What colour is black ink?

This question confused the children at first - black was the answer!  As part of our materials science topic we are mixing science and art and today we were doing chromatography.

We started with black ink and found out that black ink is not really black! 

 

Just like a scary eyeball!

 

 

Having fun at the same time as learning!

 

 

Moving on to using felt pens and making pictures.  This really did look like a dog's face!

We saved some for our display but the children were so pleased with their work we had to let them take them home!

French topic

As part of our topic on France we interviewed Joseph and Maddy's au-pair Mathilde who is French.  We had introduce ourselves in French and had prepared questions for Mathilde.

Introducing ourselves

 

 

Mathilde was a bit nervous but she soon relaxed when she realised we weren't scary!