We all love 'scratch art' drawing in Rosella! Today it was a caterpillar/butterfly picture to draw in L3 groups time. Please take a look at our fabulous creations.
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Rosella have been looking at lots of different butterflies and we have now realised that butterfly wings are beautiful examples of symmetry in nature. This means that the wings on one side of the butterfly's body match the wings on the opposite side of its body. Butterfly's wings are in fact mirror images of each other. We started making our butterflies yesterday by folding our art paper in half and carefully painting on only one half of our paper. We folded it back down and had fun pressing the two halves together. (We had a butterfly wing outline on the back of our paper.) Once cut out our beautiful, colourful butterfly wings were created. We finished by adding our butterfly's body today. They are now flying at the back of our classroom with our ants, bees and ladybirds!
Rosella enjoyed making a beautiful butterfly sculpture today. We used a stone, pipe cleaners of different lengths, a flower and of course our brightly coloured butterfly. We think they look fabulous!
Rosella had money to spend and insect body parts to buy so we could make our very own insect. Mmm . . . how much money did we need altogether to make our insect?
Rosella learnt about another insect this week - the honey bee and they created their own bees in L3 group time. They are now all buzzing around their very own bee hive in Rosella's classroom.
Today we recorded some amazing facts about ants to go with our ant display. Did you know ants can live for 30 years? That they are very strong for their size? Did you know Queen ants can have millions of babies? Please pop into our classroom to find out some more amazing facts about ants.
This term Rosella are definitely going 'Buggy' and this week we have begum learning about insects and the special features they have that distinguishes them from other 'minibeasts'. Today we investigated ants and looked at the specific body parts they have and why they help them survive. We had to learn some specific terminology to label the body parts of an ant today.
After recess we made our own ant, trying to remember what we had learnt earlier about an ant's body.
To finish off we enjoyed a funny song about ants!
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About UsRosella is a class of 17 happy and enthusiastic children excited to be in Kindergarten at Helensburgh PS in 2017. Our teachers are Mrs Jan Fuller (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Sue Dowling (Thursday and Friday) Our school is in NSW, Australia. Please feed Jig an apple and spray him clean if he rolls in the mud!
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