In recent classes we spoke about fishes, starfish, turtles (and tortoises), Octopuses and Rays.

Please chat with your kids about these animals and about the ocean. Talk about their diets, their defense strategies, their unique behaviour or characteristics, their relationships and your opinions about these things.

If you don’t have much knowledge or opinions about these things, this is a good time to learn. Look over the conversation aids in the last few lessons and discuss.
Feel free to ask hard questions like, “Is the turtle bad for eating the octopus?”

 

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Try this science experiment over the weekend.

 

Science Exercise: Taste – Sweet
Materials, equipment
Small samples of sweet items:
A few sugar crystals (about 10)
A small dab of condensed milk (just wet the spoon with it)
One piece of a sweet cereal (like frosty flakes)
A tiny piece of jam
Smear some mustard on a spoon
Method
(Always use very small amounts of the samples – just enough to taste)
Do the same for each of: sugar, condensed milk, sweet cereal
Give your child enough to taste
Tell your child, ”This tastes sweet”
Wait about 5 seconds then go to the next sample: do the same.
After this is done;
Tell your child, “I will give you two things to taste. One of them is sweet. Can you
tell me which one is sweet?”
Then give your child one at a time. the sample of mustard and after 5 seconds the
sample of jam.
Ask the child which was sweet.

Comments
You may use any sample other than those named that is clearly sweet (eg honey, cake decoration,
etc)
Let your children answer for themselves without guidance or clues/

 

Looking forward to our parent’s meeting later.