Making a chrysalis

When we came back to class after lunch one day we sat down for our story as usual.  Some of the children noticed something unusual on our swan plant.  One of our caterpillars was almost finished making its chrysalis!  Miss B quickly got the camera to try to catch some of the wriggling and jiggling as the caterpillar shed its skin and made its chrysalis.

Magnetic Force

Room 8 have been learning about Magnets.  Today we learnt that magnets have an invisible magnetic force that attracts things to them.  We wondered if the force was strong enough to work through things like paper, glass, leaves, wood and plastic.  We did some experimenting to find out.  Miss B could make a metal tie stick to her ear by putting a magnet behind it, the magnetic force went through her ear lobe! Some of the things, like the table, were too thick for the force to remain very strong so the attraction was not great.  Here are some of the other experiments we did.