Rainbow Pancakes for Snack

                             

Today the children made their own pancakes.  

Layering colours from the rainbow one on top of the other.

 Red,

yellow, orange,

green, blue

and purple.

I was concerned about the children spooning the batter into the pan

and touching the hot sides.

So I draped a small cloth over the area

and we had no burns.

For most children this was the first time to use a flipper.

Almost all gone except for the red.

So they made some red pancakes.

A finished rainbow.  

It was big so we cut it in half to share with his sister.

"Tasty" was a word I heard to describe the pancake.

They were like works of art.

Another Celery Dyeing Experiment

Last week I shared our colour experiment using Skittle candies.

It didn't work as well as I had hoped so we cleaned out the Skittle jars

and refilled each jar with coloured water.

Within a day colour had seeped up into the celery.

blue

purple

red

green

Yellow was the only colour that either didn't work 

or we just couldn't see it because of the colour of the leaves.

An extension we did was to take one romaine lettuce leaf,

split it in half, part way up

then insert each half into it's own jar of colour.

Above is yellow and red,

and this one is blue and red.

Within an hour the colour was working it's way up the stalk.

The next morning the red and yellow was very noticeable up the leaf.

It was surprising that we could really notice the yellow in the leaf

when we couldn't see it in the celery in our earlier experiment.

Unfortunately the other leaf had wilted and didn't work.

We may re-do it with a new fresher leaf.

Crafting with our Buddies

Last week we got together with our grade 5 big buddies and made a craft.

We made bumble bees.

I found the idea at Housing a Forest.

 We used pre-cut cardboard ovals, yellow and black yarn, tongue depressors,

and googly eyes (glue needed to attach them).

Each big buddy had made their own bee earlier in their own classroom.

First they wound the yellow and black yarn around the oval.

 
As I looked around the gym I saw many buddy pairs working together.  Big buddies guiding their little buddies, letting them try to make their bee.

 Here are a few of our Buddy Bees.

Discovering Slinkies

Do you remember the toy called Slinky?

I do and I remember playing with them, 

trying to figure out how they work, 

for hours.

I found two rainbow coloured slinkies at a thrift store and 

added them to our discovery play.

 

 

 

 

Some toys are so worth their value.