Curriculum Impact Tag: Science

After reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, some of the children chose to explore and build a rocket with the wooden blocks.  They explored how to position the blocks in different ways using the language big, bigger, small, smaller.  

The children have been exploring day and night. We talked about how the Earth rotates and makes a full turn every day. We discussed when part of the Earth faces towards the sun it is daytime and when Earth faces away from the sun it is nighttime. We have learnt that Earth rotates and the sun…

We have been exploring the seasons of the year and what the weather is like in autumn, winter, spring and summer. We talked about what each season looks like and sorted the months of the year into what season they fall under. 

The children are loving exploring the water tray. Lots of language opportunities as they play. 

The heatwave this week has been a fantastic opportunity for discussion around how to keep cool and hydrated during hot weather.  We have learned lots of new vocabulary and scientific facts! The children have been brilliant in the hot weather and as a special reward we enjoyed a hot weather ice…

The children are having a wonderful week outdoors in forest school with the  sunshine. They are exploring with water, playing in the mud kitchen, practising balancing, playing parachute games and building strong friendships. They also enjoyed story time outdoors with an ice-pop to cool down. 

We were very excited when we came into school today and noticed that our caterpillars had hatched out of their chrysalis' into beautiful butterflies.  After lunch we all went into the garden to set them free and watched as they flew away.  

The children made delicious roasted vegetable pasta sauce today using onions, courgettes, peppers, carrot and tomato.  We prepared and chopped the vegetables, coated them in oil and baked them in the oven.  We then blended them together and combined them with cooked pasta to create a delicious…

We have had a special arrival in Reception! We were welcomed back from the half term break to caterpillars in our classroom! We have talked about the life cycle of a butterfly and even watched a time lapse of the process! We have just loved checking in on our own caterpillars each day, two have…

Today we looked at what is a mammal and an amphibian. We looked at what is a living thing before exploring the similarities and differences between mammals and amphibians.

After weeks of watching and waiting our caterpillars emerged from their chrysalis’ as beautiful butterflies. Today it was time to release them.  We were so excited, just look at our faces! 

As the warmer weather arrives, the children are enjoying looking for insects and minibeasts. They have found woodlouse, spiders, beetles, ladybirds and ants so far and are looking forward to finding more after half term.