Monday, July 7, 2008

Home Exploration Topic: Lifecycle of a butterfly

While educators acknowledge that books and videos [e.g. youtube] play a useful role in teaching science, most would agree that hands-on experiments and close observation is probably the best way to teach it.

Mummy and Daddy thus strive to engage them in activities, in which they develop knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas.

A good way is to involve as many senses as possible.

In getting a real caterpillar, she can smell the leaves it eat, touch its delicate skin, see it chewing, and hear the sounds of the leaves.

~ Our little caterpillar the day we brought it home ~

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