Creating mini beasts

After analysing mini beasts last week and seeing how they are made up of different segments, with legs and antennae, we created our own today!

We spent time looking at some of the plants growing at the back of the pitch and decided we could pick a very small amount of them without destroying the area. After that we worked in pairs to create some mini beasts on our display board.

After playtime we each created our own mini beast by gluing natural materials on to a piece of black paper. I am sure you will agree they look fabulous! Once we were happy with our own mini beasts, we could explore and create another one on the grass. What a busy day!!!

 

Predicting, Exploring, investigating and analysing

What an interesting morning we spent outdoors today.

We started off by doing a little research indoors on millipedes and centipedes before heading outside and predicting the minibeasts we might find.

After that we explored the area we were working in to find where the minibeasts might be.

Once we knew where to look, in pairs we collected a mini-beast in our boxes and, using the magnifying glasses on the boxes, we analysed them and how they moved.

Our most amazing find today was this little amphibian we managed to catch as he* hopped across the grass. His heart was beating very fast so we reckon he was quite scared, that’s why we let him go again after a minute or so in captivity. (*Mrs Kelly checked it out and he is most likely a male, as the little circle bit covering his ear, just behind his eye, is bigger than the size of his eye, which in most frog species indicates it’s a male)

Finally we recorded our findings by drawing a diagram and labelling it.

Play today

We had a few opportunities to play in amongst our busy day!

Some of the girls enjoyed playing in our class cafe and created posters and a menu. I’ll be there on Wednesday for macaroni!

The boys were fascinated by paper planes and made their own to test out.

Some also explored shape and made different models and buildings for our car area.

Lots of tens outdoors

Today we travelled outside counting up in tens. We learned and remembered that when we add or subtract ten from any number that the unit digit doesn’t change. This really helped us become more confident in counting up and down in tens.

We then moved on to placing numbers within 100 on to a giant number line. Before rounding these numbers to the nearest ten.

Finally we had lots of fun sorting out the numbers and playing some rounding games together.

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