We had an amazing time at the Science Centre on Tuesday. We had time to explore each of the areas and take part in a workshop called Science Safari although I think most of us agree the bus journey was the most exciting part!

During the workshop we had to think about our senses and also search through the garden area looking for things that were soft, tickly and hard. We also spent time searching for minibeasts and other interesting items in the garden. We completed our workshop by making music. We used the instruments to make the sounds of nature such as the wind and the rain.

Thank you so much to our parents helpers who came along, the experience was made so much more enjoyable by you 🙂

Here are some comments that we shared with each other after the trip and lots of photos to show how wonderful our day was!

‘I liked playing at the Science Centre, the hamster wheel was my favourite part.’

‘I liked the bubbles, they went up and they were flat.’

‘I liked watching the balls move.’

‘The running track was my favourite. There was a timed and I tried to see how fast I was in the timer.’

‘I liked watching the fishes blow up in the air.’

‘The floor with the shapes that made the music was my favourite part.’

‘I liked it when we were on the bus. I enjoyed watching out the window.’

‘My favourite part was building the bones and making a skeleton.’

    

   

   

    

    

   

   

   

   

    

   

   

    

Superworm is super long. Superworm is super-strong. Watch him wiggle! See him squirm! Hip, hip, hooray for SUPERWORM!

We have been reading Superworm and completed STEM activities based on the story. We have loved reciting the above poem in the story which is written by Julia Donaldson.

We wanted to create our own Superworms so ventured into the woodland to find our own sticks.

    

It was fun finding my own stick.

I wanted to find a big stick.

We then used our creative powers and turned our ordinary, brown sticks into amazing Superworms.

I liked making my Superworm because I liked putting the diamonds on.

I put some jewels onto my Superworm to make a necklace.

I liked putting the stickers on to my Superworm.

We discussed what a habitat is and then shared what we think Superworm’s habitat should be like. We looked at pictures from the book along with pictures of real habitats for worms. Using this information, we designed our own habitat for our own Superworms.

A habitat is an animal’s house.

I liked drawing Superworm.

Superworm likes soil, grass and flowers.

Thank you to all of our grown ups who came to our Pop In and Play. We were so excited to have you in our classroom and show you the areas we love to explore and some of the learning we have been doing recently.

I enjoyed exploring in the home corner with Mummy.

I liked showing my Mum the Bee-Bots.

My Mummy helped write my name using some letters.

I played tea party with my Mummy.

When I played with Mummy her sticks broke in the maze and I fixed it.

I liked making the lines with my Dad.

I made a maze for the Bee-Bot with my Mum and then I went outside.

 

This week we have been celebrating Maths Week Scotland. The theme for this was Maths in Motion. We have been discussing this each day and enjoyed watching the teachers compete with each other in the step count challenge. 

Each day we completed some exercises to the beat of our counting. We managed to count all the way to 100.

We were moving and counting.

We were exercising and counting to 100.

Without even realising we were using Maths to help the cars move faster and slower in the Construction Area. This prompted a discussion and linked in with the learning we have been completing with Miss Hutchison.

I was trying to zoom the cars over some more cars and then they were going up and down over the bumps. It landed on it’s wheels and tyres.

I was jumping the cars and my car goes down the ramp and then my car jumped over four cars.

Some slowed down and some didn’t.

The cars go faster if the ramp is higher and go slow if the ramp is lower.

The cars went super fast.

The car went up in the air over some cars.

We have been thinking about Position and Direction and how we can use our knowledge to move the Bee-Bots around the spots on our carpet. We had to give the Bee-Bot a clear set of instructions and think about the way we wanted the Bee-Bot to turn.

We were thinking about our position and our direction.

My left hand makes the letter ‘L’ to help me remember.

We had to press the right buttons and then ask it to go.

We had to give Bee-Bot a clear set of instructions.

The cross button told Bee-Bot to forget.

    

Alongside Maths Week Scotland we have been thinking about number. We have been practising our number formation and also using our knowledge of numbers to find the missing number. We have to think about the number before and after the missing number to help us do this.