We have had a very bug-tastic week this week in Year One! We have been learning about mini beasts in Science and on Wednesday we went on a Insect Safari! We worked in teams of 3 and in each team we had a Communications Officer (the person who communicates with the teacher), a Safari Sargent (the person who directs the team) and a Bug patrol and digger (the person who gets their hands dirty and looks in the bushes nd dirt for bugs!). We had to carefully look for insects around our school and look at the environments in which they live. Each team had an iPad which they used to take pictures of the insects this then allowed us to come back to class and share our findings. Here are some pictures of our Safari!
As well as looking at mini beasts in Science, we have also been exploring non-fiction texts within our Literacy session. We have learnt about different text features within a non fiction text which include contents pages, titles, headings and labelled diagrams. We have read a lot of information books about mini beasts and this week we had the opportunity to create our own mini beast!
We had to use our prior knowledge of what we knew about mini beasts and create a hybrid insect that reflects our understanding of what we have read. I must say we have some very creative children in our class...I don't think I would know how to draw a mixture of a spider, a dragonfly and a beetle together! The children had to draw a labelled diagram of their mini beast which will lead into writing an information report next week. Here are some of the wild creations so far!
We will be exploring worms, snails and ants in the coming weeks so please, if you find any snails by the end of next week, I would really appreciate if you could (carefully) catch them and put them into a container just for viewing and I will make sure they get safely back into their natural environment.
Thank you in advance!
Miss Prowse
