We’ve been learning a lot about birds and we wanted to see if we could get more birds to come into our garden. We decided to make some food they might like. We made fruit sticks and seed lollies. Here’s how we did it! First we cut some fruit into pieces. Then we threaded it [...]
Last week we went on holiday without our mum and dad to Cornwall! We stayed with our Grandma and Grandad. It was very exciting. While we were there Grandad got some clay so we could do some plaster casting. Here’s what we did: First we found all sorts of interesting things in the house and [...]
We got our body pictures out again today because we decided we wanted to do some more work on them. We decided to look at muscles. Did you know we have over 650 muscles in our bodies? We found some pictures of muscles in our body books and some interesting stuff on the internet too. [...]
We love drawing and our mum told us that there was going to be an exhibition coming to Bristol of drawings by someone called Leonardo da Vinci. We really wanted to go and see it but before we went we decided to find out a bit about Leonardo. Luckily we found a book in the [...]
Today we had another look at our body pictures. We decided to find out a bit about how our hearts work. We’ve got lots of books about bodies but we like this one best because it has flaps to look under. We learned that our heart pumps our blood round our body. Our blood needs [...]
We want to learn about how our bodies work so our mum suggested we make some pictures about it. We decided we wanted to start with bones and find out all about the bones we have in our bodies so we found some books to help us and started to make our skeletons! First we [...]
We went to the new museum in Exeter a few weeks ago and saw Gerald the Giraffe. Read all about our visit here. We wanted to find out more about giraffes so we did lots of giraffe stuff all day. We read a book called “Giraffe’s Can’t Dance” which is one of mummy’s favourite story [...]
Today we made some chutney for Christmas. First we cut up some apricots and dates and mixed in some raisins. Then we stirred them up with some orange juice. Then we chopped up some onions and ginger and cooked them in some vinegar with cranberries and apples and some mixed spice. We weighed out some [...]
We went all Christmassy today with our home-school friends! We made some Christmas houses. Here’s how we did it… First we gathered together all the pieces of card we needed to make a house. Four walls, a floor and a roof. Then we glued them together with a hot glue gun. The houses look a [...]
Last week we went to Spacex in Exeter to see an exhibition by an artist called Salvatore Arancio. The exhibition had drawings, sculptures and sound too. We liked the pictures of mountains. Here’s some more information about the exhibition. The people who work there put some art materials out so people can make some work [...]