Learning about Jane Goodall
Today in Science we have learned about Jane Goodall, whose an animal scientist called a conservationist. Her work with chimpanzees has helped us learn many new things about chimpanzees such as the fact they eat meat and use tools. She discovered chimpanzees behaviour is similar to humans and had…
Butterfly life cycle
Wow! It was very exciting when we came into school and discovered that our caterpillars have now entered the next stage of their life cycle! They are in their cocoons and so we had to transfer them into the butterfly net. We talked about how long they might be in their cocoon for and realised that…
Super scientists!
Working as scientists, we set up various experiments around our classroom to see what plants really need in order to grow into healthy plants. We placed some cress seeds in sunlight, some in dark places, watered some and didn’t water some of the cress seeds. We’ll observe what happens to the…
Planting cress seeds
Today we had great fun planting cress seeds! We talked about the different things that plants need to grow before we began. Then, we created our own name labels to stick on our pots and went on to follow step by step instructions in order to plant the cress seeds. We talked about the most…
Our new members
Ducklings have had a very exciting week this week! We welcomed 5 new members to our class - Colin, Kelly, Kim, Benjamin and Betty our real life caterpillars! We can't wait to watch them grow, change and experience the life cycle of a caterpillar first hand!