It has been years since we did any Five in a row activity. you have to do activities on literature, art, math, science and social
studies one per day. This is called rowing
a story. Recently, we read ‘The Milk Moustache’ and it has become one of the favorite
books of my little one. It’s a very simple story by Chef.Vikas khanna. Children of a village refuse to drink milk,
and it upsets a cow named Kali. Jassi,
the local milk man’s daughter, and Kali’s best friend found a way to end this
strike and made Kali happy again.
Math
We buy milk from the milk man who comes around 7AM. I asked my little one to watch his measuring
cups, and how he measures with the three cups 500ml, 200ml and 100ml. Then, we had a puzzle session like,
How will he measure 300ml?
200ml+100ml
How will he measure 700ml?
500ml+200ml
How about 1l?
2 cups of 500ml
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Let us assume that he has only two cups- the 500ml cup and the 200ml cup, how will he
measure 300ml?
200ml+ ½ of it (I was expecting the grownup’s
answer like 500ml – 200ml. :D)
She likes these puzzles very much and started asking her dad
similar questions.
Language Work
The author introduces the characters as Kali the cow, Rang
the butterfly and Sur the nightingale, and it helped us to learn about common
nouns and proper nouns. My little one
learnt that the proper nouns should be capitalized, and the common nouns are
generally preceded by the article or article+adjective. We arranged this using the story characters and few cartoon characters.
Art
My little one drew this cow.
Science
My little one loves paneer.
So, we made some paneer (richotta cheese), and I told her the science
behind the curdling process. She learnt that the protein in milk called casein curdles
when the lemon juice is added in the hot boiling milk.
Social Studies
I told her about Mr. Verghese Kurien the father of the white
revolution (1970) in India.
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