We started this week thinking about different adaptations that polar animals have to keep themselves safe and warm. We found out that penguins have a waxy coat to keep dry, a walrus uses its long tusks to break the ice, and a caribou has fur underneath its hooves to stop it slipping on the ice. We looked in more detail at how polar bears keep warm and took part in an experiment to find out. With one hand we tested to see how cold the water was, then with the other hand in the blubber glove (lard in between two sandwich bags) we tested to see if our hand would stay warm. We concluded that the blubber glove kept our hand warmer.
In phonics we continued to recognise when a word starts with the same sound (alliteration) when we played Tony the Trains busy day game. As Tony the train went around the track he would bump into objects and we had to recognise the sound that they started with.
