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 [...]
Today we learned about fire because we wanted to know why fire was hot. We started by getting some small birthday cake candles, matches, a baking tin, a jar and some water. We stuck the candles in a baking tin with wax. Then we lit them with a large candle. We had to be very [...]
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 love learning about what things are made of and today we decided to learn about glass. There’s a place near us where they make glass things and they let you watch them. We went along. Here’s a man working with glass: Glass is heated up in a furnace until it is so hot it [...]
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 [...]
We’ve been thinking about important things so we decided to do a project about them. It started yesterday when daddy asked people on Twitter what they thought were important things. They gave us a good list. We wanted to think about what was most important so daddy thought of a way that would help us [...]
We’ve been thinking about where food comes from so we decided to do a big food map. First we looked at the continents and drew our own. A continent is a big part of the world with lots of countries in. Our continent is Europe. We only had one atlas so Olive had to draw [...]
We’ve wanted to make things with wood for ages. We’ve never done it before so we decided to start with an easier sort of wood called Balsa. Balsa wood is very soft and light and easy to work with. We used a special saw called a Scroll Saw. It has a blade that goes up [...]
We had an email from @louisebrown asking us where bees go in the winter so we decided to learn all about bees. We like to make things so the first thing we did was make a little bee of our own. Next we started finding out about bees by looking in books and on the [...]