Month: May 2018

This week has flown by! We have been super busy with our learning this week, exercising our brains (did you know your brain is a muscle?) and showing off how much we have learned since August.

We finished off last week with a lovely fruity party and a movie with our teddies. This was a treat for winning the school’s ‘You’ve been spotted’ competition a few weeks ago. We experimented and discovered that jam is not made by mixing honey and strawberries. We still have to find out how bees are linked to honey – a mission for us next week!

Before mixing:

After mixing: 

It was a very relaxing way to end the week.

This week we are finishing off with Art. Miss O’Keeffe has been really impressed with all the bee hives and clay bees that have been created by the whole class working together lately so this is also a really nice way to end the week.

Have a lovely holiday weekend everyone! Hope you get to enjoy the sun!

The class has not stopped this week! We have been learning about symmetry in maths:

Continuing on our topic work, we have learned about the different body parts of a bee. We have even investigated what turned out to be a wasp’s nest (don’t worry, we were very safe!)!

As it is Digital Learning Week we took part in a quiz using the tablets with Primary 1. Miss O’Keeffe was winning for a while because everyone was shouting out the answers but everyone learned to keep it a secret soon so she did not win:

We were also lucky enough to watch an Author’s Live event with Ross Collins, who wrote ‘There’s a Bear on my Chair’. He showed us how to draw the bear from the story and our pictures are amazing!

We are finishing off our busy week in style – keep an eye out to find out how!

BEES!!!!!

Today we went outside to plant some wildflowers to get a start on our bee-friendly garden, seeing as we know what seeds need now.

After we planted the seeds we had to water them:

When it is really sunny, we will have to water them again. (Skyla)

We decided to look at the fairy garden while we were out but then we saw some bees!

They were flying on the grass around some dandelions. We read in a book that they like dandelions so we did not stand on them. We caught one in a jug for a moment to look at. He started flying.

We could see:

• his wings
• his stripes
• his legs moving while he was flying
• fluffy hair.

We could hear:

• BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (everyone) while he was flying!

We realised he was scared. (Iyla) So we let him out of the jug. (Cleo) We tipped the jug so that he got safely away from us. (Skyla)

P.S. We did this very safely where there was lots of space. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME, please!

We also saw bees resting on the leaves of the bush:

Un-BEE-lieveable!