Our Reception Puffins absolutely loved investigating magnets in their science time this week. The group began by sharing what they already knew and then watched Kit & Pup to see what else they could discover. Reception learned three new words - attract, investigate and predict.
The Puffins then enjoyed sorting items into ‘magnetic’ and ‘not magnetic’ groups and talked about why the objects were magnetic to not.
Jacob explained brilliantly that, “the superhero is magnetic, it’s just too heavy to pick up.” A great idea which he then backed up with some excellent reasoning about what it was made of.
Loughlan enjoyed doing some independent investigating around the room with his magnet, he was keen to share his findings: "You see this Miss Holmes, it looks like wall, well it’s not, it’s pipe and it’s made of metal!”
Ayden and Ethan were fascinated by the magnets when they repelled each other, rather than attracting. They are looking forward to exploring why that happened next week.
Mrs Allison and Mrs Morgan were lucky enough to be part of the investigation too and both had a brilliant afternoon with the Puffins.
We look forward to exploring the topic further!