The children were curious, probing, questioning and making discoveries. It had not been cold enough to freeze the slush in the wok so it was still ‘soup’.
They wanted to add more ‘broth’ but the cool, cloudy conditions were not conducive to producing large volumes of liquid. They searched, checking containers and valleys and anywhere else they thought water might accumulate.
Suddenly they noticed the slow drip of water from the downspout over the rain barrel and sprang into action. First they tried using the big hose to channel the water from the spout to the wok but that idea was quickly abandoned as ‘too slow’.
Instead, they decided that it would be better to place a shallow container in the small space below the downspout.
I was not optomistic — watching the slow drip I was certain it would take a long time to fill their container. A few minutes later they excitedly called me over to see the ripples that formed when the droplets landed in the container.
I was surprised that the container was nearly half full already! They thought it was funny that I had doubted their method. The next step was to get the water over to the wok.
They added the water to the soup and collected a little more before it was time to go in for snack. Instead of adding the second batch they decided to leave it beside the wok as an ‘experiment’ for tomorrow. Hmmm, what do you think might happen?
Is this what you expected?
There is still some water it the wok but there is only ice in the shallow container. They broke it up so they could add it to the soup.
Now they wanted to add some ‘air’ to the soup too — I wondered how they intended to do this. They had a plan.
Can you see the bubbles? There were a lot of them but they were hard to capture with my camera.
It was a wonderful week full of “I wonder”…”what if”… and “let’s try”. Investigating and collaborating.
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