We are very lucky! One of our colleagues, Karen, who works at a centre in Rowville, contacted us and asked if we’d like to have have a new born lamb visit our children.
Naturally we said “Yes please!”, made a date and out came Karen and Lou Lou, who was by then three weeks old.
Our children were enthralled at seeing this beautiful creature walking around on the end of a lead …
and lined up to have a turn of showing Lou Lou our yard.
As Lou Lou was very hungry by that stage …
everyone got to have a go at feeding her with a bottle.
They had to be very quick at passing the bottle along …
as Lou Lou is a very fast drinker.
The children couldn’t stop giggling at the sight of a very long lamb’s tail wiggling back and forth at a great rate of knots!
Lou Lou is very used to being handled by humans and loved being with the children.
Evidently at her own kinder she even enjoys jumping on the trampoline!
While Karen was with us we were discussing science experiments (as you do) and she told us that an experiment she loves to do with her children is about a polar bear who changes colour – “The Magic Polar Bear”.
We thought a good way of following up Lou Lou’s visit would be to change the story from being about a polar bear to being about a lamb instead. Here it is.
Lou Lou the Lamb
Place a glass jar filled with water on a table.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful white lamb who visited St John’s Kindergarten. Now this kindergarten was filled with many boys and girls and their teachers, Sherry and Donna.
Some of those children were named Alannah, Aydan and Katie, and they had beautiful golden hair. On the day Lou Lou visited the kindergarten, she wished she had golden hair like the children. She shut her eyes tightly and wished very hard for golden hair.
Put 2 drops of yellow food colouring in bottle.
AMAZING! A GOLDEN lamb — oh, my goodness! Do you think she was supposed to be a golden lamb?
Ask the children to slap, slap, clap, clap, and snap and say:
LOU LOU LAMB
YOU ARE A SIGHT!
YOUR COLOR WAS RIGHT
WHEN YOU WERE WHITE!
Lou Lou stopped and thought about her new colour! She thought the children would like her new golden colour! She sat down with her head on her front feet and began to think about her problem.
Now, as Lou Lou rested, she saw a new colour. What did she see? As she raised her head and looked around, she saw lots of children in the playground. Ben wore a green hat, Indiana wore a green jumper, Lachlan wore green pants and Sophie had green boots. Guess what Jayden had in his pocket? He had a GREEN marble! Lou Lou thought GREEN must be the most beautiful colour in the world! Maybe she should be a green lamb. She shut her eyes and began to wish she was green.
Add 2 drops of blue.
Now she was a GREEN lamb!!
But the children said:
LOU LOU LAMB
YOU ARE A SIGHT!
YOUR COLOR WAS RIGHT
WHEN YOU WERE WHITE!
Now this made Lou Lou feel sad. She went home to the farm for lunch and saw her friend Flicka who is a beautiful brown horse. Lou Lou Lamb thought that maybe the children would like her if she were brown instead.
Add 2 drops of red.
Now she was a BROWN lamb!!
But when she went back to kinder the children said:
LOU LOU LAMB
YOU ARE A SIGHT!
YOUR COLOR WAS RIGHT
WHEN YOU WERE WHITE!
Now what was Lou Lou going to do? She was all brown, and the children were right, lambs are white, not golden, green or brown. Sherry and Donna could see that Lou Lou was unhappy so suggested to the children that perhaps they could wash away the brown colour.
They found a tub of nice warm water and gently rubbed her down. Slowly the brown colour was washed off Lou Lou.
Teacher bleaches the water …
and slowly over the next little while…
once again …
she was a white lamb!!
Children chant:
LOU LOU LAMB
YOUR COLOUR IS RIGHT!
WE LOVE YOU!
WE LOVE YOU!
YOU ARE WHITE!
Lou Lou decided NEVER to change her colour again. After all, lambs are supposed to be WHITE, RIGHT?
