Dear Parents
The Edgerley children are to be congratulated on how well they
have adjusted to their new environment and settled in to the 4 year old room
and routines. The transition seems to have been smooth and they are
enthusiastically taking on the new challenges.
The children's interest in exploring colour has remained
strong in our room this week. The children have been mixing colours and
creating myriads of wonderful new colours with great excitement. They have
done this using paint and also play dough as a medium. Beginning with
white play dough as a base, the children then added coloured dye and
created new coloured play dough. They then mixed those various colours together
to make even more colours! On Monday our Edgerley
scientists took part in a science experiment using milk,
dishwashing liquid and coloured dye. The combinations gave some spectacular
results and created moving colour combinations. They predicted what colours
would be made and learnt which primary colours are needed to create other
secondary colours.
Here are some of our discoveries:
Yellow and blue makes green, and then I added red and it makes
brown - Angus
I did red first and then blue and it made purple - Lexie
I put red on the paper and yellow and made brown - Caterina
I used 3 colours - blue, red and yellow - and it made black - Zara
Blue and yellow makes green! - Hamish
The children have been watering the seeds we are growing in the
classroom and they have observed some changes.
It's got lots of roots coming out of there - Struan
That one's got a little sticking up seed - Rory
The seeds are making the plants grow up - Charlie O
It looks like a beanstalk. They growed longer - Sebastien
We have had some discussions about what plants need to grow
and came up with a list - water, dirt, soil, seeds and Rory added that
plants need sun to grow. There was some confusion about how our plants would
manage to grow inside the classroom as there is no sun in our room. Struan and
Aston came up with some suggestions.
The lights are doing it - Struan
The lights are just like the sun - Aston
Best wishes,
Emma, Mel and Cristina
