Learning to Care

As we conclude our learning journey on the transformation of the butterflies, we choose to carry on with a very significant value - learning to care. We have learned during our learning experiences to care for our baby caterpillars' growing moment until all of them emerge as butterflies. During our physical movement we attempt to maintain our balance engaging our core strength to reach a steady body position.

Continuing our valuable learning of being passionate, through our caring hearts toward  environment, we bring in a storybook Change Is in the Air by Debbie Levy. Through explorations of the awesome powers of kelp, mangroves, and soil in the carbon cycle, and the powers of us to change our behaviors, protect our ecosystems, and improve lives through science, this insightful literature offers an honest but also hopeful view of the issues we are currently experiencing.

We figure out more thoughts and actions are required from us in caring for our environment. The situation of our Earth, in regard to the climate, is changing. We understand from the storybook that one of the many reasons is too much carbon in the air. The storybook informs us that although the Earth has amazing powers to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the Earth has another important power: the power of people!

Responding to this invitation, we let our thinking power to offer a fresh and hopeful perspective.
We can use bicycles to go to places - Vivaan
Sometimes I use scooters - Nora
Or walking - Brooks.
Nora adds that my mom walks and takes the bus. Being an active thinker, Nora thinks about informing her Dad to start considering ‘no car day’.

​Vivaan is wondering why some people never take the bus. We also encourage ourselves to keep on thinking on our possible little changes.

When asked if we take care of our houses, we, unhesitatingly, take pride in sharing our big Yes!  Lukah mentions that we take care of the Earth because people live here. This sharing further prompts us of an idea to treat our Earth as how we take care of our houses. In line with the part of the above storybook which ends with a call to action: For the Earth to keep helping us, we must help the Earth.

Introducing an idea of carbon can be pretty abstract. Interacting with the concept requires us a concrete way. So we can sensitively approach this awareness with our perspective to working together toward a resolution.

This time we refer to a scientific approach to create carbon dioxide using our everyday items. It's just a mixture of baking soda and vinegar. By mixing vinegar and bicarbonate soda together produces carbon dioxide. This suffocates the flame and it goes out. In this science experiment, we manage to observe on how the flame going to react to the release of the carbon.

Kindest,
Children & Friends.