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The Daisies class have enjoyed participating in our daily science experiments this week. We explored our senses and had a different experiment each day focusing on our senses.
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch
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During this busy week, the Sunflowers have celebrated St Patrick’s Day by learning all about the Leprechaun that followed the rainbow to reach the pot of gold. Each child helped find the parts of the rainbow and put it together to make their own. We managed to collect golden chocolate coins when our rainbow was complete.
Holi is known as the Festival of Colour and the Sunflowers loved taking part in coloured science experiments. Each child watched a clear prism change colours in clear light. As it is Science week, we have had other experiments each day whilst learning about touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Below are also some photos of us experimenting and exploring the senses. What a fun week!
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We have thoroughly enjoyed Science Week where we have been exploring our senses by doing a selection of experiments for taste, hearing, light, touch and smell. We learned that a blocked nose (or if you hold your nose) affects your sense of taste and we particularly enjoyed the sound game and ‘dancing’ rice which showed sound waves.
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The Snowdrops have enjoyed exploring the senses during Science Week. Everyone actively participated in experiments relating to the senses, and everyone was very sensible when handling equipment and materials. The Snowdrops enjoyed using a ray box to look at colours and spinners to see the colours blend together. The Snowdrops were confident in giving their opinion during taste and smell experiments. Some Snowdrops were even able to manage ‘no peeking’ during the touch experiment! Well done, Snowdrops!
Science week in Willowbank. We have all been confident individuals making our predictions on the success rate of our experiments. We enjoyed the anticipation of watching what was happening during the experiment and talking about what we see.
Yesterday Mr Campbell spoke about St Patrick’s day at assembly and his background on the screen made him look like he was in Dublin. Today we went for a rainbow hunt in the garden. We came back to class made the rainbow and found a pot of gold at the end. We then all enjoyed a gold chocolate coin.
We also used a fork to paint a beard on our very own leprechaun. We enjoyed using the fork to make it look like the beard and hair. We then added a green hat to our leprechaun. Some of the pupils were able to independently use the fork making a beard. We then used a pencil to create a face for our leprechaun some had big smiles and some even had big eyebrows.
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The Snowdrops have enjoyed learning about the Festival of Holi this week. They showed lots of interest in a video about the colourful celebrations that take place during the festival. The Snowdrops then participated in splatter painting to create colourful cards to wish everyone ‘Happy Holi’.
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We watched a selection of video’s and a powerpoint to tell us about the Hindu festival of colour. We particularly liked the thought of throwing powder paint at each other! We created a cosmic suncatcher using plastic lids, glue and food colouring. Once dried they should look great hung up on our classroom windows.
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As part of our many Science Week tasks, the Sunflower’s loved extracting dinosaurs from ice blocks and eggs. After learning about how dinosaurs grow and hatch from eggs, each child engaged in sensory play and used tools to try and chisel the dinosaurs free. Some children decided to try and break or melt the ice to collect their dinosaurs and it was great to compare the difference in melting ice using both hot and cold water. We noticed that larger blocks of ice took much longer to melt. Good job Sunflowers!
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The Sunflower’s have been learning all about the importance of good health and well-being with a focus on dental hygiene. All pupils were able to listen to the teeth brushing song and engage by pointing to their teeth. Most pupils were able to brush a false set of teeth thoroughly with a brush and toothpaste. Some pupils made a social story independently by putting the steps of tooth brushing in the correct order during a sequencing game. Great Work Sunflowers!!
