One of our home-schooled children has been busy working on a Science project all about Hurricanes.
The project focused on what Hurricanes are and how to react if one approaches..
Our home-schooled children have been creating some wonderful abstract work of art focusing on Marble painting.
Marbling has been around for over 1000 years, with beautiful examples in ancient Turkish and Japanese texts.
It is known as Suminagashi in Japan.
Today there are artists who specialise in ancient marbling techniques.
This was a fun and easy marble activity that allowed the children to self-direct their learning, while enhancing hand-eye co-ordination.
The children got to create swirling patterns of pigment on water and captured them on paper.
Our home-schooled children have been developing a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour and pattern, using watercolours to create a background.
Firstly, the children used a small piece of paper to try out the watercolours. Then they used the skills to colour and create a picture of a hot air balloon.
Our home-schooled students have been using nets to create 3D Shapes.
3D shapes such as cubes, cuboids and pyramids were made.
The children were taught how to recognise, describe and build simple 3D shapes, including making nets.
They were shown a cube and cuboid and then given some squared paper on which to make a net which helped them make an identical shape.
In Science, our home-schooled children have been learning about different types of germs & bacteria.
Germs are tiny organisms. They are so small that they are not visible to the naked eye and can only be seen using a microscope.
Many germs are useful and keep our bodies healthy. Some types of germs are even used to make food like bread and cheese, or as medicine like antibiotics.
Occasionally, germs can make us feel poorly. Only certain types of germs can have this effect.
There are 4 main types of germ: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi & Protozoa.
Our home-schooled children have been busy participating in a science experiment which involved making coloured carnations.
They made colourful carnations from fresh, white carnations using food colouring and water.
The children experimented with red and green food colouring creating different-coloured flowers by using the plant’s ability to absorb water through its stem.
Children have been looking at Abstract Art focusing on Modern Art at Tuition Club.
The children have looked at various artists and focused on Sally Trace’s work.
Sally Trace’s work focuses on fine art prints on canvas made from high resolution images of her original paintings.
They explored Sally Trace’s work using different Art mediums such as crayons, water colours and acrylics.
As we are coming towards the end of term, children have been revisiting topics of Ecology and Plant Nutrition/respiration in plants as well as many other areas.
Display posters were created which involved diagrams and pictures showing the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants.
By the end, the children were able to demonstrate understanding of the process of seed dispersal, the processes of pollination, fertilisation and germination as well mention the different stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant.
Our home-schooled children have been working together to make a mini-ecosystem for earthworms, using a soda bottle and a little creativity.
As with all other organisms, earthworms occupy a certain niche: They are both decomposers and consumers, feeding on things like decomposing remains, manure, and other small underground organisms like nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and rotifers.
Earthworms breathe by coating themselves with mucus, which allows dissolved oxygen to pass into their bloodstream, so living conditions must be moist and humid, or else the worms will dry up. They are ecologically important because they loosen and mix up the soil, enabling water and nutrients to seep through to plant roots. Since they can’t walk, earthworms move with tiny bristles, or setae, which are paired on each of their segments and grip onto the worms’ tunnel walls. Then the worms push themselves forward with strong muscular contractions.
By studying the anatomy of a sheep’s heart, children learned about how our own heart pumps blood through your body and keeps us alive.
The experience of dissecting real animal material adds an extra dimension to understanding the structure of the heart and the relationship of structure to function.
The activity allowed the children to investigate and explore the texture and thickness of the vessel and chamber walls, and the movement of the different kind of valves.
Using handouts with pictures/diagrams the children could also see what was going on with the heart in different stages of the dissection.