This week we have enjoyed Science week as a topic.

Activities we have done include:

• floating and sinking and testing different materials
• created a volcano experiment
• making cup phones to test vibrations
• lots of puzzles and games
• modelling with play dough
• drawing self portraits
• reading a story about how the Earth has evolved
• measuring height and length
• size ordering different objects
• measuring fake bones
• jolly phonic songs and singing nursery rhymes
• reading the story Titch and completing linked measuring activities
• lots of small world play
• music, movement and action songs
• colour mixing sweets experiment
• sticking activity completing smallest to tallest
• colour mixing painting
• learning about number bonds to five
• sorting materials into categories such as hard/soft and rough and smooth etc
• making rainbow bracelets and necklaces
• lots of name recognition activities and name writing practice
• making gloop
• investigating magnets, what is magnetic and not
• making balloon rockets
• learning about Purim
• making musical shakers
• creating a fizzy volcano with cola and mentos
• learning about Holi

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our topic.

For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam


Home Learning Activities
Maths - sorting and comparing
Maths - matching and sorting