Rainbows and Romania

We have made a bit of progress with the Rainbows project.  K has been continuing with her picture, which seems to be taking rather a long time but it is, I am told, 'nearly finished'.  We also had a look at some pictures of rainbows and moonbows online and talked about how, like in our garden experiment, you don't need rain for a rainbow and, in the case of a moonbow, you don't even need the sun! There are some fantastic photos here that we found of rainbows at Victoria Falls in Zambia (a particular point of interest because Granny and Big Grandad lived in Zambia for a couple of years and visited here).  So we talked about big waterfalls being a good place to see rainbows because of the spray from the waterfall.
K has appropriated the big piece of paper that was going to be 'our' poster and it's now hers.  She's even done a little bit of writing to add to it.  I've challenged her to write a bit more and include the word 'refraction' or 'refracted', we'll see if she takes me up on it.

Romania comes in because we've decided to go along to a fortnightly HE group over in Leicestershire, about half an hour away and try it out.  Having had ups and downs of how many 'things' we've done over the past few years, I think the balance has swung towards not enough at the moment (despite our jam-packed Thursday afternoons!).  So we're going along to the last one before the summer, which is going to be an Olympic Sports Day with an opening ceremony parade.  M has decided she does want to take part (K doesn't) and has been allocated Romania.  She's already made her flag, she found Romania on a wooden puzzle of Europe that we've got and we have been watching quite a few videos on youtube of Nadia Comaneci doing her stuff.  Absolutely mind-blowing!