We have started our new learning context of Nature Detectives.  We know that plants and animals need water to survive.  We learned about the water cycle.  Some of the new words we have learned are precipitation, condensation and evaporation.  We learnt these words when listening for information, watch an experiment and making a model.  We have also become weather forecasters and are making daily observations.  We are looking forward to learning about the lifecycles of some insects.  We are getting some butterfly eggs and frogspawn to help us learn…watch this space for our updates.   New in our classroom – we have a tent with lots of ‘minibeasts’, binoculars and magnifying glasses.