Fish Tank

With the summer holiday started, and the goodbye get together rally, we havent been doing much on classroom for he past month. Yuta is asking to go back working with his classroom again so we are slowly picking up the momentum again. However we still continue with our reading routine. We have been reading alot about food chain, bugs life cycle and solar system. This is simple fish tank that i made out of the packing box from a baby doll i bought for Ai. The size and design just perfect for a fish tank, no further cutting required. Cut out some fish pictures and stick fishing thread at the back of fish picture then tape it onto the carton box. We collected those broken shell and coral from the beach when we visited cancun last time. I think the crawfish is not suppose to be there but Yuta just wanted to put him in the tank. We use this fish tank model to explain of food chain in the sea. Sharks eat medium size fish, and medium size fish eat smaller fish then small fish eat plankton/plant.

Penguin

I like to do work that both of them can do together. Put some ice cold water, some ice cube and some small figurines and they have all the fun. We all love penguins and have been reading alot about penguin. We talked about where penguins live, different type of penguin, their food etc. Later Yuta decided to pull out some fish from the fishing toy set and creating his own story about penguins and fish.

Im slowing down on math with Yuta for now. We are still working on teen numbers. For some reasons he is not so fond of me using the teen bead set. I used 2 dice to work with him. 1 dice with number 10 on all side and number 1-6 on each side for the other dice. He roll the dice and match up with number cards.

Eggs

The husband requested to have oden (braised various kind of fish cakes, hard boiled egg in soup stock) or i call it japanese version of yong tau foo. I had Yuta to peel the egg shell and wondered what i can do with those egg shell. So, i the crushed egg shell in food coloring and make a card. I guess is time to start making thank you cards for friends for our moving now. I guess it will be much easier if you dye the egg first before crushing them.

Who will be luck enough to get this thank you card

The we talked about eggs and animal that hatch from eggs. so we make our nest with plastercine, went collect some pine needle, eggs on it and all set. Yuta then make some chicks, put them in the shell and waiting for them to hatch. While we enjoy making and pretend Ai were more interested in those "Chick-ling"and shouted "quak, quak". Also make some snakes to go in those eggs.

they hatched. They are "chick-ling"


He wants to cover with them with those eggs because it was chilly that morning.

With the left over food coloring, we did colours mixing again. I didnt have red but pink, works well. By placing yellow infront of the blue filled glass, we can see the reflection of green. Sorry for the blury picture but result was good.

The result