Explore Time experiments

This term our Key Competency is Thinking. Part of being a good thinker is being curious. During Explore Time on Friday we have been doing some experiments. We have had to predict what we think will happen and then talk about our results.

Miss Smith and some children made 'Inside Snow' this is special snow that we can mould and make things with even though it is not cold and wintry.

We mixed shaving foam and cornflower in a large container. 

It was really fun spraying in the shaving foam. 

 Then we mixed it with our hands.

Once it was all mixed in, we could mould it into shapes. 

Puzzle Time

This afternoon Room A enjoyed a time exploring the puzzles. Some were big floor puzzles, others were table puzzles. Everyone was very focussed and busy - well done Room A! 

Athletics

Very soon we will have the Junior School Athletics Day. We have been practising different athletic skills in PE this term. Today Room B children were learning how to jump over the high jump. We had to practise scissor jumping then line up on different sides depending on which leg we lifted first. More children liked to jump their right leg first.

Theo's Simple Machine

Theo made this simple machine at home, using some construction building toys he got from the Toy Library. Well done Theo!

Room A - "What Am I?" Bag

Joel took the "What Am I?" Bag home last week. He put his toy dog in the bag and then thought of some clues to help us clues what it was.

Levers Part 2

For the second part of our levers works we went outside and tried to lift heavy weights. We used a stick as a lever to help us and a block of wood as a fulcrum to push against. Next we went back inside and used the long blocks as levers in the classroom.

  

Levers Part 1

Last week we learnt about our first Simple Machine - the lever. First we made see-saws using blocks and the animals. We learnt some key vocab words - load, heavy, light and fulcrum.