Water and Us

Wednesday (11/02/009)

a) Storybook: The Shark That Had No Teeth
The story was about the sea creatures in an ocean.
Cruncher was a greedy shark until one day, he tried crunching a turtle when all his teeth suddenly fell off!
His life changed and nobody was scared of it. Even its friends laughed at him.
When he started feeling sad, its friends had to do something. They made him false teeth out of seashells.
I extended the story whereby the kids searched for salt in the sea. They rescued a crab that couldn’t find any water. While rowing the boat, they saw a sick shark who told them that its friends including the octopuses and lobsters are sick due to humans’ thrown rubbish.
An old man was fishing near there and went home to cook the fish. Is this healthy?
The kids said that they could use a big net to pull out the rubbish. That’s a good idea although precautions are important.

b) Voting for our new theme.
We talked about the possible themes. A) Water and body, b) Sea animals or c) Water and us. Only 1 person chose (a), 14 chose (b) while 18 chose (c).
Thus, we would be doing the theme, “water and us”.

c) Analyzing our experiment
Sharlene reminded me of our experiment. She is a very responsible girl.
The kids was amazed that there was still some water. Just slightly lesser than earlier. We looked into the sky. It was a cloudy day, not hot. Could that be the reason?
We agreed to take them out tomorrow morning until afternoon to see a different result. Hopefully it will be hot tomorrow.

d) Video Clip: Making Sugar Cane
The kids saw how they crushed the sugarcanes using the machines like by the roadside. Then, they boiled the sugarcane juice until it becomes thick,
Then, they filter the liquid. There, you can have the sugarcane syrup now.