Caterpillars

Our caterpillars have arrived!!!!!
Over the course of the next few weeks we will observe their growth and transformation into butterflies. We are predicting what colour our butterflies will be tomorrow. Talk with your children daily about their observations.

I will post pictures of our experiences.

The Caterpillar and The Polliwog

Retelling Goldilocks and the Three bears

Our class read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the children worked on retelling this story.

 

Worms

During our planting of the amaryllis bulbs in the garden the children discovered worms!!! We brought them into the classroom and gave them a home in soil and a clear container. The children were busy observing the worms, and I have been recording their thoughts and questions to revisit again. The worms have created quite a buzz in our classroom!

 

The Amaryllis bulbs

As you know, earlier in the winter we had planted amaryllis bulbs in the classroom and they grew into very beautiful flowers. Some of our plants have died, and we asked the children what we should do now that the plants have died.

A student in the afternoon class suggested we cut the leaves and flowers and use them to make art....so we did just that!

 

This inspired the children to create their works of art.

 

We discussed with the morning about what the afternoon children had decided but this left us with a problem. We had no idea what to do with the bulbs we cut!

 

They felt that the bulbs could grow again. Heere is what they suggested we do...

We are leaving this bulb in the classroom and we will water it.

We placed this cut bulb in water only to see if that would help it grow again.

This bulb the children wanted to leave in the pot but place it in our garden so that the rain and sun would help it grow again.

This bulb we took out of its pot. We saw the roots that had formed at the bottom. The children wanted to plant this in the soil in the garden.

 

 

Now we will wait to see what happens!!