will we know when the water is hot?
“You can see the steam.”
“It’s moving about.”
“It’s all steamy and bubbly.”
“You can see the noodles pop up. The water tries to pop them up.”
“You can hear it sizzle.”
Where do noodles come from?
“A noodle farm?”
“Cookers in China make them – get some rice and glue and stick them together… It might be like the rice – the water melted inside.”
“They’re made of special plastic that you can eat.”
“They’re made out of hundreds of things mixed up and they make it into a noodle shape.”
We drained the noodles in a colander.
“The noodles are too big to go through the holes. The water is little. Drops of water are little.”
What’s different now?
It looked like a nest – now it looks like string.”
The children remembered the sauce we had made last week – we needed ginger and soy sauce.
“Ginger is a root. Carrots grow in the ground. I think it’s basically a root.”
“It’s got juice!”
“Maybe there’s tiny holes in the ginger we can’t see s the water goes in.”
“From the flood or the rain.”
“I can taste a bit of hotness.” (ginger)
“I love it!”
“It’s way better than home noodles.”
“I’m gonna get chopsticks.”
“I want to learn to use chopsticks!”
Being plumbers. (Some of the children used different voices to show they were plumbers!)
"It bursted and it flooded all down there. It took us ages to pump it out.”
“This pipe is for clean water.”
“This pipe is to attach to her pipe and then it is to attach to the school.”
“We need another pipe for the dirty water. It goes from the toilet through the big pipe, through a small pipe to the dung river.”
“Our pipe is attached to their pipe and then we’ve made it even longer!”
“This pipe is for the electric power.”
“I’ve found a pipe in your sink, Mrs Watson.”
“Do you know, some people have to drink out of the river and it’s dirty and it makes them die. It’s because they’ve got no pipes.”
“I need a drink … - I pretended it was tea because plumbers drink tea!”
“Do plumbers use this (compass)?”
“They are for finding the right direction.”
“They might forget which way they wanted to point the pipe so they might need a compass.”
Investigation: how strong is spaghetti?
The children used lots of different strategies and trial and error to see what weight the spaghetti would bear.
“This doesn’t work and it’s not even heavy.”
“I think this might work.”
“It looks like you need a hand here.”
“I’m putting mine all in the same place.”
“This will be so strong.”
“I tried to push it down but it just snapped…I’m gonna try something else…It works!”
“Now let’s try something else…”
“Hmm, I wonder what else I can try…”
“I’ll add more spaghetti so it doesn’t break.”
“I’m going to get more to make it thicker. If it’s thicker, it might hold. It makes it so, so, so stronger.”
Art Attack: today a lot of the creation were inspired by the left over pieces of our concertina dragons.
“I’ve made the England flag.”
“England is a big country”
“It’s going to take 100 minutes to do this.”
“100 minutes is now until you are asleep.”
“So we’ll be making it in the dark!”
“My mummy will laugh at this – or the baby.”
“It’s a Power Ranger Air Fighter. It can transform into the Gold’s fighter aeroplane.”
“I’m going to try to make a tulip.”
“I just thought and thought. I was making a dragon and then I thought – I know! I can make a bracelet and I did!”
“I’ve made ribbons like P.E. I’ve even made a handle.”
“It’s the same height as me…Shall I put some people in? I’m gonna try!”
“It’s a dinosaur. He’s a type of diplodocus ‘cause he’s got a long neck and he needs to reach the trees.”
“I made a Power Ranger mask for my mummy.”
“I’m going to make a submarine…Does cardboard go in the bath?”
Yet another creative idea for a paper concertina!
Following our Chinese theme, we thought about rice in Cookery. Where did it come from?
“Maybe a tree?”
“Farmer’s crops? … Rice farms? The farmer grows them and puts them in shops.”
“It comes from China.”
“It’s similar to wheat.”
“It falls out of the hole in my hand.”
“It’s very noisy because it’s very hard.”
“It sounds clicky. Basically because it’s got hard bits on the end!”
“It’s a