Kits News - February 25th 2022
This week our topic book was Mix it Up! by Herve Tullet. The book offers a brilliant interactive story where the reader has to shake, rub and squash the book together to mix the colours on the pages. The book has been a great platform to encourage us to getting messy and to explore which secondary colours are made when you mix red, yellow and blue.
The children were very excited to be able to have the opportunity to explore this for themselves in Art. The Kits were able to choose two different primary colours and their challenge was to mix them together with the paint brushes or their hands to see what would happen! Everyone loved getting messy in this experiment and we were all very excited to see what different colours were made!
In our Science Focus Time, we continued to explore mixing and in particular to experiment with what happens when we mix different materials such as water, salt and ice with different colours. The children all used their fingers to sprinkle some salt onto a large ice block and then squeezed coloured water over the top and watched the effects it made. They were amazed to see that the ice cracked, and the different colours blended together. We used this experiment as an opportunity to make predictions about what would happen and we also discussed why we got the reaction we did, talking about how the water and salt melt the ice.
We have been continuing to focus on Animaphonics throughout the week and it’s been wonderful to see the children becoming more and more familiar with the actions and sounds which accompany the phonemes.
During our Literacy Focus Time, we introduced the ‘M’ phoneme and the children loved holding their hands up to their chins like a meerkat and saying “Mmmm” as they pretended to smell a range of ‘m’ foods such as mangoes and muffins. We looked at different objects which start with the ‘M’ phoneme and related it back to ‘M for Mummy’ too.
Our Role Play Area this week has been set up as a Doctors’ Surgery and the children have been very attentive to each other and their teachers as they pretended to administer medicine and wrap bandages around sore limbs. In the role play area we had x-ray photos and real first aid books and it provoked many conversations about what our bones are and how doctors help us feel better.