Science; Living Things

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Fathers’ Day 15th June: Good Dads in the Animal Kingdom

We were learning about good Dads in the Animal Kingdom.

Here are some we found out about:

Prairie Tyrannosaur
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Tau Zero via Compfight

Dinosaur
The experts say that there is evidence
that dinosaur dads minded their children
and protected the nest.

Pygmy marmoset
Photo Credit: Tambako The Jaguar via Compfight

Marmoset
The marmoset grooms the baby monkeys,
feeds them and carries them round on his back.

Hippocampus
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Vic DeLeon via Compfight

Seahorse
The seahorse is the only male creature that gives birth

frog
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki via Compfight

Darwin frog
Carries the eggs in a special pocket
in his throat until they hatch into tadpoles.

Betta splendens
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Chantal Wagner Kornin via Compfight

Siamese fighting fish
Protects the eggs until they hatch.

Antarctica, november 2007
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Martha de Jong-Lantink via Compfight

Emperor penguin
The Emperor penguin keeps his egg warm under his feathers, balanced on his toes. He doesn’t eat for two months while he is waiting for the egg to hatch.

Mr Kong
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Edgar Barany C via Compfight

Silverback gorilla
The silverback gorilla protects his children

and plays with them.

You can read more about good Dads

in the Animal Kingdom here!

We had a vote.

The Emperor penguin is our favourite.

Which is yours?

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A poem that we like a lot: ‘Science’ by Danielle Sensier

“Experiment” by Danielle Sensier 

 

At school we’re doing growing things  

with cress. 

Sprinkly seeds in plastic pots 

of cotton wool. 

 

Kate’s cress sits up on the sill 

she gives it water. 

Mine is shut inside the cupboard 

dark and dry. 

 

Now her pot has great big clumps  

of green 

mine hasn’t 

Teacher calls it Science 

I call it mean! ‘

We like this poem. 

We learned it when we did experiments

about growing things.

Experiments we did about growing things.

 

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Good Dads in the Animal Kingdom

 

We were learning about good Dads in the Animal Kingdom. Here are some we found out about:

Dinosaur
The experts say that there is evidence
that dinosaur dads minded their children
and protected the nest.

Marmoset
The marmoset grooms the baby monkeys,
feeds them and carries them round on his back.

Seahorse
The seahorse is the only male creature that gives birth

Darwin frog
Carries the eggs in a special pocket
in his throat until they hatch into tadpoles.

Siamese fighting fish
Protects the eggs until they hatch.

Emperor penguin
The Emperor penguin keeps his egg warm under his feathers, balanced on his toes. He doesn’t eat for two months while he is waiting for the egg to hatch.

Silverback gorilla
The silverback gorilla protects his children and plays with them.

 

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A quick update about projects we are doing in school

Imagine it is Easter already! The year is flying by. Teacher is delighted to report that Second Class, Room 6 are making excellent progress in learning their addition and take away tables. We will be ready for the challenges of multiplication and division next year in Third Class.

We have done a lot of science this year. We made a walkie talkie using tin cans which really worked. But we decided that the best fun we had in Science was the day we made Baking Powder Bombs. A close second was the day we experimented with the static electricity using balloons and made our hair stand on end 🙂

We are doing a lot of project work. We began by doing projects on the owl. This was because we were reading ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.

We followed up be doing projects on animals we met in another book by the same author ‘The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’. We learn that aardvark means ‘earth pig’ and they like to eat termites. We learnt about nocturnal and diurnal animals. We learnt about their habitats. For example aardvarks live in the veldt in Africa. We learnt whether they were herbivores, carnivores, insectivores or omnivores.

Another day we were learning how to write riddles. We saw this one online;
‘I live in the canopy. I rarely touch the forest floor. I hang upside down all day. I move as slow as a tortoise. My hair is brown and green. I eat tree leaves. Who am I?
Can you guess the answer.

It is a sloth.
We became so interested in them we ended up doing a project about these fascinating animals too.
They are a greenish brown because they are so slow moving a green algae grows on their fur!

Laura’s lovely ‘Owl and Fox in a Landscape’.

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Good Mums in the Animal Kingdom

Good Mums in the Animal Kingdom.

 

Our Mums gives us food we like to eat.

A mother swan finds tender shoots that are easy for her babies to swallow.

 

Your mother loves to play games with you.

A mother cheetah plays a game to show her cubs how to hunt.

 

If a mother has to leave her baby, she chooses someone she can trust.

Mother giraffes help one another by looking after each other’s babies.

 

A mother’s voice is special. Babies always know their mother’s voice.

 

A mother dolphin makes a clicking sound. Her baby knows to follow it from the moment he’s born.

 

Mothers carry their babies close to them to keep them safe.

A mother orang-utan carries her baby for more than two years. Luckily her arms are strong and powerful.

 


We are growing peas. The little shoots have just sprouted.

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Update for parents: Project work: Science: Living Things

Eyes Of A Night Owl
Photo Credit: Stuart Richards via Compfight

We are doing a lot of project work.

We began by doing projects on the owl.

This was because we were reading

‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.

We followed up be doing projects on animals

we met in another book by the same author

‘The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’.

aardvark
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Michelle Bender via Compfight

 

We learn that aardvark means ‘earth pig’

and they like to eat termites.

We learnt about nocturnal and diurnal animals.

We learnt about their habitats.

For example aardvarks live in the veldt in Africa.

We learnt whether they were herbivores,

carnivores, insectivores or omnivores.

Three Toed Sloth
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Marie and Alistair Knock via Compfight

Another day we were learning how to write riddles.

We saw this one online;

‘I live in the canopy.

I rarely touch the forest floor.

I hang upside down all day.

I move as slow as a tortoise.

My hair is brown and green.

I eat tree leaves.

Who am I?

Can you guess the answer.

It is a sloth.

We became so interested in them

we ended up doing a project

about these fascinating animals too.

They are a greenish brown because

they are so slow moving a green algae

grows on their fur.