{"id":10938,"date":"2016-01-16T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2016-01-16T20:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:25:37","slug":"ice-investigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2016\/01\/16\/ice-investigators\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no better way to learn about the signs of winter than to be outdoors on a frosty day which is exactly what the weather brought us this week. The effects of a frosty night brought excitement and great opportunities for the children to learn about winter weather. Hard, frozen ground and puddles of ice became exciting resources to experiment with and the children had lots of discussion about how it felt and what would happen if they took it inside. Cayne said, “If you stamp it, it crunches but it goes to water inside”.<\/span>
\nWe had a super team of investigators trying to work out why the digging area had become so hard and various tools were used to try to break it up. Ben said, “If you drag ice, it breaks a bit”<\/span> and there was a lot of discussion about whether the digging area would stay like this forever because the sun was out but the ice was not melting.
\nInstead of our mud kitchen, the children decided that they would have an ice kitchen and they set about making soup and ‘hot stuff’ because they thought it would warm us up. There was certainly a lot of cooking going on and we had helpers in all corners of the garden searching for pieces of ice to break up for ingredients. James said, “You can saw ice off a puddle to make it better”.<\/span>
\nWe counted how many pieces of ice we had in a pan and discussed the different sizes and shapes of them – some children noticed that we couldn’t find a circular piece of ice which caused some great discussion. We even found\u00a0a few\u00a0frozen numbers and tried to find others. Well done all you super thinkers who were outdoors this week – you helped each other to learn about the effects of winter.<\/p>\n

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There is no better way to learn about the signs of winter than to be outdoors on a frosty day which is exactly what the weather brought us this week. The effects of a frosty night brought excitement and great opportunities for the children to learn about winter weather. Hard, frozen ground and puddles of … Continue reading “Ice Investigators”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11864],"tags":[2039,518,268,128,234],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-16","tag-numeracy-and-mathematics","tag-outdoors","tag-quotes","tag-sciences","tag-successful-learners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10952,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}