Year 2DK - Protect the Bees

As part of Earth day 🌎 last week Year 2DK learnt about Bees 🐝 and why it is so important that we protect and look after them. We took part in a art tutorial to draw a bee and made flowers to explain why it is important to look after them. 🐝 🌸 🍎 We also tried some Honey! I was blown away with all their amazing drawings and flowers. 😃I can’t wait to put them on display. Well done Year 2DK! 👍

Yellow class- Why it's important to wash your hands

Yellow class learnt about how washing our hands is the best way to stop germs from spreading. We thought about all of the things that we touched today — from pencils and toys to the toilet and door handles. Maybe we blew our nose in a tissue and then went outside to dig around the dirt.

Whatever we did today, we came into contact with germs. It's easy for a germ on our hand to end up in our mouth. We thought about how many foods we eat with our hands. We can't wear rubber gloves all day long, but we can wash our hands so those germs don't get a chance to make us or someone else sick.

Have a look at the science experiment we did today that involved pepper (germs), water and soap. When liquid soap is added to pepper and water, the pepper moves away from the soap just like using soap removes germs from your hands.

3JI Mirror Experiments

In Science today we experimented with how light reflects off shiny surfaces, such as mirrors. We discovered that when mirrors reflect an image it appears to be reversed. 

Firstly we wrote messages on the whiteboard and only using them mirror, we had to work out what they said. Afterwards, Miss Irvine set us the challenge of walking along a wavy line in the playground, but we weren't allowed to look at it! We had to look at the reflection in the mirror and work our way along it! We found this enjoyable but tricky! 

 

Year 1 - Zoolab

To end our science topic on a 'wow' experience, year 1 were visited by Katie from Zoolab.
We took part in an animal handling workshop. Katie spoke to us about a variety of animals such as millipedes, cockroaches and frogs. We were then able to hold and stroke the animals if we wanted. We learned some new information during the visit as well as refreshing our knowledge of animals!