So after 10 days of being in the butterfly tent in their chrysalis, the caterpillars transformed into beautiful butterflies and emerged before being released. Thank you so much for waiting for me to come back to school to release them! What an experience!
As well as a new habitat for bugs in our garden, we have a couple of new habitats in the classroom! First, we put stick insect eggs into a new home in type they will hatch. We will be keeping a close eye on them as the larvae are very small.
We had caterpillars arrive in the post also. They were very wriggly and we all had to work quickly to get them safely into their new homes. The children pushed caterpillar food into the bottom of each cup and then used a clean paintbrush to transfer each caterpillar into its own cup. Everyone has their own caterpillar to watch develop into a butterfly…watch this space for updates!
Today Year 2 started to learn about the impact that rubbish has on wildlife. They ere upset to hear that the RSPCA have, on average, 14 calls a day about injured wildlife due to litter. We decided to raid the rubbish by our big school bins to create a bug hotel in our garden. Last half term they learnt how important bugs are, especially bees, to our world so we need to look after them. We even used bamboo cut down and dried from our bamboo house in the garden. Learning to use a hacksaw was good fun!
Tell all of your big friends that they are welcome at St Vincent’s!
Last half term year 2 enjoyed studying a video about an inventor. After writing his story, the children made it into a puppet show. They had great fun making the set, character and then acting it out.
We have made mini greenhouses ready to grow things in to test them out.
Yoga helped us to stretch out after all of the running we did at lunch time yesterday!
The children said the it is harder than they thought!
Watch this video assembly by Mrs Bell first:
No live lessons; No home learning to do. Today is World Book Day!!
Start by putting on your most favourite pyjamas. Then click below to go to ‘Share A Story Corner,’ read some stories of your choice.
Here’s 2 chapters of The Ice Monster. We will read more tomorrow at 9:30am
Every year we have Steve Smallman come and visit our school near World Book Day. He is an author and an illustrator. He has created videos of characters for you to focus on this year.
Watch the video of him reading his book Poo in the Zoo:
Then watch him create new characters for you to think about for your own stories:
If you can’t get enough, then why not go to Epic. Click on the image to take you there.
Our class code is: wzp5343
Now choose your book and complete the missions:
If you enjoyed the activities you can repeat them again with another book!!
If you have a potato (if not) an apple will do, to make (carve) your favourite character out of the potato. Here are some examples below. 
You can use what you can find in your home.
Listen out for your characters and names in the stories told by Steve Smallman.
Share your reading fun with us. Take a photo of your potato character and of you reading your book, wearing your pyjamas, in a funny or unusual place of your home.
Send your photos in to Mrs Bell, so that we can share your fun on our school website.
Have fun everyone.
How many stars will you earn this week?
