Week Beginning 15.1.2018

The seas....the waves....the land...
This week we have worked on different questions however they were still related to water.
We started the week by locating the seas and oceans in our planet and found out that there is much more water than there is land. From there we talked about waves and how they are made. All of the children had something to say about waves:
They come in different sizes: big, small, medium....different strengths: strong, weak, gentle, choppy, and different looks: frothy, flat, shiny, foamy.

We also continued with yoga and experimented with more new positions. take a look at the children efforts in achieving the 'Sliding Board' position. It seems very easy but it took some time before we got there...

 Palms on the carpet, behind our back.

 Straight legs and toes pointing away from our body.

 Breathe in and lift your body.

  Hold the position for five seconds and breathe out lowering the body.



We had the perfect weather to test our rain gauges so after a rather wet and miserable morning we went outside and checked how much rain had been caught.

We were quite disappointed to find out that most of the bottles had been knocked over by the wind and those still standing had hardly any water in them.
We looked, talked, thought and shared our ideas and came to the conclusion that because the gauges were placed a bit too close to the fence that might have stopped the rain from falling into the bottles.

We came up with a Plan B:

The rain gauges should now be safe from the wind and because we have moved them to the middle of the playground nothing should be in the way of the rain....

 

Following one of the children's questions about what happens when the sea meets the land, we decided to spend the afternoon investigating wet and dry sand.  We felt the difference in texture, we looked at whether you can change the shape and how easily it holds a shape.  We then introduced 'waves' using water dropped from a pipette to see how it changed any structure that had been made.  Children were very inquisitive and came up with some fantastic conversation about how and why they thought things happened.

 

 

 

 

 

A volcano with a lava eruption.

 

This week saw the start of our 'independent challenge' book.  The children are introduced to a number of different tasks that they are expected to complete independently and then add their name to the finished list in our book.  Everyone enjoyed this and are already looking for ward to whatever they may have to do next week.

 

 

 

Have a lovely weekend everybody.