Beautiful butterflies

Before school on Friday Isabel and Pia visited Room 1 with these beautiful butterflies. We looked closely at them and discovered that one of them was a male (boy) the other was a female (girl). We have learnt so much about monarch butterflies since we have had the butterfly house. Well done girls.

Science experiment

Watch how this group shares the job of pouring the vinegar into the volcano. Well done boys.

Science experiment

Watch another group making their volcano explode!!!

Science experiment

We worked in small teams to make the volcano and watched to see what would happen when we mixed baking soda and vinegar together. Learning can be so exciting.

Science experiment

This week we have continued to explore what happens when we mix two or more things together. We made a volcano out of sand then put baking soda, dye powder and vinegar together in the crater and waited and watched. Wow the fun we had.

We found that when we mixed these things together we got a ......

Bubbles by Maziyah

Maziayh really enjoyed blowing bubbles and watching them pop.

I like lollipops by Amanda

Amanda has just started school and it was her turn to be videoed. We decided she should recite one of our favourite poems. Well done Amanda

School Assembly

On Friday we hosted the school assembly with our buddy class - room 8. Thank you room 8 for helping us - we think you are a great buddy class.

Clever photos by Mr Barnes

Mr Barnes captured these photos last week and sent them to us in an email. We think Mr Barnes is very clever to take such detailed photos we could see the butterflies wings and the dew drops on the chrysalis. Well done Mr Barnes.







This is the beautiful butterfly that emerged.

Bubbles by Hyder

Listen to Hyder reading his story about bubbles. Well done Hyder

Weekly update

This week we put sunblock and water together to see what happened - would it mix, separate or react?


We all got to shake it - when we shake it we say 'shake it, shake it room one is cool' then we pass it on to the next person.


We then tried adding sunblock to a fizzy raspberry drink - we thought the sunblock looked like long white worms!!!!


We got to shake it !


The results were quite different - come into our room and have a look at each of the bottles.

Bubbles by Jamie

Listen to Jamie tell us about blowing bubbles at school.

A beautiful butterfly in room 1

This week we were lucky enough to have a beautiful butterfly emerge from its chrysalis in our classroom. Mr Barnes had put it in our room so we could watch it emerge but that butterfly was way too clever and emerged without even telling us!!! We looked up to see it drying it's wings. At the end of the day Mrs Rennie-Younger had to let it go because Mr Barnes was concerned it might set off the alarms in the night if it flew around the classroom!

Bubbles by Lily

Listen to Lily tell us about the bubbles she blew.

Butterfly house - a butterfly laying eggs

At lunchtime some of us watched a butterfly laying her eggs on a swan plant in our butterfly house. The butterfly house is such a great place to visit.