This month the children in Lavender Class (Year 2) have conducted an amazing Ice Investigation!
Linking in with our current whole school project – entitled “Fly Me to The Moon” the children investigated which would be the best material to keep an astronaut cool in space while they carrying out their space walks.
For this experiment the children wrapped ice cubes in a variety of materials including cling film, foil, rubber and bubble wrap.
They then set their timers and waited. Ashton was so excited and said “I couldn’t wait to un-wrap my ice cube to see if it had melted.”
The children were allowed to take a peek after 30 minutes to see how their ice cubes were getting on and then they concluded their experiment after an hour.
Isabel said “We had great fun finding out which was the best material!” and Abigail concluded “We found out that cling film was the best material out of them all.”
We were also very pleased to welcome into school the parents of children in our Nursery and Reception Classes to work alongside their children on some fun space activities.
As well as creating flying saucers and aliens from junk-modelling resources and writing about their creations they also held “Alien Tea Parties” for their parents. The menus were written by the children, and space hats were made and worn as the children served their culinary delights including moon rock cakes; star and planet sandwiches and Pluto pizza.
