Weekly Updates

Preschool / Spark Studio (PS) Update

New Quest Challenge: Water

The Water Quest Challenge had the PS Eagles finding ways to filter muddy water.

So tried using rice and bread to filter the muddy water into clean water.

SH receives help from his sister in the water filtration challenge.

AA and her sister puts dried leaves into their water filter and watch as it drips.

JE puts some stones, pebbles and a face mask into his water filter.

The water is still brown … what else can we use?

Art Packs

On Friday, the PS Eagles opened their blue Friday art packs and worked on the enclosed challenge.

AA drew and cut the shapes before sticking it on craft paper.

Online Etiquette

An Eagles was ‘kicked out’ from Google Meet near the end of a session. The next day, Mr Daniel, the PS Guide, told a story about himself attending a Google Meet and being kicked out on purpose. The Eagles were empathetic towards the sadness he felt over being kicked out of the Meet. In the discussion , the agreed that it is not a nice or kind act to kick anyone out of virtual meetings.

Home Challenge

This week, the PS Eagles stepped up from their usual Home Challenges to attempt new ones.

ZA – “The vacuum cleaner is too loud for me. I am going to stop using it and I will try to use it another day.”

SH – “I love prawn fried rice, so I will peel more prawns.”

Weekly Elementary Studio (ES) Update

Week 2, the Eagles were on a roll and enjoyed completing this week’s challenges. For this week, it was all about water.

The Water Cycle

For their first challenge, the Eagles researched and learned about the water cycle. During the launch, they watched a video on the importance of water and how the access/non-access to clean water can have a big impact on a person’s life.

Water Filtration

For the second challenge, the Eagles attempted the water filtration experiment. During the launch, the Eagles watched a video – ‘What would happen if you didn’t drink water’

Some Eagles responded to the video by going to get a glass of water and drinking it.

“I’ll go grab a cup of water now.”

“This video is making me wanna go drink some water.”

“Watch the video, drink a cup of water.”

The video covered what happens to your body when it’s dehydrated. This made the Eagles realise how important water is.

For their experiment, the Eagles used coffee filters, sand and gravel to create a simple water filter. Some were amazed at how different the water looked after filtering it.