EYFS: Signs of Spring Hunt
Today, EYFS enjoyed going on a ‘signs of Spring’ walk around the school grounds. They looked high and low to find signs of Spring and were delighted to find birds, daffodils, a nest, flowers, green leaves on trees and some buds. Back in the classroom the children did some fantastic writing to…
Investigating materials
This afternoon we investigated the hardness of different materials using a scratch test.
Periscopes
We built our own periscopes and investigated their uses.
Botanist for a Day: Little Scientists in the Making
This week in our Science lesson, we traded in our usual classroom setting for the great outdoors in Forest School. The mission? To become botanists for the day! Equipped with magnifying glasses and identification charts, the children set off to study the hidden flowers in the forest.
The…
Reflecting light using mirrors
Our scientists spent time investigating how light travels, measuring the angles of the reflected ray against the incoming ray.
Experimenting with toothbrushes.
Our Science topic this half term is all about the different types of teeth we have and how we can look after them. Today we carried out an experiment to see if the hardness of a toothbrush affects the time it takes to clean our teeth.
We had lots of fun cleaning the dirty teeth and…
Light and Shadows
The class were investigating whether the distance between the object and wall impacted the size of the shadow
Wiggly Wonders: Our Wormery Adventure
Today in Science, Class One became worm experts! We learned all about micro habitats - tiny, special places where creatures like worms live. And where do worms live? Under the soil, of course!
Armed with trowels and a lot of excitement, we headed outside to our Forest School area to make a…
Investigating melting.
We have been investigating how the temperature of water affects how quickly solids melt. As part of our experiment we used thermometers to measure the temperature. We were so amazed that one of our ice cubes took 40 minutes to melt!
Exploring solids.
In science we have been exploring different solids to find out their properties. At the start of the lesson some of us thought all solids were hard but now we know things like, sand, clay and fabric are all solids too. We tried compressing different solids, pouring them and changing their…
Water filtration!
I gave the children a challenge, to turn muddy water clear by only using equipment they can find in my classroom.
Each team was given a set of beakers, household items and a test tube to collect their filtered water in.
No water was consumed during this experiment.
The results were…
Getting messy in Science!
This week we investigated how prospectors panned for gold by sieving different size solids to separate the mixture.