Dear
Mead Room families and friends,
The
Mead Room friends have had another action packed week of inquiry.
We
revisited our ‘Recycling’ investigation, we recalled the ‘3 arrows’ symbol and
the children shared their understandings of what it means –
William R – ‘We
know that something can be recycled if it has the ‘3 arrows.’
Cooper – You don’t throw it
away you make it into something else.
Oliwer – ‘If it goes in the
water it will be yuk for the fish.’
We
looked at some plastic that we thought would just go in the bin, that we
thought could not be recycled, but we found the ‘3 arrows’……….
More
investigation is required!
We
continued our ‘Water’ investigation with the Chapple Room.
Mr
Charlwood put something in a plastic
container and shielded it from view. We
obviously couldn’t see it, but we could feel it, and hear it when he moved the
container. We tried to decipher what it
was;
William R –
‘Its wet.’
Oliwer – ‘Its water.’
Alana – ‘Ice?’
Mr
Charlwood was keen to uncover some more facts behind this reasoning, more hands
on investigation was required;
Abigail (from Chapple) – ‘It
feels hard.’
Mr Charlwood – ‘Is water hard?’
A
resounding ‘NO!’ from the masses!
Abigail – ‘It feels bumpy, and
my hand is cold.’
Paige – ‘Its melting, its
ice, its melting.’
Cooper – ‘Ice is made out of
water.’
Ned (Chapple) – ‘If you put it in
the sun it will melt.’
Maxime (Chapple) – ‘I think
it will melt faster in the sun – its warmer.’
It was
Ice! And we continued our investigation with an ice melting festival in the
beautiful Spring sunshine. Mr Charlwood
added to the inquiry by sprinkling salt on one pile of ice……. It melted faster
than the ice left alone!
The
Mead Room friends were excited to delve into our own experiments, we filled
rubber gloves with water…. what could we
do with them?
Haris – ‘You put it in the
freezer, then it turns to ice.’
Will it take a long time to freeze or a
short time?
The
consensus was that it would take the gloves of water a long time to freeze, so
we trooped off to the freezer and carefully placed our gloves inside. The
children were right…… we waited for a considerable length of time. We were still waiting quite some time
later. Melting experimentation will just
have to wait!
We
have engaged in independent discovery, Sienna organised her own Sinking and Floating investigation. And
we explored new literacy and light table resources in beautiful collaborative
exploration!
Happy
Birthday to Flynn who turns 4 on Sunday!
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Enjoy
your weekend!
From
Melissa, Elodie and Sharon
