​In nursery we have been investigating ice in our water tray. We found out that the ice was really cold but as we played with it using our warm hands, it began to melt. Some of the comments from the children included: “it’s freezing!! Wow, it’s so slippy in my hands.” “it’s melting ‘cos it’s getting hot,” “oooh it’s all runny and wet.”
Key vocabulary- cold, icy, freezing, melt/ melting.

​Team CH have loved science this half term, especially discovering more about the world around us. We began our learning this half term by investigating the seven things living things can do, such as breath, eat, get rid of waste, reproduce, react, move and grow. To further our understanding we explored some things that are alive, were once alive and were never alive and produced a graph to show and share the results. As we dove in deeper, we began to look at how organisms live in specialised habitats. We thought carefully about what a habitats must provide the animal and the needs of that animal. In addition to this we also investigated the Cuttlefish and talked about how it uses active camouflage to hunt pray and hide from predators. Next, we investigated coastal habitats such as, beaches, seaside towns, sand dunes, rocky shores and cliffs and began to become familiar with a variety of birds that live in these costal environments. We enjoyed searching for and writing facts about these amazing costal birds. Our Local habitats are very important to us, and we understand the importance of recycling and caring for the wildlife around us. This is why we have produced some posters to raise awareness of our wonderful local habitats and planned, then built some incredible bird feeders. Finally we have started to explore wider habitats that can be found in different continents across our world.      

In Science, we have been exploring world habitats. The class were split into teams and given a world habitat to research. They needed to consider what the conditions of this habitat was, what creatures lived there and how they have adapted. ​

"WOW!" has been heard a lot in nursery this week as the children have been so amazed to see the growth of both our caterpillars and beanstalks. Our caterpillars have doubled in size over the course of this week and we were very excited to notice on Friday that they were forming their cocoons! We are wondering how long it will be before we have some butterflies!
The children have also been carefully observing the growth of their bean plants each day. They  have learnt the words "shoot" and "root" and were excited to see how tall they were by the end of the week. 

Head over to their class page to see the amazing pictures! 

Compare and Group Together Everyday Materials on the Basis of Their Properties
 
Children in Team AF and LL recapped their learning and knowledge of properties of materials. They revisited and defined property language such as: insulating, magnetic, flammable, permeable, flexible, magnetic and absorbent. The children collected a range of materials and suggested a range of tests they could carry out to test certain properties. Pupils developed their own recording methods and criteria for testing and measuring. They compared, described and sorted a range of materials by their properties. Pupils recorded their findings and fed back to the class.