Our class and Miss Gilligan's class recently visited the Fairy Fort in Renmore. It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed the walk. We ran around the Fairy Fort three times and each of us made a wish beforehand. It was great fun.

Our class wormery

We recently made a class wormery by putting several layers of clay and coloured sand in our wormery. When this was done all we needed were the worms!! Many thanks to all the mums and dads who helped out by digging for worms at all hours for us!! When we got our worms we placed them in our wormery and we watched them closely to see if they would move around in the soil. We kept a careful eye on the various layers of coloured sand to see if they had moved and sure enough they had!! The worms had also made little burrows in the soil. This was a fun experiment.

Releasing our butterflies

Here are some photos of our caterpillars in their cocoons. They were in their cocoons for four weeks and then we released them on Wednesday 15th June.It was so wonderful to watch them grow from tiny caterpillars into beautiful painted lady butterflies.

Oh the beautiful cherry blossoms!

We painted these cherry blossoms recently. We got a chance to practise our colour mixing by mixing a little white paint to red paint to make pink. We discovered that we could make various shades of pink depending on the amount of white paint we added to the red. If we wanted a very dark shade of pink then we only added a little white paint and if we wanted a light shade of pink we just kept adding more white paint and mixing it with the red until we got a shade we liked.

Lever boys and girls

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We have been learning about push and pull forces. We had lots of fun deciding if it was a push or a pull force which caused something to move. We even had a giant tug of war game and we all had to pull with all our might!! Aftrerwards for our art lesson we made cool lever boys and girls. We can move their arms and head up and down by pushing the lever upwards and pulling it downwards.Cool or what!!!

Planting Beans

Yesterday we planted some Broad Beans, Runner Beans and Dwarf Beans (we remembered the famous Birdseye add on TV and when our beans have grown we will finally be able to eat them and then we can see if we will turn into runners, dwarfs or become broad as a result of eating them!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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We have been learning a lot about the lifecycle of the butterfly and as a perfect accompanyment to this we read Eric Carle's fabulous book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'(we also watched the video of this). We loved the story and even though the caterpillar was a very greedy little fellow we decided that he was a very likeable character nonetheless!! We also made a data chart of all the things the caterpillar ate on each day and then we finger painted our own very hungry little caterpillars.