We have been very busy this week doing lots of investigations to learn more about materials. We wanted to find the best material to keep teddy dry! The children stopped me putting three sheets of fabric over teddy..."That's not fair! The plastic only has 1!" So we have learned about fair testing too.
We then used what we had learned to make teddy an umbrella. They are on display in the classroom for parents to see during Science afternoon.
Sophie-We greet each other around the circle.
These are our different greetings...
Kai- we can Hi-5 each other or shake hands or just give a nice smile.
Meadow- Bonjour
Skye- Ko nee chi wa!
Justin - Ca va?
Blue- Labas!
Kyle - Guten tag!
Jake -Ola!
Poppy - Good morning!
Jayden - Chest!
We think that this is a good way to start our day!
Today was the day that we released the butterflies! They'd had lots of practise flapping their wings in the net and had enjoyed nectar from the flowers and the sugar water so they were prepared to go and have an adventure of their own...
It was very exciting watching them flying around our outdoor area!
Some of them didn't want to leave...
All five butterflies have hatched out of their cocoons!
Here is a close up picture of one butterfly who has been drinking the sugar-water from the sponge!
They are practising their flying skills so that they will be strong enough to fly away to find flowering plants when we release them.
I wonder if they can remember being a caterpillar? What do you think?
In Numeracy we discovered that you cannot use lions tails to measure accurately! Winnie the Witch (Ellie) had been invited to a party and she had to wear a hat that was 3 lion tails long. But when she arrived no one else's hats were quite as tall as hers!
Winnie had used the lion sitting on the table, which is very big! Everyone else had used a smaller lion with a shorter tail.
Wizard Blot gave Winnie a spell to sort the problem out...
Wing of bat,
Fur of cheetah.
Turn lions tails into centimetres!
We discovered that centimetres are always the same size, so they would be much better to measure with! So, we got busy and used our new skills EVERYWHERE!
We are very pleased that we have learned NOT to use lions tails! We are very confident with cm!
I checked the cocoons this morning, still no sign of anything happening!
Just half an hour later and there were shouts of 'We've got a butterfly! There's a butterfly!'
Look who is here...
This is our display in our role-play beach area. We have all the words that we might need during our topic. To start our work we wrote a fact about the seaside or a question that we'd like to find the answer to.
...and just to answer Sara's question about if there will be enough ice-cream for everyone, I phoned Tracey the ice-cream lady at Sutton-on-Sea and said that we would need to buy about 100 ice-creams when we go on July 2nd! I think she is also buying a big box of flakes to go in the ice-creams!
When learning something new we spend time practising our new skills in different situations. When we are really confident we are given a challenge that will show that we have 'mastered' that new skill.
We have been learning how to test containers to see if they can hold more or less than 1 litre. Today the children were given the challenge of finding containers that Biff and a Chip could take to the beach. They only want containers that can hold 1litre or more.
The children filled a jug up to the 1litre mark and then poured it into each container...
If it could hold the litre or more, the children gave it a tick on their record sheet.
We all showed Mastery of Numeracy Awesomeness!
In our Morning Meeting we discussed all the jobs that need doing around the classroom from giving out book bags to changing the computer programmes. Everyone was very keen to take responsibility for a task so we now have a long list outside the classroom to show who is responsible for each job.
We discussed how important it is that the leaders are polite and friendly while they are doing their jobs, because if they were very bossy we wouldn't feel like doing as they asked!
Overnight, the caterpillars wriggled out of their skin and this is what was underneath! They are now cocoons and for the next 7-14 days something incredible will be happening inside. What do you the it could be?
We enjoyed using the ICT suite last week. All the new lap tops are now installed and we think they look very smart! We have been learning to use a programme called Simulation Explorer. We are able to explore the effect of making different choices in a simulated situation.
This week we explored the effects on a pond habitat of changing the water level and temperature.
If the water level and temperature were not ideal the poor frog died! This is the benefit of using a simulation programme, no real frogs were harmed during our experiments!
When he had explored the water level and temperature, we then moved on to Level 2 which included a third variable, plants. We all enjoyed seeing the results of our explorations!
I came down this morning to find the caterpillars all hanging down from the lid of the tub. What do you think will happen next? Leave a comment below!
