27 Sep What’s happening in Reception – Week 4
This week, the children in Reception learned about the force that is created between magnets. They carefully observed what happens when two sides of a magnet are close together and noticed that when the magnets want to be friends they attract each other and pull themselves together, however when they do not want to be friends they repel each other and push themselves apart. They also investigated the materials that magnets like to be friends with and found lots of metal objects around the room that the magnets would pull themselves towards.
The children then used their new knowledge to paint Elmer a new colourful coat, using only paint, a paper clip and a magnetic wand. They had to carefully guide the paper clip across the paper plate, using the a magnet wand to control it, and then cover it in paint before spreading it onto Elmer’s coat! Take a look at some of their creations…