Ants in our class

Friendly ants have come to visit our class.

We are trying hard not to spill sweet drinks or leave bits of food around the classroom, but when the ants come to visit anyway we have a lot of fun with them.

We catch them in pooters, 

move them to the ant hotel,

 feed them on bits of fruit and give them water to drink.  We love to watch them digging tunnels.

We are learning lots about our 6 legged insect friends!

Our senses: Sight

We have 5 senses

So we can looks, taste, touch smell and see.

Today we talked about our sense of sight.

We wondered how we could manage to walk around if we couldn't see.

We tried walking with a stick

and getting a friend to lead us.

We talked about Braille writing (we saw this already and we think it would be difficult to read all those dots with our fingers)!

We also talked about our sense of taste.

We had a look at our friends tongues and saw the taste buds that help us taste all our foods.

We will try tasting a big variety of fruits and vegetables next Tuesday.

We are looking forward to trying some activities with our other senses tomorrow.
Here are some fun senses songs to learn:

Planting seeds

Today we planted cress, beetroot, runner beans and sunflowers.

We are going to look after them well.

We are looking forward to seeing them growing.

Floating and sinking

We had lots of fun guessing and testing

Ants in our class

We have had tiny visitors to our class.

The little ants like to visit us.

We suck them into our bug jars using pooters (see the photo above).

Our class ants are now in their hotel.

We hope they are happy here.

We feed them little bits of grapes and apples, and give them a little water.

We can't wait to see the tunnels they will build.

More Greenwave

Today was a nice day.

We took a walk in our yard and just outside our school to see the newly budding Horse Chestnut leaves.

We also looked at the buds on the Ash tree.  We can't see any leaves there yet.

How sound travels

We are learning about how sound travels.

Sounds are vibrations.

Sound is a type of energy.

Sound waves travel when molecules of air bump into one another letting the sounds travel through the air and into our ears.

Sounds don't travel in space because there is no air there to let the sound travel from the source to a spaceman's ears.

Greenwave, following the signs of Spring

We have been watching out for the signs of Spring.

Here are some Spring species we have found so far:

Primrose 18th March 2014

Hawthorn  23rd March 2014

Horse Chestnut  26th March 2014

Ash  5th April 2014