The children worked with Mrs Mack this morning to discover what happens when a gingerbread person is added to vinegar, water, milk and washing up liquid. The children made simple predictions, analysed, interpreted and evaluated their findings.

Some of the children’s quotes: “It’s science,” “He’s turning into a milkman,” “It’s softer, it’s getting soft,” “This one is starting to sink, he is getting softer,” “Mine is soft now too…it drowned,” “Changing different colours, because they are wet,” “I think they will turn soft…the one in the soap has sunk to the bottom,” “Squishy because they are in wet things,” “He has got a crack, that means he is breaking,” “This one is stuck, the soap makes it stick” and “My water is turning white.”

Mrs Gray