As part of their unit of light, team LF have also been identifying different parts of our eyes, by labelling the inner and outer areas. This is to deepen their understanding on how light enters their eye in a straight line.
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This autumn term, Team DB have been exploring light. They have demonstrated how light travels in a straight line from its light source to our eyes and then how it travels from a light source, to an object and then to our eyes. They created a model to show how this happens and labelled it with an explanation. This half term in Team SG, they have been speaking about what light is, where it comes from and why it becomes dark. They have been investigating the various things that light allows us to see and then predicted what they would be able to see in their flashlights.
This half term as part of their pattern seeking investigation, Team DB have been exploring if there is a relationship between a mammal's size and it's gestation period. Overall, they found out that the smaller the animal, the shorter the gestation period is and the bigger the animal, the longer the gestation period is.
This half term Team LF have explored how the planets distance from the sun affects its temperature as part of their pattern seeking investigation.
Team JF carried out this half terms enquiry focus by testing the most suitable waterproof material. We started by planning our investigations carefully, thinking of the materials to use and how to ensure it is fair. From this we made our predictions and had lots of fun putting them to the test! Team CH were asked the question “Will a bean plant grow better in the dark or in the sunlight?” We decided that we would plant some bean seeds and place some in the dark and some in the light. But, before we could plant anything we needed to ensure our test would be fair. In order to make the test fair, we measured out 40 cubes of soil using the balance scale and poured the soil into a bag. Next we each pushed one seed into the soil and pour ten ml of water into our bags. Finally we made our predications and the adults put our bags in the sunlight or in the dark.
This week minibeasts remained our focus in provision, our story of the week was “All About Minibeasts” by Giles Andreae. Children have had the opportunity to write “What Am I?” cards for different minibeasts using their Fred Fingers. We are having a big focus on Reception choosing to write short captions and sentences independently and are so proud of the writing they are producing – keep it up! We have had small world minibeasts to explore and we have continued to create our own junk modelled minibeasts in the creative area! Our funky finger activity was to thread the laces in and out of the different shapes. In our outdoor area we spotted a beetle and on Welly Walk we took part in a minibeast hunt and had lots of fun! We have continued to have lots of fun on the tractor tyre. This week we used it to balance on whilst playing a throwing game with our friends. We have also enjoyed practising writing our numerals and playing ‘tic-tac-toe’ with the chunky chalks! Here are some photos of us having lots fun and doing some wonderful learning in our outside area and on Welly Walk! Not too much has happened this week in the wormery except we have noticed a couple of trails of sand that the worms have moved as they squirmed through the soil. We collected some leaves on welly walk and added them to the top of the wormery for the worms to feed on. We have also kept the soil moist as worms are very happy in damp conditions We are really developing our observational skills each day as we look carefully and talk about what we can see happening and changing in our growing area.
This week we have noticed that our bean plants have started to grow small, green shoots. We have seen that some are taller than others and a couple have started to grow leaves. We also noticed that some of them have roots coming from the bottom of the plant pot. Our new words are shoot and root. We are also watching our sunflowers each day and hope they may begin to grow over the weekend. Finally, we are watching and waiting for our butterflies to emerge from their cocoons- we think it might be next week! How exciting! |
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