Day started playing with Ice!

Day started playing with Ice!

Y’day Ash put a cake mould filled with water and different colour flowers in freezer. This activity is their favourite and they enjoy watching melting of ice while playing.

Then Megh want to make his ice and he filled water in a small vessel and put it in freezer but very impatient about freezing. He want it in few minutes and it is about to take more than hour. Could not wait and asking frequently…when will be ice ready? I know it was useless to say him but I answered “when water will reach at 0 degree”, now Ashna wanted to know it how? And what is degree? Shown her how tempreture measures with thermometer and then measured different temp. of water. Raising and falling of mercury was interesting for her.

Nikhil noticed Ash’s question what is degree left unanswered…explained her use of degree in measurement of temp. and angle. And shown her how angle measures. When she came to know about angle measurement of circle she relate it with watch and then some exercises about angles between two hands at different time.

At noon,during study time we read “Gavri gay no hinchko” a Rusian children story translation …about how Gavri is different from other cows and how she takes help of her friend Kagabhai for hanging swing on tree. All left pages read by me and all right by her. She was not worried by reading whole book herself, modeling myself for reading style,good practice for her and this is our favorite story. It was fun!

Then reminded her how we got 30 degree angle between any two no. on watch by dividing 90 into 3 parts. That was explained by 9 chocolates have to divide in Ash,Megh and Manu. When she came to know it is division,her eyes open wide and said “ohhho I thought it was like subtraction!” She knows multiplication but still does calculation by adding no….like if have to buy 4 pencil each Rs. 3 then instead multiply 4*3 she adds 4 three times. So,in her mind multiplication is like addition…so division might be like subtraction…like instead adding 4 three times..she has to minus or something like that unclear concept was there. Then explain her relation between addition & multiplication and what’s common. Same with subtraction & division.

At last in study time – a shopping sum…her favourite! She has to buy 1 KG Washing Powder,3 Bath soap and a packet of Chapta Chana and She has Rs. 200. At shop washing powder available in 500gm bag and 80 Rs. Each, soap Rs. 14 each and Chana packet Rs.22. Bit difficult for her…but she tried ,took enough time and got total bill of Rs. 224 then? What we have to remove from list? She was confused. Tried removing Chana Packet but no help, removed all soaps…..but soap is urgently needed at home…then at last remove 1 bag of washing powder and one more subtraction.

Study time over!