Bees Wax Wraps
Yah ... today we made Bees Wax Wraps.

Why?
As part of our Inquiry we are looking at 'making a change' to the litter around our school and the environment. The wraps, which keeps our food fresh, are reusable so that we are not using plastic wrap.

How?
We melted bees wax pellets so they changed from a solid to a liquid, then added canola oil. We brushed the mixture on our material. Next we put it in the oven for 10 minutes so that the wax soaked through the material.

Check out the photos of Room 13 and 14 making the wraps.

We cant wait to see all the wraps in lunchboxes next week.

Helping to make a CHANGE.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Yesterday we had some amazing helpers from Room 20 (Year 3 & 4), who worked alongside us to make some reusable bags out of old t-shirts as part of our Inquiry. We are working on 'making a change' to the plastic problem around our school and the environment. These bags are for us to use again and again and again so that we don't need to use a single-use plastic bag. We know that the plastic ones take many, many, many years to break down (if they ever do!) and can hurt sea life and other animals. It also means the old t-shirts don't end up as rubbish.
There was no sewing involved - see if you can work out how they were made (or ask the Room 13 children to explain).

Inquiry
Last week we the activities around change all seemed to involve heat as the factor of change.
Today we looked at ice.
We observed ice and then conducted an experiment on the ice.
We mixed dye and salt then dripped it onto the ice. The salt cause the ice to 'melt' showing tunnels as the dye moved through the dye.
We could see the colours and noticed how the ice changed.

 

Here is a sample of the writing from our ice experiment.


Today we put dye in ice. 
It was colourful because we put salt in the dye and squirted it on the ice and the dye went into the ice. 
The salt was digging into the ice. It was really colourful.

By Charlie


Guess what? Today we talked about ice. 
When you put dye and salt on ice it will melt the ice. Then it will crack. 
When you touch ice your hands will freeze like ice. Salt actually can melt ice. Dye and salt also can melt ice. Ice can burn your hands. Your hand will stick to the ice.

By Will


In the experiment that we just did, we had some ice and dye. When we put the salt in the dye, the salt floated around. When we stirred the dye the salt dissolved. 
When we put it on the ice, the ice changed to rainbow. Then when we put so much salt in the red dye and we put some of the dye on the ice, it started to look like tomato sauce and blood.
We observed that when we put some salt on, it started to make holes and tunnels in the ice and it melted the ice.

By Ashley


I saw some holes and cracks on the ice. It felt cold. 
The brown dye was like cocoa cola. I liked the colour. 
The red dye and the salt looked like tomato sauce. 
We squeezed the dye and sprinkled the salt on the ice. It was amazing because the salt was eating into the ice.

By Petal

Guess what? We did an experiment today about ice. 
My favourite part was when Mrs Hinman dye and salt together. Then she mixed it. After, she put the dye on the ice. 
It looked really cool. The ice looked colourful! The salt melted the ice. It made tunnels, cracks and holes.

By Rynie

Today we did an experiment about dye and ice and salt. It was pretty amazing when we squirted the mixture on the ice!
The dye made tunnels!

By Mackenzie


Guess what? Today we talked about ice. 
It changed from a cold solid to a liquid. 
We put some salt into the dye and I felt excited! The dye made the ice melt! The ice had some holes. The dye was in the ice. It looked like a rainbow!

By April

Inquiry
This week we had such fun being scientists and observing the changes that have happened when we made bread and popcorn.
We have been learning to use our 5 senses when we notice or observe what is happening.
We are also learning how to ask questions. We can now tell the difference between a question and a statement (or comment). A question is when we ask something and a statement is when we tell something.

Below are the photos taken during our experiences.

We red the story The Little Red Hen and discussed all the changes she made as she made bread.

Looking at the Bread maker.

The water and salt go in.

Flour

Measuring

Mixing

Yum - the end result.

We all agreed that it was tasty.

Alex carefully observing his piece of bread.

Popcorn

The corn kernels were hard, yellow and small.

When is was put in the popcorn maker it heated up and ...
pop.

The kernels changed to white, fluffy and bigger.

It tasted pretty good too - even if it gets stuck in you teeth.