As part of our topic on Winter, Primary 1 have been investigating ice. We talked about how water froze to make ice and how it could melt. There has been ice in the water tray and some of the children have helped to make ice in the class.

Today each group got an ice cube with a figure trapped inside. They had to come up with ideas to help them escape. We had various ideas including; cook it, smash it, play with it or run it under the warm tap.

Each group chose a different way and we timed how long it took to rescue the person. The warm tap was the fastest followed by smashing, cooking and playing with.

We went on to write about how the man might have been frozen to begin with. The children had some fantastic ideas from an ice breathing dragon to falling into the deep freeze!