This
week the Mead room has continued to explore their interest in volcanoes by
making real erupting ones! We used our papier-mache volcano we made last week,
put a bowl with bi-carb soda in the crater, and poured vinegar with red food
colouring into the bowl to create the lava. As soon as the two ingredients
mixed together, the red lava bubbled up and over the edge and poured all the
way down our volcano. The children were delighted at the sight and we repeated
the experiment several times throughout the week!
Children
who attended Thursday were very lucky as we had a fire engine visit our ELC. We
started the visit outside where fire fighter Frank explained all the different
parts of the fire truck. We then moved inside where fire fighter Kelly spoke to
the children about fire safety. Children described safe and unsafe fires:
Angus
– They are very dangerous (talking about matches)
Tom –
camp fire
Alexander-
birthday candles
Tom –
bush fire
Alexander-
fire in a tree
All
the children knew to ring 0-0-0 in an emergency. Kelly also taught us that if
there was ever a fire in our house we need to “get down low and go, go, go” and
if our clothes are on fire, we need to “stop, cover our face, drop and roll”.
Fire
fighters Craig and Toby then showed us their uniform and explained how it
protects them in a fire.
James
– a helmet
Dougal-
how do you turn the torch on?
Finally,
on Friday the ELC had dress up day. We had lots of wonderful different
characters in the Mead room. We had fire fighters, pirates, a pilot, a turtle,
a fairy, a builder, a racing car driver and even a dragon! Everyone looked
fabulous!
Have
a great weekend
Miss
Amelia and Miss Sarah
