Dear Angwin Families and Friends
This week in Angwin we have begun to categorise and sort the
items that we have removed from our machines. It has been interesting to listen
to the technological language that the children have as part of their
vocabulary.
“I found a light” said Joe M
“I think that is called a globe actually” clarified Leon
“This string thing is called a cord” explained Scarlett
“Look, I found a battery!” exclaimed William
“There’s not a battery, there is a transformer” said Joe M
"Did you know that cogs have teeth? Not like the ones in our
mouth! Some machines have springs too, but not the spring that’s the weather!"
clarified Arwyn.
We have been amazed to see how many different parts need to
work together for a machine to do its job!
Lucille shared a book with us for
show and tell called Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. We watched
as Rosie used different parts to try and invent machines. We think we might be
able to do that too.
After discussion we also thought we might like to display
all the machine parts we have discovered. “We can put it on a cardboard and put
them altogether then that means we can have a big, big collection, we can
make patterns like art” suggested Samuel.
Keep your eyes peeled for our machine
art!
Regards
Mel, Alex, Coney, Faye and Louise
