Am I becoming a colour bore? I feel we have been looking at colour for a long time now. However the children continue to be really engaged and invested in their learning.

As planned, I offered the same experience, well the same resources again today. Of course it isn’t the same experience as now the children have their previous learning to draw on and develop. And me being me I had to add a twist. I added  a mystery mixture in test tubes and a squirty bottle.

There was some debate over what the mystery mixture was.

“Is it vinegar?” – Patrick

“It’s water!” – Gabriel

“It’s nothing colour” – Heidi

It had a strange effect – it chased the colour away intead of mixing it.

“I’m chasing all the colours away!” – Heidi

“You’re chasing them all the way to America!” – Charlie

And it had a weird effect on the paper – it turned it see through too!

“It’s invisible colour!” – Charlie

And the oddest thing was what it did to the colours when you put them in the test tubes to mix……

“Gravity is what makes the colours go down!” – Caoimhe

Can you guess the mystery liquid? It was very slimy…

“Maybe it’s jellyfish” – Patrick.

“No they might sting us!!” – Alex

No fear it wasn’t jellyfish but just baby oil.

Oil and water won’t mix so our colours wouldn’t mix with the oil.

Well now we have begun to think about colours separating I think the time has come to chase rainbows….

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