What do you know about ice?

Mckee class have spent the week looking at and investigating cold weather and lots of ice came into this.

We were fortunate that we have a couple of frosty mornings and so were able to, once again, draw in the frost and write our names.  We found ice in the  water tray and on some of the toys.

 

 The children donned their wellies and walked on the frost H - "It is slippy", D - "Don't run you will fall over" E - "The grass is crunchy and white", R - "The grass is hard", O - "Everything is sparkly, E - "Jack Frost has been very very busy!" 

All the reception children had a chance to look at ice cubes and use the magnifying glasses to see what they looked like close up. The children discovered that they were "smooth and cold to hold, but close up were full of lines, zig-zags and bubbles." Some of the children recorded what they saw  by drawing on paper, others asked the adults to help write down their findings or to take a photograph.

We tried putting a "blue iceberg" into a tray of warm water to see what happened. A -"Wow, it melts and the water goes blue" and the children tried to predict whether ice would sink or float. The class was split half and half and so were surprised at the result.

J -"Big ice sinks and small ice floats", Z -"It is all cold, hard, wet, solid and slippy", M- "It taste nice" and E - "It melts and makes the water colder".

A few children had been ice-skating, some have watched Dancing on ice and most remembered that we used ice when we made Ice cream. Thank you to E and G who brought in some photographs of an icy lake.