Understanding the World ELG: People, Culture and Communities.

We would use it to introduce questions such as how are suds and bubbles are formed, what shapes can bubbles be, why do bubbles burst and what happens if you add more detergent to your running tap? For a mess free bubbles activity, see our bubbles STEM at home page. Although there is a great deal of fantasy- the town covered in suds and animals floating in bubbles- this book can be used to introduce scientific concepts and investigations. This book is 32 pages long and has a rhyming sentence per page. For balancing activities, take a look at our balancing STEM at home page.Īn entertaining rhyming story about what happens if you use too much bubble bath when you are washing the dog.

We like the way this book shows that lots of lighter birds are needed to balance a heavier bird, then challenges the reader to work out how they could balance birds of all different sizes. We love the way the book introduces the concept of half to describe how many birds are on each side of the tree when they are balanced. The book has 34 double pages, with one or two sentences per double page. It builds on the balancing concepts found in “Balancing Act”, by using numbers to represent how many birds are on each side, showing that these numbers must be equal for the tree to be straight. In this book a tree bends if there are more birds sat on one side than another. Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally. Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity

We love the part when too many animals get onto the see-saw and the consequence of this! For balancing activities, take a look at our balancing STEM at home page. We also like the way that the book shows that lots of lighter animals can be equal in weight to one heavy animal. We like the way balance is introduced using symmetry – the pairs of animals that get on each end of the see-saw are identical in shape, size and weight. Two mice are perfectly balanced on a see-saw, but what happens when a chameleon wants to join in with their game? Will the see-saw stay balanced as more and more animals get on each end? This book has 29 pages with two sentences or less per double page.

Yucky worms book