Electrical Conductivity of Materials

This week we did a simple experiment to check few materials whether they are conductors or insulators.  We used the following circuit and a number of different materials like Copper string, Aluminium foil, graphite(Pencil lead), Popsicle stick, paper, plastic pen, and a piece of cloth.

Instead of using wires, we constructed a simple paper circuit using aluminium tape. You can even use aluminium foil. It is really simple and your child can construct their own circuit next time, if they experience it once. I showed her how to form a hypothesis and test it. 

My daughter placed different materials in the gap to make it a closed circuit and see whether the LED light up. She also noted her observation in the worksheet.

This experiment piqued my child’s curiosity. So, we are going to do a lot of paper circuits in the coming week and I will post it.

Teaching Sentence Writing

I would like to share some of our activities that I did initially to encourage my little one to write sentences.

Silly sentences

        Being an ESL, we started with simple sentences.  I kept three bowls for noun, verb, and adverbs. Initially, I used only the adverbs of time to check whether she can make sentences in all tenses.  She has to take cards from each bowl and make sentences accordingly.  This activity is really funny and my daughter loves it.

Picture cards

                   I keep picture cards in a bowl and my daughter has to take picture cards from the bowl and constructs sentences. She used to write at least five sentences per day in her writing notebook.

Punctuation

  For practicing punctuation, I used ‘Edit a sentence’ – a daily activity suggested by Montessori for everyone. I write sentences without punctuation and incorrect capitalization, my daughter has to correct it.  Sometimes I write dialogues from her favorite books. She loves to find which book it is from.