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!
Father Christmas has sent us an elf to keep an eye on us while we wait for Jesus’s birthday. The class have name him Solan and will keep their eyes out every morning to see what he has done.
Today we have made an apple and pear crumble. Miss Barr had some cooking apples from her Dad’s garden and we’re don’t really like eating pears at playtime.
1. First we washed our hands…we are becoming pros at this now!
2. Then we peeled and chopped the fruit before Miss Barr stewed it for us.
3. Next we made the the crumble topping before sprinkling it over the stewed fruit.
4. It smelt divine when it came out of the oven.
Then came the best bit…the taste testing! We certainly polished the whole thing off!
Today we have decided to move some strawberry plants because they were crowding the planter. The children decided to see if they would grow just as well on the far side of the garden.
Watch this space…
We have worked really hard to make our outside area even prettier.
God said, “See, I have given you every plant, and every tree with seed in its fruit.” …God saw everything that he had made and it was very good. Genesis 1: 29-31
We have been planting lots in our garden.
Can you tell your parents which bulbs you have planted?
Today we will add pansies so we have colour before the spring flowers come through.
A huge thank you to all of the parents that came and the amazing children who explained their art work and how they constructed them. The money donated for the artwork is going towards our chosen Lenten charity St Basil’s. It was a huge success and allowed the children to have a real sense of achievement over their work.
Thank you again
In Science we have been looking at materials. We have looked at different objects; found out the material they are made from and then tested to see if they are bendy, transparent or waterproof.
Can you explain what bendy, transparent and waterproof mean?
Which materials did you test?
What did you find out?
