LO:  To understand that we can learn about light by observing shadows

EYFS:

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: The World

30-50 months: Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.Developing an understanding of …changes over time.Can talk about some of the things they have observed.

40-60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: Technology   30-50 months: Knows how to operate simple equipment (TORCH).

The children each cut out an owl template to create a shadow puppet. In small groups they explored how to change the size of their shadow puppets.

The children in Class 1 have been exploring how we see and have discovered that they can’t see in the dark.

The children could all see their Compare Bear’s colour really well when the lights were on.

When the lights were switched off they couldn’t see what colour their Compare Bear was, they couldn’t even see their hands!

Year 1

Science:  To understand dark is the absence of light

EYFS:

LO: To know that we can’t see in the dark and that light helps us to see

UTW – W: Make observations and explain why some things occur

This afternoon children in Class One explored the school grounds finding lots of different smells.

They came up with lots of different words to describe the smells in the environment.

Today Table 2 had a go at identifying the mystery smells.

We talked about how are sense of smell can warn us if something is dangerous to eat or drink and how we should never drink anything that we don’t know what it is.

Can you tell by looking at the bottles what they contain?  Our sense of smell helped us identify the liquids.

Reception children have been very busy learning their letters and sounds today.  They have been revising all the sounds taught so far.  Today they used the new interactive board to play a game where they had to make the word by choosing the correct phonemes.