FAVERSHAM DAY - WOO HOO

Hello lovely peeps, sorry didn't post yesterday, but find Faversham really tiring.  No idea why as I'm not exactly running around, but lots of people and lots of things going on and a train journey there and back always knackers me.  Callum finds it the same, to the point where he dozed off on my shoulder on the train home.

So what did we do this week?  Well week 2 of Mad Science for an hour to start with which was an interesting look at some basic forensic science tasks.

We started off by getting into groups and the kids were given a ripped up sheet of A4 paper with a message on it.  They had to sort out the paper to read the message and then, using a dictionary, they had to figure out some of the message as it was written in Spanish.

Next we did some testing of acids and alkalines using litmus paper and then another group activity using foam skeletons.  Each group was given a bag of bones and using the skull had to find the right bones to go with the right body.  Each foam piece had a coloured man on the back and your group's colour was determined by the skull.  The kids had to visit each group and swap pieces to end up with their own complete skeleton.

Much noise and running about ensued!!!

Finally back at the tables they were given A4 sheets of plain paper, some pipettes and some paint and they had to produce some splatter blobs using the pipettes at various heights from the paper.

A lot of the smaller (and even some of the older kids) had had information overload at this point, so ended up making pictures rather than splattering, but it was all good fun anyway.

Obviously between all this activity the guy explained what the tasks were, why they were used and what they would obtain from the results if used at a real crime scene.

After the session, Callum  ran off with Stewart into the computer room and I didn't see him until it was time to clear up and go home.  He's really enjoying the Mad Science; joining in and working well with the other kids.

Today, was seeing his sister day.  But we managed to finally complete the sheets of maths revision questions I gave him weeks ago and he got a score of 55 out of 57!  So really pleased.

And this afternoon they have been baking.  Completing and now cooking the Creole cake that we set up the fruit for last week and making 16 chocolate cupcakes which will go in the freezer ready to be iced for Halloween.  They are now both watching TV together in the next room

All off to pictures tonight to watch Frankenweenie.

Cya later.