This afternoon, as part of British Science Week, we had a visit from Mrs Coe's pet millipede and Gary the giant African land snail.
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We have been marking Science week with a celebration of Science which creates cool experiments. This afternoon we went onto the playground and had a go at making colours dance in milk, making eggs float and even watching a Coca-Cola and Mento eruption! We have also launched our school 'Eco-team' who have set a poster competition asking children what looking after the environment means to them. More details of this competition will be shared in next week's Year 1 newsletter. Today we had a visit from Toni from the Sports Partnership who taught us how to play a new game called new age kurling. This is a game that is usually played at the Winter Olympics on ice. We learnt some skills using the kurling stones and then had a go at playing some games. The knurling stones had wheels on the bottom so they rolled really quickly across the hall floor. We had to kneel down, put our hands under the handle, pull it towards us and then push it towards the target. The aim of the game was to get our stones onto the white circle in the middle of the target. We showed really good team work by using our stones to push some of our friend's stones closer to the target to score more points. There were lots of giggles in Science when we learnt about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. We had to use our detective skills to see what was inside the pretend play doh poo samples to help us to decide which animal they might belong to. Sample A was from an omnivore. It had meat, bones, leaves and seeds inside. Sample B was from a carnivore. It had meat and bones inside. Sample C was from a herbivore. It had leaves and seeds inside. Today we learnt about the beautiful African sunsets. They are beautiful orange, red and yellow sunsets due to the vast open sands in Africa. They are so beautiful that lots of people like to visit Africa to capture these sunsets on the camera and to paint them just like we did. Today we had a visit from Toni from the Northamptonshire Sports Partnership who taught us how to play a new game called Boccia. This is a game that is played at the Paralympics where people who have a disability play sports which are adapted for people whose bodies may have a bit different to ours. We learnt some skills using the Boccis balls and then had a go at playing some games. The balls were weighted so they rolled really quickly. The white ball was called the jack ball and the aim of the game was to try to get our ball as close to that ball as we could. Toni was really impressed with our listening and teamwork skills. This week we have been learning about African animals and some of the ways that they are adapted to survive in their hot habitat. We looked at photographs of African animals that had coats or skin that helps them to blend into their surroundings and environment. This is called camouflaging and is one of the ways that some animals are adapted to live in their African habitat. We then chose and used appropriate colours to colour in our butterflies so that they would be camouflaged and blend into a spot that we had chosen in the environment of our classroom. We had lots of fun this afternoon playing real life Where's Wally and finding the 12 hidden pictures of him around the school. As we found each one, we looked at the number on the back of it and marked the location where we found it on an aerial plan of the school. We worked really hard as a team and had lots of fun. |
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