Woodworking & Floating Pictures!

The pre-school children had lots of fun experimenting with a letter and number floating activity. They were fascinated and watched in amazement as some fish, numbers and letters were drawn on the back of a spoon using a white board marker, then able to float once the spoon was placed in the water. Joshua called more of his friends over to see, “Guys, come and look at this super cool experiment, the pen fish can really float!”. Ezmie and William came straight over to assess what was going on. Once they come over and saw the floating fish, they were very keen to get involved and draw their own pictures to float. Some of the pictures drawn on the spoon weren’t so easy to come off so we developed the activity on to some tin foil. This time all of the children had their own piece of tinfoil to write some letters and numbers, William chose to draw his mum whilst saying, “My mummy might be able to float in some water”, which really made his friends laugh. Joshua had written a ‘J’ and Ethan an ‘E’. The children all then took turns to scoop some water on to their picture and watched eagerly, waiting for their picture to come away from the tinfoil and cheered each time the picture floated away.

The children in pre-school have been using some tools at our woodwork bench, learning to saw, hammer and screw pieces of wood for us to be able to use to make a small wooden house. Each time Isabelle and Connie have asked, “Have we got enough wood to make a house yet?” Eloise said, “It sounds just like the three little pigs story, they have a wooden house too!”. Rowan praised Eloise, “You are absolutely right, that is just like the story!”. The children all concentrated and listened to instructions extremely well when learning how to use each tool. Ari told his friends, “I’m just like my daddy now, my daddy has tools like these!”.