All About Animals

This month we have been busy learning all about animals. We have learned that animals belong to different groups. For example, a jaguar is a mammal but a salamander is an amphibian.

We read a book called 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. We learnt some new words like salami and pickle.

Some of the students enjoying 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.

We learnt that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Actually it starts as an egg, then becomes a caterpillar and then turns into a butterfly. In Art we made butterflies. We painted one wing and then we put the two sides of the paper together to make a whole butterfly. We hung our butterflies on the wall for every one to see.

We had a question from Wilmot Road Primary School in Australia asking whether we do Art. As you can see, we do. This week, as we are learning about animals, we made mice out of paper.

Cutting a circle to make the mouse's body.

The early finishers playing with their mice.

We had to follow a lot of instructions to finish making our mice. We used lots of equipment including glue, paper, scissors, wool and coloured pencils. It took a long time to pack up! Teacher Lauren let us sing the afternoon song in a mouse voice. It was fun!

Questions:
This week we thought you could do a bit of research and find out information about an animal. We would love to hear about what you learn. Here are some questions to help you get started.

• Where does the animal live?
• What does it eat?
• What group does it belong to? (Eg. Insects, mammals, birds)
• What does it look like?

You can post your animal information below and we will read it in class.