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The Riroriro Whānau team thrives on clear communication, compliments and are happy to answer any questions about supporting your child while learning at home. Contact our Junior School Team directly.

RW1 Mrs Spies

jarrenlid@manurewawest.school.nz

RW2: Mrs Connal

natashac@manurewawest.school.nz

RW3&RW4: Mrs Seve & Ms Lambert

teporas@manurewawest.school.nz

jaydeanel@manurewawest.school.nz

RW5: Miss Lues

kayleighl@manurewawest.school.nz

RW6: Mrs Ioelu

salai@manurewawest.school.nz

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Click the link and connect with  your child's learning and RW6 messages on Class Dojo

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Click the link and connect with  your child's learning and RW2 messages on Class Dojo

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Click the link and connect with  your child's learning and RW3 & RW4 messages on Class Dojo.

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Click the link and connect with  your child's learning and RW5 messages on Class Dojo

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Click the link and connect with  your child's learning and RW5 messages on Class Dojo

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Log in and choose from Learning Space 1 or Learning Space 2

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Draw some interesting shapes on a piece f paper and draw and write things that share who you are.

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Explore how plants drink water using food colourig.

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This will have your children observing a simple science experiment with colour changing flowers! It is easy to set up and is a great lesson, especially for preschoolers. It helps children learn about how plants absorb water through its stem to nourish the head of the flower. This is such a classic science activity that your children will absolutely love. I loved doing it so much myself and watching the changes that seemed to happen within the hour!

It only required a few materials to set up this science experiment and inspired Possum (aged 3.5 years) to learn more about plants and how they absorb water.

Recommended age : 3 years + (Active supervision is required on all my activities)

This activity is an amazing visual for kids. It teaches them how a plant absorbs water up it's stem and nourishes its petals or leaves.

The brightly coloured water will transform the white flowers within only a few minutes.

It's amazing and creates a great 'WOW' factor for kids. To do this science activity you will need the following materials -

White flowers (chrysanthemums, roses or daisies would work well)

Small containers or jars

Water

Food colouring

I used chrysanthemums, but you might like to use whatever white flowers you have available. Obviously some flowers may not absorb water as well as others. To set up this activity I simply used a collection of small jars. I added 1/2 cup of clean water and 10 drops of food colouring to each of the jars. Red, yellow, green, blue and purple were the colours I made the water.

I didn't have purple food colouring so I needed to create it using a combination of red and blue drops. Possum loved watching how the two colours, when combined, made a completely new colour.

How to make your flowers change colour

Quite simply, I cut the stem of the flowers so there was about 6 inches of stem remaining before placing one in each of the jars.

I highly recommend ensuring there are no leaves left on the stem as it can go mouldy in the water, which will reduce the time you can keep this activity. Place your jars in a safe location that will gives them some lovely natural sunlight. We placed our on the kitchen windowsill.

Making predictions

I wanted the end result to be a surprise to Possum and so I asked her what she expected to happen to the flowers over time. Some children may benefit from drawing their predictions. It's also a great idea to do this because children can return to their initial predictions and make comparisons to the actual end result.

TA DA!

This is the result of the flowers absorbing the coloured water after one week. All of the flowers absorbed the coloured water and highlighted how it travelled all the way to the tips of the petals to nourish it. Mind blown.

But what is even more surprising is that within an hour of us starting the experiment we were able to notice some changes to the white flowers. Amazing! Every three days I snipped off a bit of the end of the stem, which kept the flower fresh and absorbing water.
I'm sure you'll agree that the results we experienced in the colour changing experiment were absolutely amazing. It did seem like we had magical colour changing flowers.

Possum loved watching the changes over the course of the week. One thing we did observe was that the flower in the purple coloured water didn't absorb quire as well as the others. Still amazing, but less vibrant in comparison.

We also observed that the flower seemed to be able to separate the two food colours. We mixed them make the purple colour initially, but you can see how they separated above. Cool, right??? These beautiful flowers, at the end of the experiment, found themselves in some fresh clear water and on display in Possums room.

Of course they were a great talking point for her and her friends that came over to visit her. This was such a wonderful science activity that I really encourage you to do with your own children. It really didn't take much to set up and the c hanges can be observed within an hour.

Your children can make predictions and record the changes by drawing what they see each day.

It's a great visual demonstration of how plants absorb water up their stem to nourish itself. I hope you enjoy this one.

Do you think your child would find this interesting?

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Science experiment with colour changing flowers - Laughing Kids Learn

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This will have your children observing a simple science experiment with colour changing flowers! It is easy to set up and is a great lesson, especially for preschoolers. It helps children learn about how plants absorb water through its stem to nourish the head of the flower.

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Use milk, food colouring and dishwash soap to make magic milk and talk about the science behind it.

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Watch the magic happen with this Colour Changing Milk Experiment by mixing milk, food colouring and dish soap.

The kids will want to do this experiment over and over again, it is just so fascinating to watch the swirling effects of colour.

What you will need?

You will need milk (near use by date), shallow dish, food colouring, cotton buds (Q-tips) and dish soap.

1. Pour some milk into the shallow dish.

2. Add approximately 5-6 drops of food colouring.

3. Prepare the liquid dish soap in a small bowl, adding a small amount of water and mix with the end of the cotton bud.

4. Place the soap soaked cotton bud into the centre of the of the milk dish.

This photo was taken just after we placed the soap soaked cotton bud into the centre of the milk. It demonstrates how the coloured food dye disperses outwards to the side of the plate.

The food colouring begins to swirl and move around the plate once the dish soap soaked cotton bud is added. It appears to work like magic and is fascinating to watch as the many shades of colours start forming, combining and also separating leaving the bright white of the milk.

Some Ideas:

Extend the learning by experimenting with different types of milk, such as soy milk, coconut milk, chocolate milk or butte milk.

Learn about mixing colours - add only red and blue food colouring to make purple, yellow and blue to make green and red and yellow to make orange. The swirling effect mixes the colours together making a new colour.

Experiment with full cream milk and skim milk. Are the results the same or are they different?

Let's Learn - What is happening?

Milk is mainly made of water and the other big ingredient is usually fat (not all milk has the same amount of fat). The dish soap bonds with the fat in the milk. This bond is so strong that the water and food colouring are pushed out. The swirling effect is everything else moving around to make room for the dish soap and fat bond.

Learning Opportunities

Language development: Using descriptive words to express ideas and opinions.

Make connections with real life experiences.

Promote scientific thinking: predictions, observations, comparison, reasoning, data gathering, experimentation and evaluation

Hand-Eye Coordination and Control

Cause and Effect

Concentration

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Watch the magic happen with this Colour Changing Milk Experiment by mixing milk, food colouring and dish soap. The kids will want to do this experiment over and over again, it is just so fascinating to watch the swirling effects of colour.

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Write a story about what would happen in your perfect day.

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Collect plastic milk and other bottle lids. Use these to write numbers on and learn about outting numbers together while having some fun.

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