Week beginning 13.03.23
This week the children have been exploring a range of activities relating to STEM in celebration of STEM week ๐งช ๐ฅ ๐ทโโ๏ธ ๐งฎ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics
Exploring soil ๐
As we have been focusing on the Jungle, we began looking at the jungle floor layers and their purpose. We looked at the soil specifically and how it give plant life nutrients and then we created our own terrariums to show the different layers and how it looks. We created these using various glass containers. We will be looking at these on a daily basis to discover if there is any insect life or new plant life ๐ย
Science!
The name comes from the Latin terra (โearthโ) + atrium (a place or receptacle) Like an aquarium for plants and earth instead of fish and water.
We later planted some vegetable seeds and herbs in the garden after really enjoying our terrarium building ๐ฑ
We also had a special visitor in the ECC this week. Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson are parents within the centre who specialises in science. They prepared a fantastic experience for us which included learning about bugs/insects. We explored mean bugs and superhero bugs, to understand which bugs help us and which we should avoid. We got to use special microscopes from the university and explored different samples. The children throughly enjoyed this experience and we thank Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson for their involvement and help in STEM week โญ๏ธย
We ended our week with our STEM awards ceremony where everyone was recognised for their part during the week ๐ ๐ซ
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In relation to STEM week, everyone had the opportunity to participate in our outdoor challenge ๐งฑ The children were set the challenge of using multiple resources to create a tower of height. They then had to use various measuring objects to calculate who had created the tallest tower before recording their findings on our whiteboard. The children discussed numbers, sizes and ordering of numerals. The winner of the highest tower was awarded a special certificate for their achievement ๐
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and take care,
Lisa ๐
