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As part of Science Week, F1 created a swirling whirling snowstorm. We watched a clip of how the wind blows the snow around then thought about how we could move our ‘snow’. Ella knew that wind blows the trees and snow. Pixie knew that our boards could make ‘wind’. The results were fantastic!
Winter is HERE! In Science this week we have been looking at the changing in the seasons and weather and boy can we tell that Winter is here!
The Children arrived at school on Tuesday to see that Jack Frost had been overnight and had turned our Foundation Stage garden into a wonderful delight of ice, sparkles and frozen frost! We have had such fun wrapping up warm and exploring the great outdoors to explore ice- what is it? How does it happen? what happens to it? So many great questions and discussions, explorations and observations to discover the answers!
The children have loved touching it, writing their names in it and trying very hard to break it! Great team building and skills as they tried a variety of tools to attempt to smash and break the ice! We have also enjoyed looking at nature around us and how the frost has affected some of the trees, leaves and plants! We had a lovely idea to use our warm hands to help warm up some of the frozen leaves!
And we also couldn’t help but have a sing song outside with our boom box…of course ‘Let it go’ by Elsa had to come out!
Over this half term, in both science and geography, the children have been exploring the changes in the weather and the seasons. As the months have creeped from September to November, the children have noticed the weather begin to change and the trees around them begin to adapt, preparing for the colder months!
Year 1 had a fantastic afternoon at Pickering Park looking for signs of Autumn and exploring the great outdoors! We had a look around the park at all of the different animals and tree/leaf species we could see and identify! We talked about different types of trees and the size of different leaves. We then took our learning back to school by filling our outdoor area with all of the goodies we had collected on the way!
F2 started off the day with ‘Wellness Wednesday’ drinking pink milk and having a chat with biscuits! We counted the scoops of magic as the milk turned a yummy strawberry pink and tasted delicious!
When we looked outside we saw that the weather had suddenly changed and it had begun to SNOW! Mrs. Read and Mrs. Buss were very excited! As well as all of the children!!! We quickly stopped all of our activities and got wrapped up ready to explore the snow!
We had so much fun whirling and twirling in the snowflakes and couldn’t help but sing along with the boom box to some snowy tunes, ‘Let it go’ a firm favourite!
We loved exploring the snow and talking about the weather. The temperature has definitely got colder the last few weeks and we have been able to see that in our Foundation garden. Lots of us enjoyed going on a ‘ice hunt’ and looking for ice in the garden and mud kitchen. We explored how it felt, what happened when we held it tightly and how the ice had frozen leaves on the floor!
This exploration led to lots of chat and discussion when we went back inside to warm up. We talked about what ice was and explored using a bucket of ice we had collected. We realised as it started to drip that ice was just frozen water and that when it melted it turned back into water! The children loved looking at huge pieces of ice, icebergs, on the computer and in some of our books in the classroom!
Another “best day” according to Archie, what could be better than biscuits, pink milk and snow!!!!
This week our eco-warriors and school counsellors were lucky to take part in an ‘Eco Workshop’ were our friend Rob from the ‘School Cycle Scheme’ came and chatted to us about the good and bad benefits of plastic. We talked about the properties of plastic, what makes it a strong and reliable resource and ways we can reuse it. We looked at other materials and this led to lots of discussions about materials and their properties and the impact these materials can have on the planet. Our eco-warriors were shocked to realise just how much plastic waste Hull has alone and how that even after 500 years of possible decomposing, it never fully disappears! Rob showed us some of the ways his ‘Recycle Scheme’ is starting to change this in Hull and how our eco-warriors can be apart of this journey. Our children were very inspired by this discussion and have started the ‘Treasure Tree’ award this week in an attempt to get our school classes using their paper bins productively. We are about to start our plastic bottle cap recycling journey too, and will hopefully raise some earth tokens in order to buy some recycled equipment for our school!
Today Year 1 were identifying and describing the life, works and impact on the world that Sir David Attenborough has had.
We found out that he is a broadcaster and natural historian. Lots of the children had recognised his name before. We learnt that he worked for the BBC presenting lots of programmes about animals and nature.
I asked if any of the children had heard of blue planet which is one of Attenborough’s many nature programmes.
“my grandad always puts that on at his house!” – Myles
We read a story all about Sir David Attenborough’s life and found out that he has many animals and species named after him! We thought this was very interesting. Additionally, we watched some clips of his work and loved learning about how he cares for and protects all different kinds of animals.
We came across the word ‘conservation‘ and discovered that it means to protect the environment we live in, which is what Attenborough has spent his life doing.
“We should always put rubbish in the bin so it does not hurt animals” – Isla-Grey
“We need to be kind to animals and the world” – River
After learning all about Sir David Attenborough, we had a go at drawing some of the key aspects of his life. Like when he started narrating programmes for the BBC, when he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for his work and also some of the animals he has protected over the years.
Finally we had a go at writing a sentence about his life and contributions to finding out about animals and habitats.
In Science this week, Year 1 have continued to look at animals (including humans). This week our enquiry was ‘Why are animals grouped in different ways?’
First of all we looked at the ways we could group different animals as a class.
The children were each given an animal to compare and contrast. The children looked closely at the features of the animals and then grouped them together based on their characteristics.
Here is what some of the children discovered:
“Those animals all have wings and feathers so they must all be birds.”
“They all have hair or fur so they must be mammals.”
The children then had a go at sorting the different animals independently.
This afternoon children from F2 got busy digging and planting in our F2 flower beds! As part of Forest School we had a ‘wellness Wednesday’ out in the garden, weeding and planting some lovely flowers we were kindly donated! We had great fun using our hands to pull out the weeds and dig up and turn over the soil ready for planting. This activity made for a great opportunity to talk about plants, looking at the roots, stem and leaves, and also chat about all the things plants need to grow- soil, sun and water. We were very gentle with the plants and used our kind and caring hands to carefully plant them and nurture them into the soil!
Our F2 garden is very precious to us and we love to be out in our big outdoor space, but the maintenance of it needs a little upkeep! We make sure every week we pick up any litter that has been left from the school drop offs and pick ups, tidy leaves that have gathered and weed and water all our plant beds! I think you’ll agree that the after photo below looks marvelous and the children had a great afternoon keeping those fingers and hands busy and dirty!!!!
