We started this week by finishing off lots of experiments. We had to use our senses to taste different crisps and decide what flavour they were. But Miss Davies and Mrs Mackay hid the packets they came from so we didn’t know what flavours they were. We filled in a sheet to record our experiment. Then we did a smelling experiment. We had to guess what will hidden in the cup. We recorded our findings for this experiment too.

This week we are learning about Plants and Animals. In the classrooms we have a vet and a garden centre. We have compost in the sand tray so we can practise planting. We did a mind map for our areas to help us decide what we need.

Our Garden Centers have needed a lot of work. We needed to made signs and put up lots of flowers. We have a cutting activity where we have to use catalogues to cut out things for our garden to help us design it. We all like the sheds and swimming pools.

In our water trays we have a pretend frog pond. It had pretend frogs and tadpoles that help us to play and learn about the life cycle of a frog. Try out this website.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/2008-09/cynnal/discovery/eng/life_cycle_2.html

We have been listening to lots of stories about animals too.

P1a1 are very lucky because they have two new class pets. They are goldfish. A gold one and a black one. The class voted on names for them and decided on Daisy and Rocky. We are looking forward to caring for them.

In Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone we have a pet shop and an X Box Kinect with Kinectimals game. We all got the meet the five cubs who are in the game and used the Active Expressions to vote on who our favourite cub is. We choose the black panther to be our P1 cub. Watch out for more information about what we get up to with him as we play and care for him.