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Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

The nursery children have been enjoying the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes.’

The children recognised lots of familiar characters in the story from our Fairy tales topic and learnt some new character’s such as Wee Willie Winkie and Chicken Licken.

We learnt a new rhyme.

Listen to the rhyme at home. Can you remember the words?

We made shopping lists for the correct ingredients to make pancakes. Can you remember what we needed to make the batter?

Did you make pancakes at home? Send photos to nursery@holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk

5F – Science

In Science, we have been looking at the different theories around a geocentric vs a heliocentric system.

In the past, scientists thought that the planets orbited around the Earth (geocentric). We now know that the planets orbit around the Sun because it has a greater gravitational pull – because it is huge!

Today, we made models of our Solar System. We chose which fruit would represent which spherical body according to the size. We then put them in the correct order from the sun. Finally, we drew lines to represent the orbit of the planets around the sun.

We then wrote explanations to go alongside the models:

5F – Science

In Science, we investigated why we have night and day.

We then explained how it works in our own words:

Can you explain to someone at home why we have day and night? Challenge: can you explain why we have seasons?

Investigating reflection

Today we investigated reflection. We made an experiment to notice how light is reflected.

We noticed that the angle of incidence (the light from the torch) was equal to the angle of reflection.

Investigating circuits

Today we investigated different types of circuit (series circuits and parallel circuits). We talked about how each circuit is made and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each type.

Nursery – We’re going on a Bear Hunt

The nursery have been enjoying the Bear Hunt story and have been immersed in lots of new language.

Here is some of the learning in action.

We made long wavy grass and practiced our scissor skills.

Tomorrow we are going on a bear hunt around the school. I wonder how many bears we will find?

Listen to the story at home. Can your child join in with the repeated parts of the story?

5F – Science

Today in Science, we conducted an enquiry into different methods that we can use to separate mixtures of materials.

First of all, we considered what would happen to the mixtures when we tried the different methods of separation. We then planned out each step.

We decided to use a magnet to separate the paperclips from the rice, filter paper to separate the sand and water and a sieve to separate the flour and sticks.

We were a bit stumped by the water and salt solution but when we learned about evaporation, we knew what we had to do!

We poured the liquid into bowls and left them in a warm place. By the end of the day, we could see salt crystals beginning to form on the surface. Let’s wait and see what will be left when we check them tomorrow!