Green Fingers, Paws and Claws

Our topic this term is 'Green Fingers, Paws and Claws'.  We started our first fortnight with 'Ourselves'.  We wrote poems about the senses, wrote book reviews, made profiles about ourselves, found similarities and differences between ourselves and other living things and carried out an investigation on 'Do the Tallest children run the fastest?'  After measuring ourselves and timing us running, we came to the decision that they do not.  We didn't discover the next Usain Bolt, but Lili was the fastest girl and Kian was the fastest boy.

We also looked at portraits and self portraits by famous artists and drew ourselves and others.  

For the last fortnight our topic has been 'Growing'. We have looked at the ways in which we change as we grow older, the life cycles of a plant, which insects help plants grow in a garden, described amazing plants and used our own ingredients to make a 'magic fertiliser'.

We grew cress seeds to see how quickly they grow and enjoyed the cress with crackers and cheese. We have also planted our own sunflower seeds.

Our topic for the next fortnight is 'Mythological Creatures'.