This week the children have been reading The Smeds and The Smoos. They decided to  make a batch of blue playdough, a batch of red playdough and then got creative with some loose parts, making their very own Smeds and Smoos. Some of the children even made some of their own aliens “mine’s called wiggly tickly wiggly” AY

“RAAAAAR its a scary one” KN 

“It’s horshey, look at the sticking out eyes!” ZA

Later the  children noticed that as the playdough mixed together they made purple playdough! Just like the Smed Smoo baby in the story. Soon we had a whole family of Smeds, Smoos and Smedsmoos! 

We then decided to make pink milk like the Smeds drink in the story. We made gloopy pink milk and had a Smeds tea party. 

“It’s all stiff now feel it!” AC 

“It’s sticky, if it was in your mouth it would be so yuck!”

“We need to make it stickier…we need to add more flour!”

“It looks like medicine” YK

“Glom pom ice cream is yucky for us but yummy for them”  AK

“I am making a baby, it turns purple cause Bill and Janet are blue and red and make a purple baby”  AM

“A Smed is red and a Smoo is blue” FM

“You need to add more water because it is not sticky yet” AC

“They didn’t give the baby a name. Smed rhymes with red and blue rhymes with Smoo” GM

“Bill is blue and he needs a red tongue” BH

“I am making a blue Smoo” LS

In the creative area we have been exploring colours through colour mixing. We have been exploring primary colours and mixing them to make a variety of shades. We have also been creating our own paint by crushing chalk, mixing the chalk colours and adding water. The children have been enjoying the process of this. 

In the water we have been exploring the senses of smell, sound and sight. We have been adding various food elements and the children have been using descriptive language to describe what the smell, see and hear. We have made fizzy oranges, orange and nectarine water and, mint and cucumber water, made perfumes from different herbs and essences.

“Its melting in the bubbles.”

“Its fizzy.”

“I can hear it bubbling.”

“I’m making orange juice specially for you.”

“It smells nice”

“We have to crush it so its not lumpy paint.”

“It’s changing to paint, I can see it.”

“If I put blue and red together it turns purple.

“It smells nice.”

Outdoors the children have been continuing their interest in exploring forces. Last week we used balls and created ramps and tunnels to observe speed and direction. This week we created a zip line to further investigate motion and direction, observing how gravity works to pull objects down. We were also discussing how the weight of the object changed the speed with the children making predictions as to who would be the fastest.

“Mine would win the race” ZB

“This is faster” AA
“Mine got stuck maybe it’s too heavy” AP

This week in the literacy area the children have been continuing to explore stories. We have had a special “spark” around the wonderful story ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’. The children have been talking about their likes and dislikes of different stories as well as creating their own special stories. The children have also been continuing to create fact files, learning about different animals and then writing down some of the wonderful facts they have found researching on our ipads and within non fiction books!