Making iceblocks

As part of our Inquiry where we are learning about change, we made iceblocks.  We observed the sugar crystals change colour when the water was added.  The crystals dissolved into the water when stirred, and the water changed into ice when frozen.  We had great discussions about ice, and we really enjoyed eating the iceblocks afterwards.  Yum!

Jiggling Jelly!

We made the final layer of our rainbow jelly today for our Inquiry topic called 'Change'.  The colour of traffic lights.

Harry talked about how the crystals DISSOLVED into the water.

Zara used great vocabulary like JIGGLING JELLY.

Jozsef mixed together the jelly until all the colours became one and OBSERVED that the colour CHANGED from green, red and orange to just ORANGE!

We used words like "thick, mmmm, sweet, tasty, and yummy".

We can use these great words and these photos in our independent story writing next week.

Algebra - Using arrows to show relationships

We have been learning about Algebra, using arrows to show relationships between a set of objects and a number.  This activity was really helpful for helping us with our number knowledge.  We have been using tens frames and fly flips for counting and number identification.

Swimming lesson #2

Jiggling Jelly

For our 'changes' inquiry, we made rainbow jelly.

We followed the 5 step directionw on the jelly packet to change the contents from sugar crystals into thick wobbly jelly.    We used hot water to dissolve the sugar.

We are making rainbow jelly, just like traffic lights.  First we made the green jelly, then the red, and the next step is to make the orange jelly.  It takes time but it's going to taste really yummy!

Here are some photos...

Our first swimming lesson

We went to our first swimming lesson at Hilton Brown.  What great fun.

We are really looking forward to swimming again on Friday.

Here are a few photos of us at the pool.