Water, water everywhere

Look at all of the fun we had learning outside during our science morning. We asked lots of interesting questions and used all of our senses to investigate change.

 

 Gloop

 

 Metal detectors

 Space sand...sand that you can mould under water!

 Indigo fabric and sea life printing

 Hello Bob! Mrs Smith is a geologist and a palaeontologist. We learnt that 'ology' means scientist. Mrs Gent is a zoologist. Mrs Smith has a huge collection of Belemnites, she taught us all about these ancient fossils and how they are formed in sedimentary rocks. We looked at her tools and had a go at digging for fossils ourselves. We found all sorts of interesting fossils including ammonites and a dinosaur tooth. We also found a fossil of a leaf. We learnt that the Earth is in layers and diamonds are very deep down. We looked at the precious stones and asked lots of interesting questions.

 Mrs Davey visited us in her dry suit. She taught us all about her hobby. She is a diver! She talked to us about her regulator and how she has to very slowly resurface after being under the sea. Mrs Gent talked to us about how fish move in the water. Mrs Luke told us that she wears a wet suit when she swims in lakes. We learnt the difference between a dry and a wet suit and how they keep you warm.

Mrs Davey has seen lots of fascinating sea life on her diving adventures including a whale shark and most unusually a toilet!

Nepalese Day...

Thank you to all of the parents who shared with us a little taster of their Nepalese culture. We all had a wonderful morning and really enjoyed the food and dancing.

 

 

 We enjoyed having a Tika put on our heads and hearing how brothers give these to their sisters to say that they will look after them forever.

 We watched a video of some Nepalese dancing and joined in. The girls showed us how to move our hands.

 We learnt how to say Namaste.

 We all tried some of the delicious Nepalese food..Alloo Dam and Momos. Ask us what we thought of it. The teachers loved it!

Do fish have fingers?

Today was another exciting day in FS2. At snack time we had a special treat, we were able to try sea food sticks. Some of us thought these were very yummy.

 

 

When we came back from lunch Mrs Lewis and Miss Sullivan said they had a surprise for us. In Foxes class we tried to guess what was inside the bag by smelling it. Lots of us thought there were smelly socks hiding inside.

 

But it was ...

 

a trout and some prawns.

 

We were able to have a good look at the fish and touch them to see what they felt like.

 

 

 

Freiya picked up one of the prawns and started singing and making the prawn dance. There were lots of shrieks of excitement and joy and children coming over eager to join in.

 

 

 

Mrs Gill soon stopped as she walked past, she told the children about the fishes gills and a funny way to remember this new word. Just remember her surname! Meanwhile in Foxes class Logan was demonstrating how a fish uses its gills to breathe.

 

 

  Olivia encouraged her friends to touch the trout, she told them to touch the mouth " the teeth are spikey, not sharp but tickly".

 

We then used our sketching skills to draw the fish that we could see. We remembered how to shade with our pencil and use other techniques such as cross hatching.

 

Wyatt was reading a non- fiction book with a friend. They read a sentence about over fishing, Wyatt then told Miss Sullivan that "over fishing is just selfish and just horrid because people are killing fishes they didn't do anything wrong. We don't need to eat that many fish. Over fishing means take away too many sea animals, I mean sharks might not have enough to eat!"

 

 

 

 

All the children in FS2 were super scientists and awesome artists this afternoon. And impressed all of us with their observations.