Butterfly house - caterpillars galore

Finlay and his family visited the butterfly house this week and took these amazing photos of all the wonderful caterpillars happily munching on the swan plants.

Who would have thought that we would have had so many caterpillars in our butterfly house - just imagine what the butterfly house will look like when all those caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies.

Thanks Finlay and your family for sending through these photos.

The hen by Finlay

Listen to FInlay read his interesting narrative about a hen. Well done Finlay

5+ a day

November has been 5+ a day month. We have been trying to eat 5 servings of fruit and vegetables each day. We made posters to convey a message about what we had been learning. When we made our posters we had to make the following decisions -

The direction of the paper (landscape or portrait)
The background colour of the poster
The message on the poster
What fruit and/or vegetables we would draw
The colour of our handprint
Where on the piece of paper we would put the fruit and vegetables.

You see more goes into making a poster than meets the eye !!

At Friday's assembly some of us wanted to show our posters - We are so proud of them.

The crab by Finlay

Finlay wrote this narrative and read it to the school at our school assembly earlier in the year. He was also keen to share it with all of you who read our class blog. Listen to the way Finlay is reading with expression - Enjoy

The monkey by Finlay

Listen to Finlay reading his story about a rather naughty monkey. What happened to the monkey?

How to make a whirligig by Finlay

We wrote instructions on how to make a whirligig. Listen to Finlay read his instructions.

Our windmills by Finlay

Listen to Finlay reading his story about the day we flew our windmills.

A butterfly and a moth by Finlay

Finlay enjoyed writing this report about the difference between a moth and a butterfly. Listen to all the facts he shared.

Autumn leaves by Finlay

We had a great deal of fun in the autumn leaves. Listen to the poem Finlay wrote.

A caterpillar by Finlay

Listen to Finlay read the information report he wrote about a caterpillar. He used a mimio activity to label the caterpillar. Well done Finlay

Minibeasts by Finlay

Earlier in the term we wrote about minibeasts. Listen to Finlay read his work.

Table tennis

Last week we had a session learning about touch rugby, this week we had a session learning about table tennis. Below are some fun filled video's of our session. Enjoy

Here we are learning to balance the ball on our rackets.


Here is Anthony concentrating as he balances the table tennis ball on his racket.




Here is Finlay hitting the ball into the basket - success is wonderful.

Snails by Finlay

We have learnt some very interesting facts about snails. Listen to Finlay reading his information report about a snail. He took the photo of the snail and put labels on it using KidPix. Well done Finlay

Minibeasts

Here are some more of the minibeasts we drew on KidPix

Living and not living things by Finlay

Listen to Finlay read his explanation of the difference between things that are living and not living.

Swimming By Finlay

Finlay enjoys swimming. LIsten to him reading his recount of swimming at his grandparents pool. He drew the image on KidPux

Great problem solving Finlay

Finlay has a number of toys he'd like to share with us but we have a school rule that no one is allowed to bring toys to school. To over come this problem Finlay got his family to take a photo of him with his toy. He brought the photo to school and told us all about his remote control car. We then took a photo of Finlay holding his photo - how about that!!!

T. shirts

After reading the T. shirt book we have been bringing in our favourite T. Shirts to share - it's great to see what everyone likes to wear at home. Thanks to Gabriel and Terina who took the photos.

Look at us

We have been learning how to use the computer programme KidPix. We drew ourselves very carefully and then used the paint tool to colour in our picture. For most of us it is the first time we have used KidPix. Look out for more of our pictures throughout the week.