After their cress planting, the children in the Rainbow Room moved on to planting sunflower seeds. They talked about how to look after their seeds to help them grow so we hope that they are now thriving at home with the children. We would love to hear about their progress or see photos to show us how much they have grown.
Leah’s family has been looking at the photos of some of the children’s science experiments:
“Leah loved doing science experiments and told us all about it . We saw a book in Aldi with children’s science experiments and we are going to do some at home too . Thank you.”
Well done Leah for talking about your learning at home and it’s great to hear that you are carrying on with your experiments with your family. I hope that you have lots of fun.
Our children have become very interested in doing experiments this year and one of their favourites was when they were science wizards, making a fizzy potion. They listened carefully to instructions as they measured vinegar and washing-up liquid in to a jar. As with all good potion mixing, they children had to give it a good stir and a few magic words before adding baking soda to produce an exciting fizzy fountain. As you can imagine, we had to try this out several times and used different quantities of ingredients each time, including some food colouring, to observe what happened. Science is such fun!
As we begun our learning about growing and to talk about the changing seasons at the end of last term, the children in the Rainbow Room planted cress seeds. They showed great care with their seeds and many showed good knowledge of what they needed to do to make them grow. The good thing about cress is that it grows very quickly so we soon had a little box to taste with our snack and, of course, we all know that things you make yourself always taste better.
Before the holidays the Raindrop Room planted sunflower seeds and learned about how to help them grow. The seeds seemed to germinate very quickly and have all gone home now in their little pots so we look forward to hearing about some super sunflowers or even seeing a photo once they begin to grow. Fingers crossed that they can be planted outdoors and turn into a lovely burst of sunshine in a corner of everyone’s garden.
We have some enthusiastic little scientists in our Nursery who are always keen to try out experiments, making predictions about what might happen and observing the results of their experiments.
Here some of the children were making plastic. They warmed milk in the microwave, added vinegar and stirred the ingredients until they started to clump together. The children then strained their material and used paper towels to press the liquid out and discovered that they had made plastic. This experiment caused great excitement and was tried out several times to check that it worked each time. The children even moulded the plastic into different shapes which successfully held together. As well as developing their understanding of science, the children developed their numeracy skills as they measured ingredients and read numbers to set the dial on the microwave. Everyone loved this fun learning experience.
We all know that most children love bubbles but to make your own is great fun too. These children in the Raindrop Room experimented with different quantities of materials to produce their own bubbles using warm water and a bar of soap which was grated. Once it was whizzed up by an adult and mixed by the children, their ingredients turned into thick foam full of bubbles which provided endless fun.
Just as the children in the Rainbow Room learned about the food triangle and which type of foods help to keep us healthy, those in the Raindrop Room investigated how much sugar was in different types of foods. They found out about checking packaging to check which ingredients are in food and they then measured the amount of sugar there was in each example that they looked at. Once the sugar was on the scales, the children seemed quite surprised at the amount each item had and they were able to compare different foods. Hopefully the children are now beginning to develop an understanding that sugar is not only in sweets as they tended to believe initially.
Just like the children in the Rainbow Room, those in the Raindrop Room were very busy towards the end of term making chocolate nests. I wonder if any of you will make cakes at home when you are on holiday?
It was a very busy end to the term with lots of different activities for the children. Here some of those in the Rainbow Room are busy making their chocolate nests, learning about melting and measuring as they use the microwave to melt their chocolate and count out the various ingredients. We hope that they tasted as good as they looked.
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