We’ve had a lovely start to science week. On Monday we enjoyed a STEM challenge investigating marbles. We investigated how far we could get a marble at the end of the tube to travel by rolling another from the top. The children thought about what we could change to make the marble travel further. They decided we could roll bigger marbles down, a few marbles at a time and change the height of the starting point. The children then had activities around the classroom they could choose to do related to making marble runs. We had a marble run, making marble runs with duplo and making a marble run with cardboard tubes.
On Tuesday, we took a trip down to our school woods and went on a minibeast hunt. We thought about what we might find before we went down. Despite the wet conditions, we still managed to find spiders, slugs, millipedes, woodlice and worms. We also enjoyed a talk from Amelia’s mummy, Mrs Simons, who told the children all about her job as a pharmacist and read a lovely story about a girl visiting a pharmacist.
We had an exciting start to Wednesday morning when Keira’s daddy, Mr Wade, came to talk to the class about his job as an engineer. He explained what engineers do and we watched an exciting video clip of what the future might look with the help of engineers. In the afternoon we continued our work on seasonal change, looking at spring. The children thought about some of the changes we are starting to see and then had a go at careful sketches of daffodils, making lambs and adding blossom to our class tree. We are looking forward to our class trip where we will hopefully see some lambs.
Thank you so much to Mr Wade and Mrs Simons for coming to talk to the children. They really enjoyed it.