This week we started learning about the different states of water. Lots of us could explain that you can turn water from a liquid state to a solid state by making ice! We were all intrigued to find out that we could reverse that process by melting the ice to turn it back into a water!

We also discussed that we can turn water from a liquid to a gas and shared that they have seen this when the kettle has boiled at home and the steam rises out of it!

We took our learning into the garden and explored with water and ice!

The large cubes of ice didn’t last long.

We loved feeling how cold the ice was in our hands.

‘Look, it’s melting!’

We experimented with how quickly the ice slid down the tubes.

The ice was very slippy and hard to keep in our hands.

   

   

We used the ice in our ‘cooking’ and were very surprised that it stuck to a pan.

We also explored with water, moving it between various containers and pouring it down the tubes to see how far it would go.

Once all the excitement if the ice was over, some of us made a train with the crates. It was free to go on the train and everyone had a very lovely trip! Look at those happy faces 🙂

 

One of our ‘big questions’ about Scotland was ‘What are some Scottish words?’

Together we read ‘There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie’ and found it very funny that we are also known as lassies and laddies!

We all know ‘Head, Shoulders. Knees and Toes’ but we didn’t know ‘Heid, Shudders, Knaps and Taes’.  We had lots of fun learning the words and doing the actions.

In small groups we then read some Scottish words and had to guess it’s meaning. There was lots of giggles and we were all very keen to find out the Scottish word for bottom.

    

This week we started our block of learning about painting. We started by exploring the colour wheel and discussed the primary colours we can mix to make secondary colours. We had a go at mixing blue and yellow and used these skills to paint some balloons in blue, yellow and green.

We then discussed the technique of blending and using this and our skill of mixing we created our own seascapes. We still need to add our fish to them!

On Friday, we mixed two different colours to make orange. We painted red, yellow and orange squares which we will turn into houses.

We also completed our learning for now about time by exploring time on a digital clock. We matched analogue and digital times together and then had a go at writing our own digital time on whiteboards by looking at an analogue clock.