Science week!

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.

Morning Meeting

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!

Goodbye and good luck!

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...

Five Fluttery Friends!

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?

Working together in Numeracy

The children had the task of using 50cm rulers to measure the kite tails in our outdoor area. This gave them good practise reading bigger numbers as well as developing their measuring skills. Isabelle found a kite with a very long tail, longer even than her 50cm ruler. Tilly was happy to work together and put her ruler next to Isabelle's. The tail was exactly the same length as both of their rulers. 'Its 100 cm because 50 add 50 is 100!'. What very clever Year 1 children!

You can't use lion's tails!

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!

New arrival!

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...