Finding out about Ice with Queen Goldenlight and King Icicle

We read the story

The Winter King and the Summer Queen.

We are helping the Magic Fish find out about ice, so he can help the fish in water.

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We were amazed when we read their letter to us.

The children gasped in surprise when the letter was addressed to the boys and girls of Bowhouse Nursery Class.

We put our ideas and plans on our learning tree.

We started to look around us at the snow and ice outside in the Nursery Garden.

“It was like icy and cold.”

Abbie

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Cyra enjoyed helping to fill up bags and balloons to make ice, this is what she recalled about the experience.

“1. Putting water in the balloons. 2. Water inside the balloons. 3 All icy out of the freezer.” Cyra 13/1/10

“Five snowmen. They got melted one, two three, because the sun melted them. “ Finlay

Already the children are very interested in ice, making connections with the weather we are currently experiencing and have some idea of the impact of cold and hot.

Making connections needs to be supported by encouraging extensions to their thoughts. The children link the sun to melting the snowmen, but why it does this is not so clear for some.

We need to further demonstrate the impact of something warm on ice. A hot water bottle with blocks ice might be interesting. 13/1/10

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Liam thought juice would be a good thing to freeze. So we tried this, with wonderful results. If only all science experiments had such tasty results!

Some of the words the children used to used to describe the ice lollies and the experience included.

“ Orange, cold, dripping, yummy, crunchy, fantastic, juicy, smooth, changing colour, slurpy, good, tasty, melting because it’s getting warmer and a cold mouth.”

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When we told the afternoon group of children about making ice lollies. They immediately thought it was a great idea. We are going to eat them on Thursday. Watch this space to find out what they children think of the lollies.

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The morning group of children have become interested in finding out about how different things will freeze. So far we have tried juice, water, grapes, strawberries and milk. Now we are trying washing up liquid and cooking oil. We await the results.

The experiments have been a good opportunity to encourage the children to make focused observations and predictions. Mums are asking for the results as they come back to nursery too.

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“I was going to pick my cousin Rachel up in the snow. “

Erin

We talked with the children about why we wear a hat and gloves. This is what they said.

“To keep you warm.” Mitchell

“They make you cosier.” Alice

“To keep the hot in.” Lee

We have been finding out about ice in lots of ways

13/1/10 Keep watching to see more about our icy explorations.

Bowhouse Nursery Team