Our sense of taste

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We have been learning about our five senses this week. Today we used our sense of taste to explore different tastes, such as sweet, sour, bitter and salty.

We talked about how something that tastes nice to one person, might not taste nice to another. We all have different likes and dislikes.

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Labelling game

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It has been fun reading the labels and labelling the different parts of the body with our friends.

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Science Adaptation

Today we have enjoyed learning about how animals adapt to their surroundings.  Ask your child to show you the "rapping" camel on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGg-m8wyY4

 

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Owls' Holiday Homework

Hi Owls,

To get ready for coming back to school on Thursday 6th September and to link in with our topic; Sparks Might Fly, I would like you to look around your house and make a list of any appliances, such as kettle, hairdryer etc, which need electricity to work.

 

See you on…

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Happy New School Year

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I hope you have all had a lovely summer holiday and are all refreshed and ready to come back to school to start our 2018-19 year as Kestrels. Mrs Hicks and I are looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday and hearing all about your summer adventures. 

 

We have all been working hard to…

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Wind in the Willows

In Robins we are really enjoying our new topic.

We have been busy reading Wind in the Willows and all of the children have produced some beautiful writing using adjectives and adverbs.

 

Also this week we have been exploring outside to find mini-beasts and we have been learning about…

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Mini-Beast Hunt!

In Herons this week, we were learning about mini-beasts and their habitats, We went on a hunt to see what we could find and where we could find them!!

 

What mini-beasts did you find? What conditions were their habitats? What is your favourite mini-beast?

 

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We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

Herons really enjoyed their visit to Blackpool Zoo last week. They went to see many different types of animals to look at their features and habitats.

 

What was your favourite part of the trip? What is your favourite animal at Blackpool Zoo and why?

 

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Investigating ancient poo!

As part of our topic and science week we investigated and disecting ancient poo.  We then analysed the contents of the poo as to what period of time the poo came from.  We had a fantastic time and discovered that our poo samples came from the Egyptian period based on the items found in the poo…

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Kestrels Science Week

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This week has been British Science Week. In Kestrels' class we have been Archaeologists. We have been dissecting 'Prehistoric Poo' to find out what humans and animals from different periods in history ate. 

It's a yukky job but someone had to do it! 

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Science

This afternoon a mixture of Owls, Doves and Kestrels have been doing a range of experiments and investigations.  We were using chromatography to split the colours in felt tips to see what colours  had been mixed together to make that colour felt tip. We also looked at how the coloured sugar…

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Bubble Fun!

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As part of our Science Investiagtion Week we are exploring bubbles outside. The children were using hoops to investigate just what we can do. We loved using the large hoops to put ourselves inside a bubble. 

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