We came up with as many roles as we could think of that people in a Stone Age settlement might have to do. I was scribbling frantically to keep up with the ideas. We then still framed the ideas thinking about who had taught us to use them, what we were doing with them and what practical and personal skills we would need to be successful.
In science, we looked at rocks again. We tried to categorise them in terms of hardness, permeability with water and observing what might happen if we put vinegar, a weak acid, on them. After not seeing much happen, we tried crushing some samples in a mortar and pestle and trying again. Much more satisfying.
In English, we have continued drafting our poems. This is one we started together. We are finding that structuring a poem is very hard, that finding appropriate verbs is very hard, that writing a decent shape poem is nigh on impossible and that the children are more creative than I am. However, hopefully, our final efforts will make the wall this week and we’ll get them on the blog.