As part of our winter topic, the children of EYFS have been investigating ice. In nursery the children have enjoyed playing with ice in the water trays and the small world area, we even tried some frozen paints! We used describing words looked at how the ice was changing throughout the day. The children of F2 have been very hands on too. We have investigated freezing and melting, describing the changes that we have seen and thinking about why the ice is melting. We than experimented with freezing different things such as orange juice and jelly to see if those would freeze too.
Then disaster struck: we found three Stick Men stuck inside blocks of ice! We thought carefully about how to melt the ice to rescue them. We knew that we needed heat, so placed one on a radiator, one under a light and one outside. The children predicted which block of ice would melt first. We are happy to say that all of the Stick Men were eventually freed!
