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The Very Hungry Caterpillars

Some new class mates arrived in the playroom last week – some very hungry caterpillars!

We have been learning about life cycles and living things. The life of a butterfly has four stages:

Stage 1 – the mother lays an egg

Stage 2 – caterpillars hatch

Stage 3 – cocoon developed

Stage 4 – a beautiful butterfly emerges.

Currently, we are at stage 2 and our new friends are growing by the second – they are very hungry!

Thomas – “All they seems to do is munch, munch, munch!”

Maisie – ” I can’t wait to see them turn into butterflies – we will let them go in the secret garden.”

Sophie – “I think we should name them.”

We will update you when they move onto stage 3!

Planes, Trains and Automobiles!

This term we are learning about Transport and different types of vehicles. The boys and girls have created a ‘Braidbar Wheels Garage’ to develop their understanding of this topic through imaginative play. Most recently the children have been sorting vehicles into different categories and creating tyre tracks with different media.

Here are a few things that we want to find out about:

“How do submarines sink under water and float?” – Andrew

“I want to learn how to draw a truck.” – Christian

“How do helicopters fly?” – Olivia

Zoolab Visit

We were all so excited when Rachel from Zoolab came to visit us on Friday. She came with a special bag filled with lots of interesting creatures. We thought it was really funny that the spider was called Sophie as we have two Sophie’s in our class but definitely not as hairy as our new eight-legged friend!

We made sure to use ‘kind hands’ when touching the mini-beasts and remembered to wash them thoroughly before we had snack.

Thank you Rachel and Sophie!