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Darling Blog

A very warm welcome to Darling Class. Please do have peep at what we have been getting up to.

May 2022

  • The Lovely Bug Club

    Published 23/05/22

    This week we read the wonderful story 'The Ugly Bug Club' by Gail Abbitt.

    This led to a fascinating debate over which bug would make the best pet....

    "I would choose a spider because it would tickle me"

    "I would choose a woodlouse because I don't like slugs or snails because they are slimy. A woodlouse isn't scary or slimy, and it wouldn't bite me."

    "I would like a stick insect because I'm scared of spiders and I would keep it safe and put another stick next to it so the predators would get confused."

    "I would choose a spider because then I could use it to scare people."

    However, knowing that we couldn't take an actual bug home, we made our own minibeast pet to look after and play with...

     

     

    We all agreed that the Ugly Bug Club should be renamed 'The Lovely Bug Club' and here they are having their very first meeting...

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  • Beautiful Bugs and Butterfies

    Published 12/05/22

    As part of this term's topic 'Down in the Garden' we have been looking at the wonderful bugs that inhabit our environment.

    Creating our own bugs and butterflies in the woods gave us the opportunity to observe and talk about the different body parts of the creatures, count and check we had the correct number of legs and explore symmetry...

     

     

     

    We also have some new additions to Darling Class...

    We will keep you posted on how these furry creatures are getting on. We have already learned a lot - did you know caterpillars only have six legs? The others are called prolegs and help to move the caterpillar along, but they are not the caterpillar's actual legs!

     

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  • Another busy week in Darling Class!

    Published 06/05/22

    Despite it being only a four-day week we have certainly packed a lot in...

    Chopping up our favourite fruit to make a healthy fruit skewer...

      

    ... Finding and sharing new hiding spaces now Spring has well and truly sprung and investigating the new flora and fauna in the woods and pond ...

       

    ... Flexing our muscles on the tricycles and scooters, and making sure we stick to the speed limit to avoid fines from the police while we did it...

     

    ... Making our own family of worms, ordering them by size and using our mathematical knowledge to work out how much shorter and longer one family member is in comparison to another... 

      

    ... Taking inspiration from outdoors for our painting...

    ... Cleaning the doll's house ready for some small world play...

    And finally, making and baking delicious cinnamon twists...

     

    ... And eating them of course!!!

     

     

     

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