UNDER THE SEA

As you know we're investigating water.  We decided to start with the Sea...

The hedgehogs´ classes have slowly turned into an underwater life museum, and in the English class we did the same.

First we started of by learning some new vocabulary, related to sea animals. And we had a great time playing games and learning those new words.

Then one day we decided we wanted to know what colour water is.

First each child said what colour they thought it was, and we wrote it down, making a list.

After talking about their ideas about the colour of water, we got down to experimenting:

We had five cups of water, and then in each one we put a drop of paint, a bit of stirring and... MAGIC ...it changed colour!!

We left one of the cups without any paint, and the water had no colour at all. So we all learnt that water hasn’t got any colours, but we can make it have lots of different colours if we want to.

But then one hedgehog asked how come the sea is blue or green? We all tried to answer that very clever question. In the end we found out that water sometimes has the colour of the thing it’s reflecting. So we discovered another fun fact about water: it sometimes acts like a mirror.

Another day we  got lucky: Natalie told us the story of the Rainbow Fish, we liked it so much that we decided to get our hands dirty and paint some beautiful fish, that would be as pretty as the Rainbow fish, to decorate our class.

Little by little our class is looking more and more like the sea.