The beginning of Case Study 2 in Nursery! 🌹🌿🪴

This week we have had a mini hook week introducing us to our next Case Study – ‘What happens when we plant a seed?’

The sand in our sand tray has magically turned into soil and we have been using gardening tools and plant pots to make ’soil castles’.

We have also been making our own succulent pots in the playdough area, using brown playdough, plant pots, leaves and decorative stones to create mini succulent plants.

We have also been sorting different parts of a flower in the tuff tray. We’ve been deciding whether it is a stem, leaf, petal or full flower and putting it in the correct section. The petals are really soft to touch and the flowers smell beautiful!

Do sharks eat polar bears?

This was the question that Crew Godley were eager to find out. We were exploring food chains and the question popped up that could a polar bear be eaten by a shark? The answer was yes! Greenland sharks 🦈 can survive up to 200 years at depths of up to 600 meters under the artic ice 🧊. They are bigger than a great white and been known to eat polar bears 🐻‍❄️. We were fascinated by the facts we discovered.

Shadows

During Science, we have been investigating how we get shadows. To achieve green standard, children had to explore if they could prove whether light travels in straight lines or not.

By the end of experiment, children were confident that light travels in straight lines and that we have shadows due to an object blocking the light source.

Circuits

We have had such a wonderful first few weeks back at school and the children’s enthusiasm for learning is wonderful to see especially when we have been learning about circuits. The children in LKS2 have enjoyed investigating how circuits work and what happens in additional equipment is added. They particularly enjoyed adding a switch and buzzer to their circuits. The children have demonstrated fantastic HOWLs by listening to each other carefully when creating their own circuits.