Science activity

Look at what happens to salt when you mix it with water.

Talk about what you observe with your grown-up. 

Discuss what the word dissolve means.

Then test some different things to see what happens when you mix them with water.

You could test sugar , coffee , sprinkles , oats , rice , gravy granules , flour , etc.

It is really important to talk about what you notice and observe.

Year 2 children try and draw a table to record your results. Look at the last picture, it shows a way that you could record what happens.

Amazing Australia

Today our animal is a bird that can be found in Eastern Australia, called a  kookaburra. You might know today's song about a kookaburra.

Below are some short videos to watch and some activities to choose from.

Year 2         (Year 1 you can do this also,  if you would like) 

Everyday you are going to take a page in your exercise book and make a fact file about the animal of the day. You need to have a title , a picture of the animal with some labels and at least 5 facts. You could use bullet points for each fact or write it as a paragraph of writing. 

You could include the animal's habitat , what it looks like , what it eats , what animal group it belongs to, what its baby are like etc.

Look below to see how to draw a kookaburra and the labels that you could use