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With happy smiles from Amazon Class :)
n a sunny morning, Amazon Class enjoyed a fun-filled morning of sports at Abbeyfield School, led by the fantastic sports ambassadors. We enjoyed lots of energetic activities to kick start our final week of term. A huge thank you to the sports team at Abbeyfield!
As part of our Awesome Animals topic, Amazon Class have a new pet- a panda!
Yang the panda currently lives at Edinburgh Zoo and this week, we have been checking in daily with our new panda friend via the Panda Cam. Whilst observing Yang in his surroundings, we’ve been learning lots of exciting facts about pandas. The children have been eager to check in with Yang each day and have asked me to share the camera link so they can watch their new friend at the weekends too!
We’ve deducted that Yang spends most of the day eating bamboo, likes to sleep after lunch time with his paw over his face and first thing in the morning, the zoo keepers make his home all fresh for the day ahead.
🐼 Panda Cam: https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/
During science this week, Amazon Class have been exploring invertebrate habitats. The children worked together to design and create the perfect home for a range of insects.
The terracotta pots are designed to encourage crawling insects such as woodlice, and are placed at ground level in our outdoor area. The wooden boxes are placed in the raised beds and are designed to encourage flying insects such as solitary bees.
We are looking forward to carefully inspecting our bug homes to find out if any habitants have moved in!
Awesome Animals
The start of Term 4 in Amazon Class has been absolutely animal filled!
We are thoroughly enjoying learning about all things animals, including; collective nouns for groups of animals, animal A-Z, exploring different habitats, animal sketching, learning about animals with unusual names and so much more to come!
Amazon Class Stay and Read afternoon
It was wonderful to welcome so many of our parents into Amazon Class last week for our stay and read afternoon for this term.
Our book focus for the afternoon was the fantastically funny ‘The Bear’s Guide to Beekeeping’ by Alex Griffiths. We had lots of fun thinking about bears from other books, exploring non-fiction books about bears and drawing and describing bear characters.
Thank you so much to those parents who were able to join us.
An example of some of the learning completed with our grown-ups.
We can't wait for our next Stay and Read afternoon! I wonder what our next book will be?
In Amazon Class, the children have throughly enjoyed exploring the artwork of Wassily Kandinsky, using watercolours to recreate one of his most famous pieces.
