This morning the Squirrels were learning about pollen and seed dispersal. They enjoyed looking through microscopes, magnifying glasses and making seed bombs to plant wild flowers another day.

This week we explored what makes something waterproof. We investigated different materials to test them and then chose a fabric that wasn’t waterproof and tried to make it waterproof with different substances. We used shoe polish, oil, golden syrup, washing up liquid and plastic. In the Forest we chose a material to make a sink and in our play we used a waterproof material to make a shelter. We even did wax resist paintings which were like magic!

Squirrels enjoyed exploring icy puddles on the way to school on Monday so we thought we would try and make icy art on Monday afternoon ready to look at Tuesday morning. The results were amazing. They lasted most of the morning as well! Some children wanted to see if they could make frost angels and others just enjoyed looking at their creations. We even heard a woodpecker. We tried again on Tuesday night but it wasn’t quite cold enough. We learnt a lot about changing materials though. 

We met lots of animals on the farm. We stroked a turkey, looked at a sheep’s teeth, watched a cow lick it’s nose, met the piglets and listened to the sound of 500 turkeys!

We looked for patterns and colours on the animals at the zoo. We liked the sunbathing meerkats!