Dem bones, screen printing, and wheat heads

We explored a science kit about bones.

We looked at x-rays, and a skeleton. We identified the names of some of the major bones in our bodies.

Here is Mr Bones, the skeleton.

We looked at the bones inside a body.

 

 

 

We assembled a skeleton.

 

 

Screenprinting

We experimented with making stencils of fish and printing them. Ms Jones cut out our fish with a scalpel. Then we laid them on paper and printed two colours over them.

Here is the fish stencil ready to print.

After first print.

The print is turned around and reprinted. It shows the earlier print in another colour.

A fish print reversed and printed twice.

Great shapes and colours.

 Mr Green-Bean, the wheat-head man.

Meet Mr Green-Bean. He has wheat hair, a sphagnum moss face, and a class of 22 children lined up beside him on the window-sill. We harvested some wheat that had grown from some wheat straw. We packed it inside stockings with moss and made the heads. The moisture has made the wheat sprout on Mr Green-Bean's head. We are now waiting for the little ones to sprout.