Sleep and Dream

Wednesday (01/07/2009)

a) Flashcards
l A quick revision of words learnt earlier.

b) Our Brain: Sleep and Dreams
l We recapped the different parts of the brain.
l We talked about “sleep” and “dreams’
l When we sleep, our muscles relax, breathing and heart rate slow down and blood pressure drops. Our brain is believed to organize the information which we worked throughout the whole day earlier.
l Situations of sleep. When our eyes are moving from left to right, most probably; we are dreaming as the brain organizes information. Otherwise, we would be in deep sleep.
l Dreams occur when we think of a certain situation too much.
l Some people snore due to a cold or too tiring. The kids then share with me that sometimes their parents snore.
l Some would do sleepwalking and when they awake, they wouldn’t know about that.
l This could be a serious sickness.

c) Activity: Parachute Cloth
* Al the kids held the cloth together. On my cue “Open up”, the kids throw up the big cloth just like a parachute. Then, I called out the kids’ names and they quickly crawled under the parachute before the parachute touches them. Thus, they were using their hearing and sight senses, as well as physical movement.