Is jelly always wobbly?

"Is Jelly always wobbly?"

After reading "Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly" by Nick Sharratt, this question really got us thinking in Cassatt class!

Initially, everyone answered with a certain yes. We then looked at the two ingredients we were using, jelly cubes and water. Children agreed that these two things, when put together, would always make wobbly jelly, "especially when you poked it!"

Miss Lawrence then asked:

"What if you put too much water in?"

Children spoke with their partners about how the jelly would "fall off the plate" and be "like a puddle" and concluded that it would be "watery, not wobbly". Children then explored the idea of there being not enough water. It was suggested that the "jelly cubes would just stay too hard" and that "they wouldn't wobble much" either.

Children then hypothesised about the effect of hot water on the jelly cubes:

"Its needs to be hot to melt it!"

"If it wasn't hot the jelly cube would be still in a cube."

"If the water was really cold the jelly cube would freeze!"

So as a class, we came to the conclusion that our jelly would be wobbly if we followed the instructions and put the correct amount of each ingredient in! Lots of children still had ideas to share in choosing time, so they wrote their thoughts down on a question board. Some children still answered with a 'yes' because jelly is the product of two specific ingredients, so anything other that something that is wobbly, isn't actually jelly!

After all this talk about jelly, we made some of our own!