ALASKA ACADEMY: WHEN MERCURY BLOCK LITTLE ONES EXPLORE THE WORLD OF “MATTER”

During an exciting day in the LAB room, the little ones of Class Mercury A1 joined their teachers on a journey to discover a fascinating scientific concept: Matter and its 3 magical states all around us:

SOLID: Objects with a fixed shape, solid structure, and can be held (such as tables, chairs, toys, magnifying glasses…).

LIQUID: Substances with “flowy” characteristics, whose shapes change flexibly according to the shape of their containers (such as water, milk, laundry gel…).

GAS: Our “invisible” friends that, although hard to see with the naked eye, are always present around us (such as air to breathe, rising water vapor…).

While listening to the teachers’ explanations, the children also got to directly observe and touch balloons, water, milk, and laundry gel. The Alaskids were incredibly thrilled to realize that although everything is matter, each “friend” possesses its own unique characteristics: Solid — Flowy — Or hidden.

Therefore, the teacher’s challenge to “classify familiar objects and phenomena” into the 3 states of matter (SOLID – LIQUID – GAS) could no longer trouble the smart little ones of Class Mercury A1!

Notably, through interactive activities and direct Q&A in English with our foreign teachers, the little ones confidently “pocketed” plenty of new vocabulary and learned how to use adjectives to describe the properties of objects in a delightfully cute way: “The toy is hard”, “Milk is flowy”…