In Team CW we have been learning what a pattern is and what they can look like. We looked at patterns on animals and described what we could see. Some of the words we used were “colourful” “stripy” and “spotty.” We learnt to identify if a pattern is repeating or not. We went on Welly Walk and tried to spot patterns in our nature area. Here are some of the patterns that we found! We found a repeating pattern in the fence, we saw that the stepping stones were in a circular pattern, that bark and wood have beautiful patterns in it when we looked closely and feathers have a very stripy pattern if we look at each tiny spike within it. We saw that leaves have many different patterns around their edge and that their veins make patterns and we also noticed that acorns have patterns on their cups!
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This week Team JF carried out our half termly enquiry based on pattern seeking. The children carried out careful observations around the school grounds. We decided to investigate and find the answer to our big question of where would we find the most insects? From this we discussed the similarities and differences between their habitats and why they might be the happiest there. After we carried out our investigation, we looked at our findings and concluded there was a pattern to the habitat and number of insects living there. More insects are found in dark, damp, sheltered spaces.
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.
Our learning focus has been on keeping healthy. Our book of the week was “Oliver’s Vegetables”.
The children have learnt about the different ways we can keep healthy and have tried the following new fruits at snack time – watermelon, mango, kiwi and pineapple. Children practised their cutting skills to create their own healthy lunchbox following a class discussion on the importance of eating a balanced diet. The children were very good at ensuring their lunchboxes were filled with lots of healthy food creating a balanced lunch! The children have also been sorting foods into healthy and unhealthy, and know the importance of exercise to help keep us healthy. This week we continued with our growing topic, looking at minibeasts. We listened to the story of Superworm and talked about the rhyme of the story as well as noticing all the different minibeasts in the story and sorting them by the number of legs and writing captions to describe the creatures. We have had a wormery in class to observe the movement of the worms and we made wool patterned worms and compared different length playdough worms. On Friday we continued with our bean diary, looking for changes in our bean plants.
Head over to their page to read more! "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! Before half term Team JF began to plan and create a science based DT project based on our topic 'Life by the Seaside'. We decided that we were going to make a coastal shoe box habitat. First, we chose which habitat we were going to create, most of us chose a beach or a rockpool. Then, we drew a labelled plan of what our habitat was going to look like and what materials we were going to use. A week later after many of us brought in a cardboard box, it was time to create our coastal shoe box. The first thing we did was paint our boxes and added details like clouds, made of cotton wool and waves with white paint. Then once dry, we added sand, seaweed made from pipe cleaners, animals, rocks and other materials. This week we evaluated our habitats and reflected on what went well and what we could change if we were to do it again.
Head over to their class blog to see some amazing pictures! We have been learning about living and non-living things this week in science. First we discussed what we thought made something living and Team JF concluded that something must be able to move to be living. Next, we watched a science video explaining to us that for something to be living it must be able to grow and have energy. This made us think, that a tree or a flower doesn't but it definitely does grow. On our desks we had lots of images of things like toys, animals, plants and cars, we sorted them into living and non-living piles and discussed why we put them there.
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