Spring 1 ‘Amazing Animals’

During this topic we explored different types of amazing animals. We started by focussing on Hibernation and Polar animals. The children loved reading ‘The Emperor’s Egg’ and we learnt some amazing facts about penguins!

In the first Spring half term, we all enjoyed Science Day. We still can’t believe we found a giant dinosaur egg in the Rainbow Garden! That our task was to try and send some frozen blood to the science laboratory so the scientists can work out what type of dinosaur was in the egg. We had to think of different ways to keep the blood frozen. The children participated in fun science experiments in the classroom.

As we continued to learn about different types of animals in our topic, we then looked at under the sea animals. The classes looked at the book ‘Surprising Sharks’ and we also started to talk about the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. 

This half term was a chance to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We were extremely fortunate to have Earth Song join us and host a CNY workshop with each class. The children loved playing Chinese musical instruments and dancing as lions and dragons with the Earth Song team.

In our final week of our ‘Amazing Animal’ topic, we explored the idea of animals as pets. Mrs Davison was very kind and brought her dog Cooper to school for each class to meet. The children were all very sensible when meeting Cooper, and it was a lovely way to finish our half term.