January 27
Making compost
In this activity the girls were shown how to make good compost and how decomposition works. Their bottle of compost is sitting by the herb garden in the sun and almost two weeks later is coming along well. It smells great - loads of microbes happily aerobically decomposing.
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| chopping up ingredients.. |
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| ..and sealing the bottle. Photos by RL |
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February 4
Making an Abacus
Saturday Science became Saturday Maths this week, as P wanted to show the girls how to make their own abacus. In the end they made a soroban instead - the Japanese version which is slightly less complicated than the traditional Chinese abacus.
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| getting materials organised |
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| adding the Earthly beads |
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| Finished! | |
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Our sorobans have seven Heavenly Beads and twenty eight Earthly Beads.
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| two million, seven hundred and thirty five thousand, four hundred and eighteen. |
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