Dear Mead Room families and friends,
What
an interesting week we have had!
This
week we have put our scientific expertise to good use by investigating light.
Last
week James noticed when we lit a candle that it “makes light”. When we asked
James what else made light he replied; “the sun.”
So we
are off and running with our inquiry!
For
the past few days we have been brainstorming other things that make light –
Sienna – a torch
Danica – a light
Samuel – the moon
Flynn – the stars
Cooper – car lights
We made
the Mead Room as dark as we could and lit our candle again.
We
noticed that if you put something between the light and a surface the light
can’t get through ……. “that’s a shadow!” Sienna.
We
investigated again with the torch – same thing!
Then
we explored the overhead projector! And
found that our body was a great way of creating shadows. We observed that the light could not go
through us and that’s what makes our outline on the wall. We discovered a word - opaque
and that means that light really can’t
go through. Wow!
The
Mead Room children are fantastic scientists we tested our theories, we tried to be tricky and placed different
items on the overhead projector – but each time the children easily identified
what the object was by its shadow!
We
will keep you posted!!!
Have a
great weekend.
Melissa
and Elodie.
