Today we learned about fire because we wanted to know why fire was hot. We started by getting some small birthday cake candles, matches, a baking tin, a jar and some water. We stuck the candles in a baking tin with wax. Then we lit them with a large candle. We had to be very [...]
We love learning about what things are made of and today we decided to learn about glass. There’s a place near us where they make glass things and they let you watch them. We went along. Here’s a man working with glass: Glass is heated up in a furnace until it is so hot it [...]
We’ve been thinking about important things so we decided to do a project about them. It started yesterday when daddy asked people on Twitter what they thought were important things. They gave us a good list. We wanted to think about what was most important so daddy thought of a way that would help us [...]
We’ve been thinking about where food comes from so we decided to do a big food map. First we looked at the continents and drew our own. A continent is a big part of the world with lots of countries in. Our continent is Europe. We only had one atlas so Olive had to draw [...]
We’ve wanted to make things with wood for ages. We’ve never done it before so we decided to start with an easier sort of wood called Balsa. Balsa wood is very soft and light and easy to work with. We used a special saw called a Scroll Saw. It has a blade that goes up [...]
We had an email from @louisebrown asking us where bees go in the winter so we decided to learn all about bees. We like to make things so the first thing we did was make a little bee of our own. Next we started finding out about bees by looking in books and on the [...]
A few weeks ago we played with some electronics. We wrote about it here. Now we wanted to see what electronics looked like in things people use every day, so we found a computer to take apart. Here is a picture of it with an iPod and a special wrench we had to buy to [...]
We wanted to learn about how cars work so we went to a garage where they mend them. The garage had lots of old cars called MGs. Some of them were over fifty years old! The people at the garage (Mummy’s Aunty Pauline and Chris) knew that we’d come to learn so they made some [...]
We’ve been talking about families and decided to go to the library to find out about people who lived a long time ago. In the library we found a book of old pictures. We found out that you can link up all the people in your family using a family tree. We talked about who [...]