Category Archives: Science

Space

 

We were listening to the story “Little Moon”   about a moon that was lost in space.

After reading the story we drew pictures of our own planets and helped little moon to travel around the solar system to find his home, Earth.

We love singing along to the planets song and learning lots of cool facts!

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The children worked together to create the surface of the moon. Lots of gluing, cutting and sticking to develop our fine motor skills.

We also made some rockets and astronauts for our tuff tray.

Our finished product! We enjoyed using our moon for role play and story telling.

Spicing it Up

This week the children spent a long time experimenting in our
Spices Kitchen – smelling, mixing, pouring and describing as they made some very interesting potions, recipes and concoctions…

Some comments from our Young Cooks & Scientists:
“We’re mixing a new potion. Come on, let’s see what colour it makes. Potion No.1 & Potion No.2…”
“What happens when you put this in?… It’s turning yellow… now it’s turned orange.”
“How about this? This is going to be the spiciest one ever!”
“Smell ours, it’s the tastiest.”
“Now we’ve made soup…. and spicy potatoes. They smell yummy!”
“Smell the rosemary. I like that.”
“Look at our porridge. Let’s smell it. I like to put cinnamon in my porridge.”
“They turn squooshy in the water (oats)…
not crunchy.”

If anyone in the family has old/out-of-date spices not needed, please feel free to donate them for further experiments!

Celebrating Creativity and Imaginative Storytelling

Creating landscapes and stories! Knock it down and build it back up again…

Fine motor skills and fun!

Storytime with Mrs Branco during Book Week Scotland
Floating and sinking… scientific investigations…

What could do to make it a fair test?

                         Colours of Autumn
Weaving materials ….pattern and fine motor skills

Shape, colour and using materials to create art

Making bags with a range of materials to practise our weaving skills.

Look what I have made!

Focus, concentration and creativity.

**ALL ABOUT EYES**

As STEM WEEK gets going, we have been thinking and learning all about our eyes, their shape and how we use them. We made our own eyeballs…

“Eyes are for looking.”

“That’s the pupil.”    “It’s a hole”

If it’s too sunny… “I put my hand above my eye like this.”
“I put my hands over my eyes.”
“You can wear sunglasses.”

“If you’re cooking something with onions, your eyes cry.”

“People who can’t see have to feel.”

**5 March 2018 STEM WEEK**

We have been learning about our bodies.

“See when you’re exercising, your blood goes a wee travel round your body”

“See that red, I got blood there”

“My body fights off germs”

“The blood is coming through our bodies”

What is blood made of?

White blood cells that fight germs and infection.

Platelets that help heal cuts.

Red blood cells that carry oxygen.

Plasma helps the blood move through veins and arteries.

 

****Problem Solving and Discovery****

We had great fun discovering the potential of slime!

“We put food colouring in it and glue and water and then it turned into slime but the pink one didn’t work so we had to start again.”

“I skipped it, it went really long”  (It stretched so long we could actually skip with it!)

“I twirl it”

 

We have been experimenting with the trajectory of water.

Early physics!

Super Scientists….Free a Super Hero

imagesu2a6exo4We have been doing science experiments in Nursery. We have been investigating how water changes from one form to another.  We have been very busy, recording, observing, evaluating, analysing, discovering and many more skills including…..patience! Super Heros are trapped in ice. We tried to free them using different materials such as salt, vinegar, sugar and cold water. Which one melted the ice the fastest? We will display the results we recorded in nursery!

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