Inquiry Time in the Wee Sprouts!

In term 3 the Wee Sprouts have been looking at Nursery Rhymes and what problems we can find in them. We have then been using the design process to plan and create a way that we can help the characters.

Firstly, we read Little Miss Muffet. We did not know what curds and whey were so in groups we made some and had a taste. Wee Sprouts were very split some of us liked it and some of us really didn’t. In small teams, we then built a new tuffet for Miss Muffet. All of us were able to create a design that held up Miss Muffet.

Most recently we met Humpty Dumpty. He had a big problem!! Every time he fell off his wall he broke and had to go to hospital to get put back together again. As you all know, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men weren’t very good at putting him back together again.

When Humpty Dumpty visited us, he asked if we would be able to design a way to save him if he fell off the wall again. We were all very excited to meet him and get a chance to help him. We brainstormed ways we could help him from breaking and then drew our individual plan.  We tested our designs by dropping a small Humpty Dumpty off the wall.

As you can see some eggs survived and others didn’t. We reflected on why some worked better than others. We shared these with Humpty Dumpty and he decided that he needed to put a net under his wall to catch him next time he falls.

This inquiry into Nursery Rhymes has been a big excitement for us all and we are looking forward to seeing what comes next.