Salty, science-y snowflakes
Today we started an experiment that will take all week to finish.
We cut out paper snowflakes and have covered them in extremely salty water.
We hope to observe salt crystals forming on our snowflakes as the water evaporates, or dries.
Monster Phonics Parent Sessions
Monster Phonics are running some Monster Phonics parent information sessions on Monday 20th January at 10am and 7pm. If you are interested in signing up, here are the…
Winter walks!
We enjoyed a winter walk around school searching for signs of winter! We found ice, frozen gloves, salt to melt the ice, frost that we can draw in and melting ice! We felt the cold, hilly frost on our face and wrapped up warm.
Winter science!
Given the frosty weather outside, I thought I would ask the children what they thought the small rocks were that appear on the playground when it's cold.
Some children already knew that it is salt! We talked about why we put salt down when it's icy, and followed it up with an experiment to…
Christmas Dinner and Santa!
We want to send a huge thank you to Alex and Kay for cooking us the most delicious Christmas Dinner today! We sat with children from different classes and shared Christmas Crackers with them, before tucking into our food.
When we'd eaten our fill, we sang the 12 Days of Christmas, then rang…
Christmas loose parts play!
We have enjoyed making patterns and arrangements with the Christmas loose parts!
Decorating our tree!
We have enjoyed decorating our class for Christmas!
Our diya lamps!
We have been learning about Diwali and we created diya lamps! They bring light and hope!
Snow much fun!
Lots of us had fun playing in the snow and building snowmen today!
Remembrance
We created poppy lanterns and artwork to remember those who have helped and continue to help keep us safe. We have had some brilliant artefacts from home brought into school to share with us too!
Kandinsky style art work!
We have been creating Kandinsky style artwork using circles and triangles!