Nature Club ECA

Hi all !

Thanks for signing up to the Nature club ECA. The children are very comfortable helping each other in class. They have been investigating many different aspects of their school environment and other aspects of school,  such as weather, shadows and recycling.

The sessions will take a child-led form further into the term. The children are not short on stimulation and interests when it comes to nature, and are keen to explore as much as possible. 

Why do shadows get longer? What time of day are shadows at their longest?

Which shadows have you noticed recently? 

The children have made recyclable envelopes, explored seeds and their flight, noticed birds and listen to animal sounds. Next week we shall be making kites to observe how the wind works.

See you soon !!

Swimming ECA

This week in the EY swimming ECA we practiced swimming with our heads underwater. We had to take a deep breath and then Mr Andy helped us.

Storybook art 17th Nov 2014

This week in ECA we read the story of Tyrannosaurus Reg and then painted our own dinosaur, made dinosaurs out of play dough and even did some drawing. 

Story book art 10th Nov 2014

This week is book week and I thought it would be fun to share one of my favourite stories. ' The Gruffalo.' Take a look at some of the great gruffalo puppets the children made. 

Storybook Art 3 November 2014

This week we enjoyed reading the story of Rapunzel and talking about where she lived and what the tower might have looked like as well as what Rapunzel looks like. The kids loved listening to the story and even joined in with making their own Rapunzel crafts. Take a look at some of the great crafts. 

Fun Science wk 2

Our next experiment focused on our sense of sight. We discovered how our eyes reflect light to create pictures of the world and looked at different kinds of eyes in the animal kingdom.We learnt that many animals cannot see in colour at all but, luckily we can!

We used the "magic milk" experiment to explore colour mixing and made some beautiful patterns.

 You can try this easily at home all you need is full fat milk, food colouring and liquid soap.

First we added a few drops of different coloured food colouring to our dishes of  milk and observed how the colours spread on the surface. The colours sometimes touched but didn't mix. 

 Next, we dipped cotton buds into the liquid soap and gently touched different areas of the coloured milk. The class were amazed by the way in which the soap repelled the milk, forcing the colours away from the cotton bud and into each other and causing them to mix. 

Everyone was fascinated by this experiment and happily tested this colourful reaction over and over again!

                           

Fun Science pt 1

 We started off our science class by talking about what science is. We thought about how we explore the world around us using our different senses. We began the  first part of our five senses theme by looking at the sense of Touch. The class were asked to use only their hands to feel around in the paper bags and guess what was inside. They enjoyed touching and squeezing the objects and there were some fairly accurate guesses. We used words like "slippery" "hard" "soft" "smooth" "powdery" and "fluffy" to describe the textures. The items were :- sand, pebbles, feathers, flour, cooked spaghetti, glue and ice. Noodles was the easiest to recognise but no-one could work out what the bag of feathers were!

  Caiou taking a sneaky peek at the flour!

After we had finished guessing the class suggested we add all the ingredients and mix them together, a sort of experiment in texture!