Frog's Science Experiment

 

This week we have been marooned on a desert island! Our challenge was to make a shelter that is waterproof, windproof and strong.

First we explored lots of different materials.

 Then we built our shelters. We had to work as a team. It was difficult to make the shelters stand up but we perserved!

 Then it was time to test our shelters. We planned how we were going to test it.

We talked about how to make it fair.



This is how we tested if the shelter was waterproof.

 This is how we tested if it was windproof. We are going to leave our shelters overnight to see if they are strong. We will check in the morning.

 The leaf shelter was not waterproof because it had holes in it. Poor Robbie the Rabbit got wet!!! Mrs Llewellyn was very sad.

 

Hilliers Gardens Year Three

Today Year Three visited Hilliers Gardens near Romsey as part of our science topic.We had an amazing day walking around the garden and learning new things.

We started the day with drama, pretending to be seeds turning into flowers and then being pollinated by Beatrice Bee. We then played seed survival where we learned that there are lots of things that can kill seeds.

We walked around the gardens and found lots of interesting things.

We found a tunnel leading through a giant Gunnera (dinosaur plant)

 

Another tunnel lead through bamboo. Bamboo feels like plastic and when you shake it the leaves make a calming sound.

We also saw a Giant Red Wood and all stood inside the leaves around the trunk. The bark was soft and furry and is fire proof. This tree is just a baby but they are the largest living things on the planet.

We bounced across a rather springy brigde...

...and hid inside a strange looking 'igloo' tree!

At last we stopped in the shade to look at the ducks and fish.

After a beautiful picnic lunch we set off for our last activities of the day.

We learned about the different parts of a plant (petals, sepal, stigma and stamen) and explore the rather smelly herb garden (nice smelly!)

 

We used light metres to test how much light was getting through to the ground. The gardeners use these so they know the best place to plant new plants.

 

 

Invertebrates

Year Two and Three were very lucky to have some visitors from the Reptile Centre come in on Monday. We were very excited when we sat down in front of a selection of invertebrates in various habitats.

We had a close look at  a Dead Leaf Praying Mantis which can make itself look just like a pile of leaves and a Vinegaroon which shoots vinegar at its predators.

We looked (from a distance!) at a Scorpian and a Tarantula.

 

Mrs Whittingstall-Bean was very brave.

Year Two have been asked to look after some African Land Snails and Year Three are looking after some Locusts.

Thank you very much to Dave for coming in and talking to us.

The dragon visit

Ladybirds class could not decide if dragons were real or not, so we had a debate and put our answers in a voting box. But still we could not decide. Mrs Whittingstall-Bean said she had arranged for some dragons to visit the school and we could decide then.   

 

We are so lucky to have dragons and lizards visit our class, can we have one as a pet?

It was the best day ever, the big monitor dragon was only 8 months old and it will be huge when it’s an adult.

 

Even Mrs Whittingstall-Bean held the big dragon.

 

I found out reptiles are cold blooded.

I found out that they shed their skin like snakes do.

 

 

They lay eggs and their babies know how to eat and hunt straight away.

 

They were amazing and felt dry not wet like I thought.

 

I found out that a dragon is a type of lizard which is a reptile.

 

It was brilliant; I got to hold a bearded dragon.

Wow! wow! I touched a bearded dragon.

Pumpkin soup

When the children were in year 1 they planted pumpkin seeds. As they grew the children kept watering the plants and in year 2 brought them with and re potted them in bigger pts. They fed them regularly and were rewarded with one large pumpkin. The children had a vote on what to do with their prized pumpkin, the children all decided to make pumpkin soup as one of their class secrets of success is to try new things. The children had to follow written instructions to prepare and cook the soup.

 

It is a shame only one pumpkin grew really big. We have kept the seeds and will grow them again next year.

 

 

I can’t wait to grow more vegetables in our outside area.

 

 

It was tricky to cut the pumpkin into cube shapes but I persevered.

 

The smell from the kitchen was really good as it was cooking.

 

The pumpkin soup was smooth in texture and very tasty.

 

It tasted really yummy.

I wasn’t going to try it but I did and loved it, I had two cups of it.

 

Apple and blackberry crumble

As part of the English work on instruction writing, the children in Ladybirds looked at recipes. They decided to make their own crumble from blackberries in the school grounds. The children watched a video and read recipes before they then prepared and cooked their own crumble.  They had to write their own recipe afterwards.

I have never been blackberry picking before, its great fun.



 

It was so exciting picking our blackberries in the woods at school.

 

I followed the instructions and my crumble is so so tasty

 

I learnt how to use scales to weigh the ingredients.

I’m going to make a crumble at home.

 

 

 

This is better than my nans crumble!

 

We even got to wash up in the kitchen.