Another busy week in the Chapple Room.
The children on Friday carried on with our
work on comparison and read the story of the Three Bears. They then re-enacted
the story.
Shrove Tuesday was a great success. We got to
make pancakes together, sing a pancake song and then get to eat them. William
painted a creative picture of a pancake with legs which led to the telling of
the story of the pancake man who ran as fast as he could away from the old
woman and her family. Unfortunately, the boastful pancake met his end after he
was outsmarted by a crocodile.
Our experiment with plants growing without
soil, produced surprising results. They grew, and very quickly! We worked on
our observational drawing of the seedlings, trying to reproduce what we could
actually see.
Dancify proved to be a hit as the children
learnt some modern moves to the classic “September.”
This week’s water experiment tried to fool the
children with some “fossils." The children used their powers of deduction
to work out the “insects” were really in ice. They remembered that if we put
ice in the sun it would melt. Lucius came up with the idea that we could use
hot water to melt the ice more quickly. We decided to test his hypothesis and
it worked. We also discovered, as a result, that ice floats and when the ice
melted the insects sank to the bottom. Sounds like the beginnings of another
experiment.
Martin
Charlwood
