Class Three had a fantastic day at White Scar Cave and the park at Ingleton. The children learnt all about limestone rock formations and fossils on the tour of the cave and really enjoyed looking at the stalagmites and stalactites. A picnic followed and then a play in the park at Ingleton.
Last week we went into the community garden to identify living and non living things!
Our topic for this half term has been plants. This has been a great opportunity to carry out lots of experiments, making prediction, setting up fair tests and then recording our findings. We loved finding out about the function of the stem and testing to see what a seed needs for healthy growth.
Class 2 had a fabulous day at Castle Head on Monday. They made a mini mammal trap, investigated what they could find in owl pellets, a mini beast hunt and much more! They were able to experience hugging a tree with a blind fold and really think about what adjectives to use to describe it. They played games with different seeds and found what plants need to grow. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch anything in our traps!
The Gruffalo’s Child has been our our book of the week and has prompted us to explore light and shadows. We have talked about different light sources and that shadows are formed when something blocks a light source. We had lots of fun in the classroom using the light box and puppets to reenact the story. The beautiful weather on Wednesday allowed us to experience shadows outside in the playground, where we drew around each other as well as some of our big dinosaurs!
We experienced a wonderful, action packed day on Wednesday, when we visited Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Lancashire. This supported our learning from the autumn term about migration and Chris, our guide for the day, taught us all about the migration of swans to the UK. We were able to see the swans up close during feeding time and even learned a flamingo dance! The highlight of our day however was a visit to see the otters!
This half term we have been learning about the different senses that we have and which body parts they relate to. We got to use our senses by touching, hearing, seeing, smelling and tasting things in the classroom!
What a lovely sunny afternoon! The perfect day to get outside and enjoy the nature around us 🙂
Today, Georgina from the CDEC visited us to teach us about nature journaling. The first thing we needed to do was look very closely at the world around us. What kinds of biodiversity (different types of plants and animals) could we find?
We started with plants, finding all sorts of wildflowers and grasses in the green spaces near us – the community garden, the play park and the field. Then we had a look for living things – a wonderful variety of bugs, spiders and minibeasts.
Our task was to then look as closely as we could. What did we notice about their looks? Their smells? How they moved? We recorded these observations through drawing and writing, creating pages filled with our observations.
I certainly enjoyed myself – try it in a green space near you and see what you can find!
Class Three enjoyed a visit to Heaves Farm last week. The weather was kind to us and we only got a little damp on our walk back to school! The children learnt all about the animals, welfare and feeding on our visit. We had chance to watch sheep shearing, a sheep dog demonstration, hold some chicks and taste some delicious eggy bread. Some of the children learnt about sorting sheep in a race and others learnt about how honey is collected and other fascinating bee facts. We all had a fabulous day, thank you to everyone at Heaves Farm and the Westmorland County Agricultural Society for organising the day.
Thank you so much to Megan, Isla’s Mummy, who came to talk to Nursery and Reception children today about her job as a veterinary nurse. The children were fascinated to explore and learn about her job and enjoyed getting immersed in some practical role-play activities which helped them to learn about x-rays, animal body language, medicines and bandaging.
