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.

Caterpillars - Week 2

Our caterpillars are in their cocoons now! 

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! 

Stick Insects

We are so lucky to have new stick insets in our class. We got them from Michel, the Bug Doctor. We had lots of fun looking at them with the magnifying glasses. 

Maciej, Robert and Nikita researched all about stick insects on the internet. They used a great website called "Britannica" to find out what the stick insects will eat and where they come from. They leant lots of interesting things! 

We have placed our stick insects in a special insect garden. We love learning about insects! 

New Caterpillars

We have five little caterpillars growing in our classroom! 

We have named four of them so far, Mario, Joe, Emma and Rosa.

We will watch them grow into beautiful butterflies over the next few weeks in their butterfly garden. 

Amazon Rainforest Foods

We learnt more about food that comes from the Amazon Rainforest, such as vanilla, cacao beans, coffee beans, cinnamon and coconuts. 

We had fun trying to guess what each of the foods were. We used our sense of touch and smell to guess. 

The coconut, vanilla pods, cinnamon sticks and coffee beans had really strong smells. 

Tomatoes and Strawberries

We planted the first of our fruit and vegetables today. We learnt what three things they need to grow- sunshine, soil and water. 

First we made sure we had a nice sunny spot for our plants to grow. They need lots of sunshine to grow tall. 

Once the soil was ready we placed the plants carefully inside be pots of soil. 

We will make sure we water them every few days.

Science Investigation - How daffodils get water

Today we were investigating how daffodils drinks water. 

First we set out all the equipment we needed. 

For his investigation we needed jugs of water, food colouring and daffodils. 

Next, we made our predictions. 

Then we began the investigation. 

First we added the water and the food colouring. We picked green and red. 

Next we put the daffodils into the jugs of water. 

We made sure we had a "control" in our investigation. We will compare our investigation to the control over the next few days.