Science, Colour & Geography!

Over the last couple of weeks in pre-school, the children have been investigating all things to do with science, geography and the world around us. The children took part in a fun picture floating tin foil activity. They drew their own shapes and people on to some tin foil and watched in amazement as the pictures slowly came away from the foil once water was slowly poured on to their pictures. Alba had drawn a person and Ari thought it was so funny that, “There is a dancing man!” and called all of the other children over. “Come and look, the man is dancing, how is he doing that?” Sophie and Imogen were busy drawing some shapes whilst Olivia and Tristan were drawing their own ‘dancing men’.

The children then went on to investigating an underwater firework experiment. Isabelle spotted the first bubble that had popped and encouraged her friends, “Guys, if you bend down, you can see under the water properly and you can see the beautiful fireworks!”. Sammy had noticed that there were different colours in each bowl and suggested, “What do you think would happen if we mixed the colours together?” Zac said, “I know! It would just make a big brown messy colour”. Carrying out the investigation, the children very quickly realised that this is exactly what the outcome of the colour mixing was. Zac was very proud of himself, “See I told you that would happen, I know because I have done colour mixing before”. After the oil, food colouring and water were mixed together, Isla had noticed there was a swirl in the water and called out, “It’s just like a real tornado, I saw one of those on my TV”. Reegan asked, “What’s a tornado?” To which Isla replied, “I don’t know how it happens but it looks super cool”. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning how a tornado is formed. Rowan very quickly sped his arms in to a spin and laughed, saying, “Look, I’m making a tornado with my body”.

The children were busy in the construction area building their own landmarks from around the world including the Great Wall of China, Big Ben, the Taj Mahal and the Statue of Liberty. Jonathan was very inquisitive of what the Eiffel Tower was and where we could find it, whilst Alastair was telling his friends that he had seen Stonehenge when he had gone to see his grandparents with his family. Lana also make her very own Eiffel Tower building using the coloured blocks and went on to correctly count the blocks from 1-12. Well done!