Kingfishers Archive
Kingfishers Gymnastic Skills
Linking with the topic on robots this term, in P.E the children are developing their gymnastics skills. This week they have been balancing, travelling, mirroring and matching.
Investigating Materials and their Properties
Kingfishers have been busy exploring a collection of properties by applying different forces and then recording their results. Our next step is to find out how these properties make materials suited to different uses.
Making Silly Putty
As part of their work on exploring the properties of materials and forces, Kingfishers made silly putty. Throughout the activity, the properties of their mixture changed and they were challenged to think of words to describe the properties. With their successful putty, they explored which forces they needed to apply to change the shape.
It was great fun, if a little messy!!
If you want to have a go at home, you need 60ml of washing up liquid and 45g of cornflour.
Kingfishers Music Autumn 2021
This term the Kingfishers have been learning about pitch, rhythm and dynamics in music. They have explored tuned instruments and have been improvising with creating different rhythms.
