This week is caterpillar and butterfly week and we started off on Monday by thinking about everything we know already about caterpillars and butterflies. We thought of some tricky questions to research and have found out all the answers by looking on the internet or in non fiction books. Mrs Young heard on the radio one morning that some scientists have xrayed a pupa to find out what goes on inside as the caterpillar is turning into a butterfly - wow! Hayden and Bailey suggested that I google it on our computer to find the video and it was amazing. Why not have a go at googling - xray of inside a chrysalis and watch it together?
We have found out that caterpillars are always eating. When they hatch they are so hungry that they eat their egg shell. They eat so much that they get too fat for their skin - so they shed their skin and guess what? They eat that aswell !! We also found out that most butterflies only live for about 2 weeks.
We have read lots of great stories about butterflies. We really liked The Crunching Munching Caterpillar by Jack Tickle - it was such a good story. Gracie, Sienna and lots of the other children wrote their own great caterpillar stories too. We have learnt how to draw our own butterflies and we have been making our pictures symmetrical (the same on both sides). We also made some fantastic sponge print caterpillars.
What great symmetrical patterns
On Wednesday the school nurses popped into our class to teach us about the importance of washing our hands properly so that we do not get poorly. We all had a go at the magic cream and then we had to wash our hands really carefully to check that all the magic cream had gone. It takes quite a long time to wash your hands properly. Also did you know that it's really important to dry your hands really well because bugs love damp or wet hands.
On Friday in PE we learnt how to hoola hoop - Mrs Ball was really good at it and so were Charlie, Holly and Eysan. We had great fun wiggling to keep the hoops going. We also learnt to roll the hoops to each other - it's not as easy as it sounds !
Charlie was great at hoola hooping
We have worked together a lot this week and Mrs Young was really pleased with how polite we were and how good we were at sharing. Well done everyone !
Next week Mrs Mayers, our lovely student teacher, will be doing some of the teaching in our class.
Mrs Mayers
That's all for now.
Grasshopper Class