Pre-bell fun with Mrs Ah Chan!

On a soggy wet Friday what's a 5 year old to do before the bell!?  Well for the very fortunate A3, Mrs Ah Chan taught a few of us how to do some origami.  We were captivated by your talent Mrs Ah Chan :)

 

FireWise

Last Friday, we got some super fun visitors.  Firemen from our local fire stations came to check up on our FireWise knowledge.  They thought we had really learnt our stuff.  

If you know how to be FireWise tell us by making a comment at the bottom of this post!

We can answer the firefighters questions.

Get down, Get low, Get out FAST!

We walk calmly away from the 'fire'.

Check out what is in one side of the fire engine!

Check out what is on the other side of the fire engine!

There are all kinds of things in a fire engine. We thought the tools they have are pretty cool!

The best bit was getting to go INSIDE the fire engine!

Oooh, lots of buttons!

I wonder how many school children you could fit in a fire engine?

 

Little Scientists

Jolly Jumping Jelly Beans, what makes POPCORN pop?

If you read yesterday's post you will have a clue that the second of our two sounds we are learning about this week is 'p'.  We know that popcorn has that sound twice and that we love to eat it, but what we didn't know was:  What makes popcorn pop?

After some research via Suzy's World and our own experiment.  Here's what two of our super scientists had to say in their own words...

"The hot takes the cover off the popcorn.  When the cover comes off, the popcorn comes out."  Jonny

"After popcorn has popped, the inside is on the outside and the outside is on the inside.  It's inside out!  Luque

We also found out you can't use any old corn.  It needs to be corn specially grown for popping.

Here is the corn heating up and starting to pop...

Pop, pop, pop!...

Tasting the popcorn (for experimental purposes only, of course)

Our big book this week is called Jolly Jumping Jellybeans and the first sound we learnt about this week was 'j' (how convenient).  While we ate our popcorn we watched a 'movie' on how jelly beans are made.  We learnt that jelly beans are made up of two parts.  We sucked on our jelly beans of all different colours and flavours (again, only for experimental purposes, of course), and discovered what was inside was the same no matter what flavour.  Inside, all jelly beans look like this...