We had to have a Health and Safety talk before we did our experiment. We could not do this experiment ourselves. An adult had to demonstrate it because it involved boiling water and we could get scalded if the water went onto our skin. So, for this experiment we had to watch and listen carefully and stay a safe distance from the equipment.

Our goal was to explore water in its gas state so, we watched what happened when cold water was heated up in a kettle. The bubbles stared off tiny and moving slowly then they got bigger and bigger as the water got hotter.

The bubbles were full of air or gas.

When the water was at 100oC it was at boiling point. Then steam started to come out of the spout. This was water in its gas state. The bubbles in the boiling water were now huge.

When a mirror was held over the spout the steam hit the cold surface, it became condensated and we witnessed the steam turning back into liquid water again.

We got really excited when we looked out of our classroom window and saw what was happening on the Nursery  roof.The water was evaporating, steam was rising into the air and this was us seeing water as a gas in real life. We couldn’t have planned it better!

What tools do use to help you when you get into difficult waters on the river of life ?

We used our imaginations to think about what hope looks like. There were lots of rainbows and butterflies in our pictures because we think they symbolise hope and being positive.

For Health and Well-being we have been thinking about and discussing what plants need to flourish and grow.

We remembered the story about poppies in Flanders growing in the mud . We know they need water, soil and sunlight to be able to grow.

We couldn’t believe how tiny the poppy seeds are. There are two varieties here. One looks like ground pepper and the other looks like the pepper you have to grind. It’s amazing to think that these tiny seeds might grow into beautiful poppies.

We have scattered them to see if they grow.

At home some of the class have already been busy planting. We have  peppers, courgettes, radish,lettuce, garlic and sunflowers. Some of these were planted in our gardens, allotments and greenhouses.

We have to remember to keep watering our plants and checking they are getting enough sunshine to grow properly.

Today we worked in pairs to use calculators. We were very excited about using the calculators and we had lots of fun. We realised we couldn’t always trust the answer so we learned to double check our answers by using our mental strategies.

Over the last 9 weeks, we have been working in groups to solve maths problems. We have learned to listen to each other, take turns, share ideas & not give up when it gets tricky! Mrs Belleville has been very impressed with how well we have worked together to solve the problems.

With great excitement we investigated what happened to the water balloons that had spent the night in the freezer.

Some of the balloons were completely filled with ice but, others were part ice part water. This happened if the balloons had been filled with a lot of water.

We cut away the balloons and inside was ice in the shape of the balloon. It was exciting to investigate and observe the ice. There were lots of bubbles and interesting cracks and holes.

As we were doing our investigating the ice was melting with the heat in our classroom.

So, the liquid water had turned to ice then melted back to liquid water again.

We have been focussing on procedural writing in class and we wrote instructions for how to make a sock puppet. We then swapped jotters so we were using someone else’s instructions. We gathered all of our materials then followed the instructions carefully. We are very happy with how our sock puppets turned out and we had fun playing with them.

We talked about what hope meant & how we could represent it in a picture. We used tissue & material to create our pictures and we really enjoyed this art activity. Our pictures have really brightened up our window & made us feel very hopeful!