Week 3-3: Bicycle Wheel and the SpokeN Word

Tai adding the finishing touches to his wheel

Alexis using the straw as she blows the paint 

Children's circle of sharing - they passed around the glue, paint, and the droppers!

 Yesterday, some of the children drew wings and jets on their bicycles so that they "could go super fast." Today I asked: if a bicycle has wings and flies is it still a bicycle?  Why?  The children agreed that it is a bicycle because the wheels stay on the ground and on the bike.  They also cleverly noted that the wheels on an airplane "go inside the belly while flying" so it "not the same as a bicycle."

 

"If you move really really fast, then you will ride fast."

"Going down a hill makes you go fast."

But children, if you could go that fast, and fly anywhere or any place you wanted to, where would you go, I wondered out loud?  Here was what the children said...

To the moon, to the alien planet to fight the bad guys, to see the stars, to Hawaii, to Grandma's house in England 

And so today we explored what they will look like by creating our own bicycle wheels with blurred colours representing high speeds.

Children have ideas and theories and thoughts and opinions about things - we just have to ask!  And while I could have enquired about how we do travel to the moon, today I decided not to.  I just wanted to support their dreams and dream along with them.  Perhaps one day the children will become poets and touch the moon.  Their dreams can have wings too.