Blog by Tag: investigation
A message by boat
As part of science week the whole school are doing investigations to pass on a message. The Ducklings explored sending their message across water. They had to create a boat and think about the materials they would need for this and how to get their boat to move. Once across the water a friend…
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investigation Understanding the World Science week 2023
Where the Wild Things Are
Our new topic is ‘Out of This World’ and we started our new topic by reading the book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. In the story Max puts on a wolf costume and gets sent to bed for causing mischief. In a dream he goes on a journey to the ‘Wild Place’, where he becomes king of the wild…
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Huff and Puff Investigation
The Ducklings have been pretending to be the big bad wolf and have been investigating which objects and materials they can blow and make move or fall down.
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London Bridge
After reading the nursery rhyme London Bridge, the Ducklings investigated building a bridge that would be strong enough to carry a London bus! They used all sorts of different junk materials to test out their ideas.
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Which material is best?
This week we have explored which material would be the best for a window in our homes.
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Skittles colour experiment
The Ducklings loved watching what happens when they made a repeating pattern with coloured sweets and then poured water on!
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Colourful Bubbles
The bubble wands have been out this week and the Ducklings and Little Chicks have loved exploring all of the rainbow colours that are in each of the bubbles that they make.
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Colour mixing
Outside the Ducklings have enjoyed using the painting window to explore mixing the colour on.
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Finding the colours of the rainbow
The Ducklings have been exploring in the garden to try and find a natural item for every colour of the rainbow!
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Exploring colour mixing
The Ducklings have been investigating colour mixing by overlapping coloured cellophane sheets and shining light through them.
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Helping Marissa the Mermaid
Marissa the Mermaid has lost some of her scales and now her tail isn't waterproof. She needs help from the Ducklings to find a waterproof material to cover her tail until her scales grow back. The Ducklings have been investigating which materials would make the best waterproof cover.
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Man over board!
The Ducklings have been testing the pirate ships that they built to see if they could float. They also investigated to see how many pirate passengers they could safely fit on board before capsizing!
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