Blog by Tag: science
Our trip to the Garden Centre
The children and adults alike had the best time today at The Plant Place Garden Center. The children took part in a quiz,searching for clues, got to plant seeds and scatter then into the new meadow, and learn about different types of plants and flowers. The children were amazing walking to and…
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visit science outdoor learning
Planting Green Beans
Little Chicks listenend to the story Stitch.
Little chicks have planted French beans we are discovering what plants need to grow. We have five different pots with seeds and varied components.
- Seeds, soil, but no water.
- Seeds, soil, water, placed in the dark.
- Seeds, soil,…
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science experiment Growing plants and seeds
Labelling of parts of a plant and Outdoor Learning
Little Chicks have been learning about the parts of a plant. They have named the parts of the plant and wrote the words onto their picture.
Labelling parts of the plant.
Mrs Hicks Outdoor Learning
Little Chicks have been taking the left over food to the composte bin. Litttle…
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writing science Growing plants and seeds
Planting bulbs
Continuing on from Science week last week and our topic of 'Growth', the children have been planting bulbs outside today. Just like our sunflower seeds at home, we will be observing growth and changes over time.
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Sensational Seeds
The Ducklings have been finding out the answer to the question - 'Are all seeds the same?'
They have been looking at different seeds from fruits and vegetables as well as different gardener's seeds.
They have been planting cress seeds and will watch them grow and change.
They have used…
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science Growing plants and seeds
Humans growing
During science week we have been talking about how humans grow and change. We have also been trying to find out the answers to some of the questions we thought of....
Can people with bigger hands, hold more?
Are the tallest people always the oldest?
Do we all grow at the same rate?
Do…
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Science Week - Growing Frogs
Once again, frogspawn has made its annual appearance in our garden tough spot, just in time for our science week about the theme of 'Growth.'
The children will watch with interest over the next few weeks to see how it grows and changes. We have learnt a new word this week, 'metamorphosis.'
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science Life cycles Understanding the World
Science week - Trees
As part of Science week we went outside to explore the trees in our school grounds and to find the answers to the following questions:
How can you tell if something is from a tree?
Which objects are not part of a tree?
How many types of tree do you know?
What comes from a tree? Does…
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science Understanding the World
STOP DROPPING LITTER! Event The 3Engineers
Little Chicks participated in a life feed which taught the children about recycling, how we can keep the planet clean.
The importance to put litter in the bin and keep our beaches and ocean clean free from rubbish.
The 3engineers have produced a book to show how we can keep the…
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Science Week
Little Chicks are learning about Science week, today we looked at growth. We looked at plants, animals, humans and buildings and how they grow.
We measured all the Little Chick to see there growth from six months ago and documented on the door.
Follow link to view gallery and…
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Handa's Surprise
Little Chicks are learning about warm climates as part of this learning we have read Handa's Surprise we have looked at the different fruits and animals in the story. We looked at the setting in Africa and will learn about the country throughout the week.
Throughout the week Little Chicks will…
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reading pshe science Understanding the World story
Help to melt!
This week the Ducklings were called upon to help some polar animals that were trapped in ice.
They had to investigate how they could melt the ice the quickest by adding water, salt, sugar or flour to the ice.
The Ducklings made their predictions first and then observed the changes to the…
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