Recommended for 3rd graders! A collection of easy self-study ideas you can try

Haiku to remember

Haiku Elementary School Students Should Remember

Let’s learn through animation! Here are some haiku ideas you’ll want to remember.

Haiku has a rich history, and it’s well known that in the Edo period the three great masters of haikai—Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō, and Yosa Buson—composed remarkable verses.

This time, let’s learn seasonal words (kigo) from famous haiku.

Memorizing well-known haiku will help you discover the types of kigo and how to use them.

In recent years, haiku karuta (card sets) have also been available, so they’re great for anyone who wants to memorize while having fun!

Let’s make a super ball

Simple Craft: Let's Make a Super Ball! #MakeASuperBall #ElementarySchoolExperiment #shorts

Did you know you can make a super ball yourself? You’ll need PVA laundry glue, salt, and food coloring or paint.

First, dissolve 40 g of salt in water and add color, then pour the saltwater into the glue and stir with a chopstick.

You’ll see a gooey mass start to form around the chopstick.

Gather it up and blot the moisture with a paper towel, and you’ll have an easy homemade super ball.

Depending on the batch, some bounce very well and others less so, but try adding your favorite colors and make all kinds of super balls!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Chatty Haiku

[Chattering Haiku] Episode 5! This time, too, we’ve got lots of adorable children’s haiku!

Learn with a teacher who is both a haiku poet and an essayist! Let me introduce some ideas for “chatty haiku.” When people hear “haiku,” some may find it intimidating, but calling it “chatty haiku” might make it feel more approachable, don’t you think? In the video, you’ll find haiku that use words a two-year-old might say to their caregiver, as well as haiku that capture the honest feelings of lower-elementary school children.

The unique ideas that make you smile are utterly charming!

Let’s look into old textbooks.

Old textbook, published in 1952 (Showa 27).

The textbook we use in our regular classes has undergone multiple revisions to reach its current form.

Let’s research the pre-revision version of the textbook, or even older editions, and explore the differences.

A smooth way to start is by checking whether older textbooks are available at libraries or local history archives.

Ice Experiment

Freeze the yogurt with liquid nitrogen.

Let’s try freezing various liquids found at home—for example, water, soy sauce, detergent, and shampoo.

Put liquids that seem likely to freeze into containers of the same shape and freeze them.

Since different liquids take different amounts of time to turn to ice, observe and record them every 5 minutes.

Once a liquid solidifies and becomes ice, weigh it and investigate which ice melts the fastest.

Survey of familiar invasive species

When I surveyed waterways with Kaneko, they were full of invasive species. [155th video]

There are cases where wild animals and plants we’ve been familiar with since childhood actually came from overseas long ago and took root here.

How about researching such nearby non-native species? It would also be good to look into what kind of impact they have had.

Let’s investigate delicious/tasty water

Independent Research Helper Kit: Let's Investigate Delicious/Good-Tasting Water – Gakken

In Japan, delicious natural spring water can be found all over the country.

There are kits available from various sources that let you test the taste and pH of such water.

How about a science project where you use these kits to check and compare the taste and pH of Japan’s natural spring water and bottled water? It might also be interesting to investigate the relationship between similar-tasting waters and the terrain where they spring up.

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Saitō Ayumu

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