The Rising 3’s have loved learning about emergency vehicles this month. We watched clips about what happens inside an ambulance and then took turns to become paramedics helping our friends and their babies. We used shapes to create our own fire engines and discussed how different emergency workers help us for different problems and matched each one up to the correct vehicle.

We have also looked at construction sites and how their tools and vehicles help to create or demolish builds. We have used diggers and tools in the construction tray to scoop up, move around and pour. We have used numbers to count how many tools are needed in the tool kit and then discussed how and why grown ups use them too.

This month we explored heat and how hot air balloons use fire to fly, we even carried out our own bottle and balloon experiment with cold and hot water to explore which temperature made the balloon inflate. We had fun decorating our own hot air balloon with repeated patterns and we also had a go at weaving too.

Next we took part in a variety of activities that taught us all about kitchen appliances and how they work. We incorporated pancake day and enjoyed heating up our own pancakes, adding our favourite toppings and eating them up! We discussed the safety aspects along the way too. We used play dough to create a variety of foods which the children thought hard about how they would cook them in the home corner, then served up their food and practised their cutting skills with knives and forks.

Rising 3’s kicked off their new topic by learning all about robots. We looked at all different types of components such as electricity, nuts, bolts, and coding with the bee bots. Some of our favourite activities were using the dark den exploring different kinds of switches such as buttons, switches and sliders, we had great fun with the magnets working what was magnetic and non magnetic and also creating our own songs using the music bots.

As we moved on, we looked at aeroplanes and airports, it was great fun to become flight attendants and passengers, using our baggage scanner and weigh scales for our luggage and creating our very own passports and boarding passes.