We have had such a wonderful week for learning new facts. Please ask us about bees, bats, butterflies and mammals pollinating flowers, chlorophyll chefs making food in leaf restaurants, stomata mouths on leaves and roots absorbing minerals and water.
We have been looking at the germination process today, and Year 1 are great at describing the stages. We should be able to tell you which parts sprout first, second and third. When doing this we watched lots of time lapse videos of seeds germinating. The children were very interested in the idea of time lapse photography, and we used the class iPad to put one together- might be a nice idea/project to try over the half term? Most phones or iPads have the option in the camera app.
Little challenge: how many times can you get the word germinate into a day?! Let me know if you manage more than 5! (I might need to give some pom-poms out!)
In Maths we are adding and subtracting multiples of 10 from other multiples of 10 with lots of chalky fun on the playground! Please keep your children counting backwards (in ones and tens) during the holidays. I have asked them to pester you with this! (You might like to video your child counting backwards in a crazy situation and email it to me for us to watch in class- it only takes one person to actually do it, and that inspires often us all to count at home!)
The fairies have been back to school; Daisy found a letter from them saying they would return... so we shall see if anything magical happens soon. Last time they left a rather beautiful note on our classroom notice board- how very exciting to know that they have been right into our room!
We enjoyed the story 'Jim and The Beanstalk' in the library - clever story with a twist on the traditional.
Thank you children for Show and Tell today... WOW! We learned so much from each other! The children were asking the audience to remember what they were talking about, and quizzing them at the end of the talk! Romily taught the group that plants need 3 things to grow: sun, water and soil. We learned all about the parts of a plant from Lois (who used her initiative by bringing a plant in from playtime!), we learned all about the life cycle of frogs from Cameron R, the lifecycle of butterflies from Sophie and that carrots are actually roots from Maya. So many children told us interesting facts... How to grow sunflowers, pumpkins, beetroot, cucumber, runner beans, broad beans, tomatoes, cress in potatoes, daisies. We compared the leaves of all the different types too. We even had experiments with plants. Cameron F showed us how tulips 'drink' different coloured water and Christopher experimented by germinating seeds in different environments (fridge, cupboard, no water- desert!)
It truly was a master show and tell! Thank you for all the effort at home, and well done boys and girls for such remarkable delivery. We look forward to a few more tomorrow :)
No water.... No light.....No heat
Z
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