11 Nov

Where is the best place to dry our washing?

We have been learning about evaporation. We wet different materials and hung them around the school to find out which location would dry them quicker. We had to weigh them before we hung them out and then again after to see how much water had evaporated from them. The materials that were put on…

4 Nov

Filtering experiment

In Y4, we have been carrying out an investigation to see what happens to different solids when they are mixed with water. We used salt, sugar, coffee, rice and baking powder. Some solids dissolved and made a ‘solution’. We tried to recover the original solid by filtering them. We had lots of fun…

7 Oct

Fun with Oobleck

Today, we made Oobleck using cornflour and water. It was really messy but so much fun! Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid which is a another meaning for fluids that change viscosity (how easy they flow). When we ran our fingers slowly through the mixture it acted like a liquid, but when we applied…

7 Oct

Sharing Poetry with Year 1

We have had fun today reading and sharing different poems with children in Year 1. 

7 Oct

Does gas weigh anything?

We have been investigating whether a gas weighs anything. First we weighed different bottles of fizzy drinks.Then we shook them to make them go flat and release the gas in them called carbon dioxide. Our arms certainly ached doing this! We weighed them again to see if they were lighter and they…

30 Sep

Separating mixtures

We have had lots of fun separating mixtures using a variety of different sized sieves. We had to decide which sieves to use and how we were going to separate three different solids such as sand, rice and pasta. We also used magnets to help us to separate the solids, as some of the mixtures had…

23 Sep

What happens to solids when we heat them up?

We have been investigating what happens to solids when they are heated or cooled. We have heated chocolate, butter, wax, ice, jelly, bread and an egg to see whether they changed state and we recorded our results.

23 Sep

Information Hunt

We have been looking at information pages in different magazines and finding the key features. We used post-it notes to identify headings, subheadings, labels, captions, facts, questions and key vocabulary. We are going to use these key features when we write our own information page about the…

16 Sep

Particles in solids

We have been looking at solids, liquids and gases and their properties. We had lots of fun using the Easi-scopes to look at magnified particles in ‘solids that behave like liquids’. 

25 Jun

Classification Keys

We have been using classification keys to identify living things. We completed them both in groups and individually.

18 Jun

Classifying animals

We have been looking at different ways to group animals and have sorted them using Venn diagrams. We discussed lots of different ways to classify them.

18 Jun

Pentominoes Challenge

We have had fun completing the ‘Pentominoes Challenge’. First, we had to make 12 shapes using 5 squares. When we had created the 12 shapes, we then put them on a grid with no gaps or overlapping shapes.