The children’s fascination with ice continued this week and the frosty weather allowed them to set up their own ice investigations in the outdoor area. They put some water in a tray with some dinosaurs to make a ‘frozen dinosaur land’, filled containers/ moulds with water and then left them over night to see what would happen. The children were so excited when they arrived at school the next day, some children had to have a sneaky peak at what had happened before they went to their classrooms! We talked about why some of the water in the bigger or deeper containers hadn’t turned into ice yet and we looked at the variations in thickness of ice. The children were amazed to learn about how frost and colder weather turns water into ice. We learnt about why some containers had thicker ice and some containers only had a thin layer of ice. E.g. The dinosaur land only had a very thin layer of ice because the tray had been left under a covered area.
This week’s Maths focused on finding one more and one less using numicon and number lines. We also learnt about how to complete subtractions using counting objects and number lines.
During our Topic discussions we thought about the different feelings characters from the film Inside Out. The children thought of times when they had felt like each of the characters and we discussed that it is ok to feel different emotions and the importance of knowing what to do when they are feeling sadness or anger.
The children participated in their first guided reading session this week, using a picture book. The children learnt about a blurb and answered oral comprehensions questions about the text. They enjoyed making predictions about what might happen next. It was wonderful to hear the children talking about the pictures in the book with a partner.
