All week we learnt about symmetrical shapes and lines of symmetry.
We made *stain glass window” pictures of symmetrical minibeasts. Then we made symmetrical insects on the painter programme on the computer. We also went outside around the village, looking for symmetrical shapes in the real world.
Some of us also looked in catalogues and cut out symmetrical objects to make posters.
The Noughts and Crosses game in the playground.
The frog bin in the playground
Drain in the playground
Nursery railings
Plants in the playground laid out in a symmetrical way.
The glass pattern.
Gates at the Braco Hotel
The War Memorial and plants around it are laid out symmetrically.
The horse above the art gallery.
Braco Clock Tower-We even discussed the times that were needed to be truly symmetrical. We realised the clock figures didn’t make the face symmetrical.
Spider in the Bath Click Here Hopefully above is a link on You Tube to the story we were watching on friendship.
Make sure Mums and Dads know you are on You Tube please.
Remember to singalong!
We had a great time when Zoolab visited us today! ☺
We were taught all about the different types of minibeasts and were shown different ones.
As suspected some of these were not so mini! A lot of the children were fearless and wanted to hold everything. This included a giant snail, a giant millipede, a tarantula, a hermit crab, stick insects and a snake ( not a minibeast as it has a backbone.)
Please enjoy the photos and see how brave these children are! I have downloaded quite a lot so those who held the minibeasts could see themselves.
P1/2/3 have made a wormery to see how the worms mix the soil and make compost.
We went outside hunting worms and found it very difficult to find any because the ground was so dry. One was brought in from home and so we put it in our wormery. To make the wormery, we put layers of sand and soil into it and then added some peelings on top.
Hopefully we will soon see the worms mixing the layers up.
We were out in the school garden and over in the park looking at different habitats of minibeasts. We were looking at which minibeasts are found in the air, under stones, on bark and in the soil. We found a lot of minibeasts including bees, earwigs, woodlice centipedes, slugs, snails, moths and flies.
Miss Lamb also brought in for us a Bug hotel which her partner had made for us! We will be able to keep checking on this to see what minibeasts use it as a home.
Lee from the SSPCA came to visit us and told us all about how litter is damaging to animals. She showed us pictures and videos of animals harmed by litter but also how they were rescued and helped by the SSPCA. As a class we then made posters to encourage other children not to drop litter.
We had the pleasure of looking after two giant snails in our classroom. These belong to Kirsteen who is the childminder to a couple of our children in our class.
We had to keep the tank damp by spraying it daily with water. We also had to feed them with cucumber, which they apparently love. Kirsteen is going to let us see them again in the new year when they will be bigger. So watch this space. a big thank you to Kirsteen for letting us looking after them!
