Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Cross country
Yesterday we had a great experience running the school cross country.
Everyone had an awesome time participating. There were some very puffed children at the finish line though.
I was very proud of the behaviour of the Year 1 children. They encouraged and cheered for the other children as they ran.
Congratulations to Max who came 2nd for the Year 1 Boys, Evie who came 1st and Adah who came 2nd for the Year 1 girls.














Thursday, April 4, 2019

Year 1 Trip

We had an amazing trip to the gardens and museum on Monday even the weather played its part and we were able to have our picnic.
First we visited the Discovery Centre in the museum, where we had time to explore and discover different bugs and their habitats. They even had real tarantulas! Don't worry they were well displayed behind glass. Phew ... got my heart racing!













This was called a 'Fly Eye'. It helped us see what flies see.












Then it was lunch time. 



Max, Ahmad and Samuel created a leaf tower.

Here are my monkeys playing in the Monkey Puzzle Tree





Pete taught us all about worms.

This is soil - made from...worm poo!

3 types of worms - compost worms (live in the compost)
top soil worms (live in top soil)
deep soil worms (live in deep soil)

This is Pete's worm farm in the bathtub

First we shredded newspaper , then soaked it and mooshed it in water.

The paper was put inside our bottles which had been wrapped in
newspaper to protect the worms from bright light.
We added 5 worms and some soil.
In the top we put some soil and grass seed.
We hope that our bottles will grow 'grass hair'.

We will keep watch over them next week then they will come home.