on using the senses of sight and sound. As a home learning task this week, encourage your child to talk about animals and what sounds they make. This will coincide well with the book we have just read (Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?).

Here are some links to the book, you can read along and encourage your child to follow, or repeat after, you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctQjLfMKinU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9O12i10tk

Guess hooooo....?

What a great week at KM! We worked together to make some beautiful owls and it was so much fun mixing colours and painting with our hands! The children also enjoyed making hand print leaves because they got to dunk their hands into paint and see their hand prints on paper with lots of colours swirled in them. 

Here they are working away! 

 Here we are working in groups to collage a moon. The children were talking about the sky, the moon and stars while collaging - we even sang 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' while working!

 Ploen and Lucy helped to paint some extra leaves after making hand print leaves.

All of KM's hard work came together on the big board at the bottom of the stairs - come and have a look next time you're in EY!

Working together is fun!

Wow! What a week! We have had so much fun learning the rules and routines of  Kindergarten. The focus of this week has been to continue to get to know each other and learn how to work together.The children have been having so much fun working and playing together - they have been sharing, using nice words and helping each other, a lot! Have a look at some of the group work that has been going on in KM, below!

Harry and Arthur shared a toy car.

Ploen had too much food on her plate, so she gave Nari some!

Working together to pull off a great tea party!

Lucy showed Freya how to draw some food on her plate. 

Irene saw that Porsche didn't have a lot of play dough, so she gave him some of hers. 

Harry, Nari, Pailin and Mayumi shared a mirror. They did an activity where they had to look at their faces and try to paste features on the right place on a face template. They did really well!

The children discovered the water area this week - and played together with KR. 

The children have been learning how to play nicely on the play ground, with Reception, too!

 Today, Lexi and Porsche fed me and Kru.Noon some delicious food, because we were hungry!

SunLee and Nari went on a shopping trip together.

Irene joined the boys in the construction area. 

And finally, we all started a project about how to reduce germs from spreading. They are working hard to finish it by Friday so their mummies and daddies can see it! Wish us luck! 
Oh, and ask them what happened when Miss.Myshi sneezed on them yesterday :)