"They will soar on wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31)
Respect / Responsibility / Courage / Trust / Perseverance / Compassion
Kingfishers have continued to learn about the parts of a plant and why they need them, this week they have been learning about the flower.
They worked together to build the parts of a flower out of play doh, labelled each part and then explained what each part did.
We have been carrying out investigations and recording our findings. We have been exploring the properties of different rocks, considering: durability, density, texture, appearance and whether they are permeable or impermeable.
We are learning that it is important to know the properties of rocks when considering what they can be used for.
We have included measuring, predicting and explaining our findings.
Today we followed instructions to set up an experiment. The experiment showed that light travels in straight lines. If the holes weren’t lined up correctly, the torch beam would not travel all the way through. We also predicted that if the holes were smaller, the amount of light going through would be less.
Kingfishers have been exploring how shadows are made. They created their own investigations in order to discover what materials will and won’t create a shadow, where the source of light needs to be and how to change the shadow – making it larger and smaller.
Kingfishers have been busy exploring a collection of properties by applying different forces and then recording their results. Our next step is to find out how these properties make materials suited to different uses.
As part of their work on exploring the properties of materials and forces, Kingfishers made silly putty. Throughout the activity, the properties of their mixture changed and they were challenged to think of words to describe the properties. With their successful putty, they explored which forces they needed to apply to change the shape.
It was great fun, if a little messy!!
If you want to have a go at home, you need 60ml of washing up liquid and 45g of cornflour.
We have been finding out about what fossils are and how they are formed. We then had fun making our own examples of fossils. We made salt dough and then used dinosaurs to make impressions!!
