Missed photos!

Here are some photos from our Easter Parade.

Spring Bulbs Update

Nearly all of our daffodils flowered and we sent off our data to Cardiff Museum.  We were so proud when they told us we came Highly Commended. They sent us all a certificate and pencil for our hard work. We practiced reading a thermometer and a rain gauge as well as learning about plants.  We really enjoyed ourselves.

K'Nex

As part of our Science Week we went to the Historical Centre for a K'nex workshop. The aim was to make and electronic book of a mini-beast that we make out of K'nex. We used iPads to create a book, firstly we drew a picture of our mini beast and labelled it, made our mini-beast out of K'nex and photographed it. Next we inserted the photograph into our book and labelled our photo. We added 5 fun facts about our mini-beasts, took a selfie and made a video. We had a very busy morning but we thoroughly enjoyed it.
 

 

Spring Bulbs

During the summer 2014 the National Museum of Wales sent us plant pots, weather station equipment and bulbs (daffodil and crocus).

They needed our help.

They wanted to see how weather can affect the growing of flowers.  They asked us if we would adopt and name a crocus and a special daffodil called the 'Tenby Daffodil', this daffodil is in decline so they wanted us to help them keep them growing.

We planted the bulbs in October as asked by the museum and put the outside.

We have been keeping weather records and sending the information back to the museum every week.  As a thank you they have sent us a gardening voucher for £10 and we will buy some lovely flowers for our garden in our little yard.  After a very cold and sometimes rather wet winter our bulbs have finally grown and some of the crocuses have flowered. We have entered this important information on the museums website. We are very pleased with our progress so far.

Autumn Term 2014

As part of our topic we have been lookig at Our Community. We went for a walk around the area to look at different buidings and facilities that are local to us.  We saw the sorting office and factories, the car park and train station as well as the rugby club.  We enjoyed going inside the Transport Police room on the tain station.

Our Garden Centre Visit

On Tuesday Years 1 and 2 visited Woodland Walk Garden Centre.  We looked at the different flowers and trees and hunted for objects.  We all went into Hoots Cafe for a welsh cake and a drink and we had a lovely time.

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'.