Blog by Tag: Science

We have had a special arrival of caterpillars in Reception! The children have loved watching them grow over the last week. We have talked about the life cycle of a butterfly and found out that butterflies lay eggs, a caterpillar comes from the egg. The caterpillars then form a chrysalis before…

Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A.  The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need.  After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…

Our children love using natural materials to enhance their play dough learning experiences. This week they made some wonderful creations using buttercups. 
 

In our topic of rocks we have been learning about soil and what it is made from. We had great fun examining samples from our school field. 

We explored the area outside the classrooms for plants. We used magnifying glasses to look carefully at the plants’ features.

The sun was shining and we have been busy gardening this week. We have weeded and cleared before planting a variety of bedding plants.  We have been observing and noticing differences between the plants and exploring the soil as we dig.  

In Nursery we are reading Gigantosaurus which is a story about dinosaurs. This week the children have discovered frozen dinosaurs in class and used a variety of tools to free the dinosaurs. This created a lot of discussion about what they could see, feel and hear. “The ice is melting!” “It’s…

Today we explored how night and day happens.

We explained how the Earth’s rotation results in night and day.

We also investigated shadow lengths and how they are impacted by the height of the sun.

Finally, we hypothesised what would happen if the Earth started spinning faster, slower or…

Today we explored the movement of the Moon.

We looked at the terms waxing and waning to explain how our view of the Moon changes.

Then we used the Lunar Calendar to predict the dates of the next full moon. 

Scooping, pouring, investigating patterns, communicating, teamwork, scientific enquiry were just some of the skills being used in this small world play session in Nursery A this week.  The children were engrossed in their play for a long time.  One boy commented “Look, this snake is stripy but…

We have been learning about different types of animals in Year 1. We worked together to sort the pictures into mammals and birds. We talked about the different features of each animal. 

There are so many beautiful daisies on our soon to be cut grass around school that the children in Nursery A decided to learn some facts about them and collect as many as possible.  We then used them to create daisy chains and in our provision throughout nursery from creating transient artwork to…