Autumn time!

Room 5 is loving Autumn time and even though it is getting cold, it means we can have fun with the leaves!  We have used the leaves in our school to do lots of counting forwards and backwards.  We have also used them to do some sketching.  Our favourite thing to do with the leaves was play in them!!  We were so patient when we sat and talked about leaves changing colours, but then look what happened!

Step 1- Talking about the changes in leaves.

Step 2- Touching the leaves and feeling them crunch between our fingers.

Step 3- Throwing the leaves and watching them fall and tumble down.  It's raining leaves!

What a fun time we had.

What Room 5 already knows about 'changes'.

This term we are learning about Changing State.  We have made a thinking chart about all the things we can think of that change in some way.

We talked more about the way the leaves change in the Autumn time. We even got to play in the leaves. Then we started talking about how the seasons change from warm to cold.

Ms Jones helped us to make a collage of the different changes that happen between the warm and cold seasons.  Here are some of the changes that we see.

We have learnt about 2 new words today:

Liquid and Solid.  Here are some things that are liquid and solid.  Miss Lee made some jelly to show us  how a liquid can change into a solid.  We went to the staffroom kitchen and got to watch.  When Miss Lee finished mixing the jelly crystals with hot water, she put it in the fridge.  When we take it out in the morning, we hope it has turned into solid jelly!

We wonder what it will look and taste like!