Goodbye Butterflies

Last week our butterflies emerged from their cocoons. We enjoyed watching them fly around our butterfly garden for the week. 

We set them free on Friday in the school garden. 

Grandparents

We are learning about grandparents in history. We are learning about how their lives were different to our lives now. Maeve and Zoe brought in photographs of their grandparents to show us. 

Butterflies

All five of our butterflies emerged out of their cocoons. We were so excited to see them flying around the butterfly garden. We gave them some orange slice to eat.

Fruit and Vegetable Day

Today we had our Fruit and Vegetable Day. Everyone brought in their favourite fruit and vegetable to share and taste. 

First we laid out all of the fruit and veg on a table. 

We then sorted into different categories. We put all the fruit together and all the veg together. 

Then we decided to sort them by size and by colour. 

We also used our mathematical skills to find out which fruit and veg were the most popular and which were the least popular. 

Carrots and corn were the most popular vegetables and celery was the least popular. Kiwis were the favoured fruit while figs and blueberries were the least favourite. 

Our favourite part was definetly trying the fruits and vegetables. Múinteoir Sinead was so impressed we tried lots of new foods too!! 

 Our delicious vegetables 

Our tasty fruits. 

Vegetable Seeds - Week 3

We are amazed how well our vegetables are growing! Look how big our tomatoes are now! 

Our pumpkin seeds are doing very well too!!

Ladybird Writing

Today we learnt lots about the ladybird in science today. 

Here are some of pieces of our wonderful writing; 

Seeds - Week 2

Our vegetable seeds have really sprouted up over the bank holiday, especially our pumpkin seeds and our cress seeds. 

Caterpillars - Week 2

Our caterpillars are in their cocoons now! 

Sow & Grow

Make sure you keep up to date with our "Sow and Grow" blog. We will be posting pictures and updates daily on the progress of our fruit and vegetable seeds. 

Read more at  

 https://sowandgrow.innocentdrinks.ie/week-1-in-merlin-woods/

Mini Beasts

Our new theme for May is mini beasts. We will learning about their habitats and characteristics. 

We have two insects in our investigation area - caterpillars and stick insects. 

Seeds - Week 1

Our seeds have grown very fast after just one week! We think the carrots are growing the quickest! 

                   

Bug Doctor

Last week a Bug Doctor came to our school. He brought really interesting bugs and reptiles with him! 

We learnt about spiders and tarantulas. 

We got to feel a scorpion. 

We got to hold a really big millipede. 

We also saw a really big beetle too! 

We all loved the snake. We got to hold and touch the snake. Some of us were brave enough to wrap the snake around our necks! 

Watch a short video on beetles from the Bug Doctor! 

Caterpillars - Week 1

Our caterpillars are getting really big after just one week! 

Sowing Seeds

Today we finished planting our seeds. We had a great selection of seeds to choose from.

Before we planted our seeds we had a look at the different types of seeds. The pumpkin seeds looked really different to the carrot seeds. They had different shapes, colours and sizes. 

We were so careful when planting the seeds because they were very small! We made sure to give them water so they will grow. 

We can't wait for them to start growing!