In expedition this afternoon, we shared different thoughts about what we can do with beans. The children named various types of beans. We noticed beans can be different colours and shapes. Then we made some delicious beans on toast and discussed how beans are healthy for our bodies. We used our knife and fork skills to cut up the toast and before we ate “fork to stick and pick, knife to cut and scrape”. We of course tidied and cleaned up after ourselves! #LovePlover
Category : Science
How have our plants grown and changed?
We have had lots of discussion today around how our cress and beanstalk have grown. We discussed how they looked the same/different, and noticed both plants have leafs! Looking at the cress we couldnāt see the roots going down, but on both, we could see the shoots going up.
Mrs Williams
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What do plants need?
The children shared some great answers and recognised that we need to care for plants, putting seeds in soil, letting them have space to grow, exposure to air and water, sunlight and warmth. #LovePlover
Planting cress
Over the last two days we have been planting cress seeds. We drew faces onto our yogurt pots so that the cress can grow as hair. We are so excited to see how our cress will grow and change.
Mrs Williams
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Parts of a Plant
Yesterday we looked at the different parts of a plant. We learnt how a plant grows from a seed into a seedling, then sprouts into a stem, grows leaves and the bud then opens to create the flower. #LovePlover
What do plants need to grow?
Today we have been scientists and learnt what plants need to grow. We discussed if we need the same/different things to help us grow.
Shout out to Aaron this morning who said āplants and children are both living thingsā.
Mrs Williams
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Am I an insulator or a conductor?
We have been working hard to investigate different materials; finding out if they are insulators or conductors. Then we have used our scientific knowledge to work as writers and produce a full scientific report.
Keep your curiosity growing folks and the conductors will keep the electricity flowing!
Mrs Haycock
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We know how switches affect circuits!
It was so good to see the excitement and pride in everyoneās faces when they were able to build a simple circuit with a switch to turn a lightbulb on and off! The pictures show how the children felt about their learning much better than any words I could use, so take a look at the slideshow belowā¦
Well done everyone. Iāll make scientists out off all of you before the end of this expedition! I hope you are enjoying the subject as much as I do. #ScienceRocks!
Mrs Haycock
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Brushing Teeth Experiment
Over the weekend the children were given a dental disclosing tablet – a fun and important experiment for children to understand and see the important of brushing and keeping all their teeth clean! What a cool toothbrush Ada has, it flashes red for 2 minutes so she knows that she has been brushing for the correct amount of time. Check out some of our gleaming smiles!
Planting in Y2
In Y2 we have been checking in on our planting experiments from last week. The seeds we watered had started to grow but the one without sunlight did not look very healthy. The ones we planted without water have not done anything at all. The children’s predictions were correct, plants need water, sun and the correct temperature to grow healthy and strong.
It was great to see some children’s cress plants come back into class so we could see how they had grown. Well done to our green-fingered classmates!
Mrs Lewis
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