Dear Mead Room families and friends,
What a week!
Our interest has been well and truly
sparked in terms of Recycling and ecological curiosity. Our decomposition experiment, in conjunction
with the Mattingley Room, has supported a keen interest in ‘greening’ our
planet. The children are already beginning
to make changes in the way they dispose of waste, understanding that paper and
paper products can go into our paper recycling box, which in turn goes….. somewhere……
to be made into new paper items. We will
have to work out where it all goes!
Stuart the Skeleton is still working
tirelessly to support the Mead Room’s inquiry into the skeletal system. He is poked and prodded and manhandled to
such an extent that he momentarily became an amputee, and his cranium has had
to be blu-tacked down to avoid any embarrassment!
Which
is the longest bone in the skeletal system?
Ronnie
and Harry – The femur!
…
and the smallest?
Max – its in your ear.
Our ‘Doctors Surgery’ is a hive of
activity and the children are transferring some of their skeletal system
understandings to their dramatic play scenarios.
Ginger is the patient in this scenario……
Zahli – I think your femur is broken!
Ronnie – We be the doctors, I’ll give her some
medicine water.
Cody – No that’s the injection.
Ronnie – I’ll give her an injection.
Zahli – That will fix her femur!
Ronnie – You’re all better Ginger. Who’s next?
This week we made a new batch of
playdough. We looked at the recipe, measured out the
ingredients and then we combined it all together,
added the hot water (Mrs Prest
performed that tricky manoeuvre) and then
the stirring began!! Leonardo noticed
the bowl felt warm to touch and Tom was very keen to stir up the mixture! Finally all the
ingredients were combined, we tipped it
out of the big bowl onto the table to roll it and knead it and then we used our
senses to investigate the newly made dough.
We moulded it into different shapes, feeling the mixture between our
fingers and our palms, inventing and discussing our creations:
Cody – so hot, it feels soft not hard.
Scout – hot and squishy.
Isla
B – the hot water makes
it hot.
Harry – its very hot ‘cos we just made it.
Jimmy – it feels warm.
Max – mine is soft.
Elsie – mine is soft too.
Leonardo – soft.
Alfie – mine is warm not hot.
Bill – I’m making fingerprints
Gigi – mine is so goosey.
Quinn – I’m rolling it ….. it’s getting
colder.
Rupert – mine is like a ball.
Isla
DG – porridge pie I
made!
Houyi – I put in flour and hot water.
Making play dough resulted in
discussions, and hands-on investigations incorporating science, literacy,
numeracy, and creativity!
Congratulations to Poppy on the arrival of her baby sister, Eleni Rose.
Melissa and Georgia
