Bears@taddy

  Looking after pets As part of our new topic, Animal Safari, Bears have been learning all about how to look after our pets. We shared what animals we had as pets and how we took care of them. Some need washing and brushing, they all need food and water and taking care of. We then had some pets come to visit the classroom, the ducklings Puddle and Waddle, and some chicks. We saw how the ducklings had webbed feet to help them to swim and how the chicks had fluffy down on them that was turning into feathers.

                                          Minibeast Safari As part of our companion topic, Creep, Crawl and Wriggle, Bears visited our school woods and went on a minibeast safari. We looked for minibeasts in their natural habitat, their home. We looked under rocks, logs and leaf litter with our magnifying glasses to investigate where the minibeasts were hiding. We recorded our findings. We found a ladybird, lots of worms of different sizes, beetles, spiders, and slugs. Bears were careful to put back their minibeasts after their investigations. 

  Animal Safari  As part of our new topic, Animal Safari, Bears have been reading Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. We looked at the features of the animals that were sent from the zoo in the book and decided if any of the animals would be suitable as a pet. Bears decided that a pet elephant would be far too big and take up too much room. Also, we wouldn't want to clean up after it! A giraffe would be too tall and bang it's head on the lights. Most of Bears agreed it would be fun to have a cheeky monkey as pet.  We used our gross and fine motor skills to hold, draw around a stencil and cut out our chosen animal.  We explored and investigated which countries some of the animals came from. We went on our own safari and tried to spot some animals  with our binoculars. We spotted some sheep, lambs, birds and a horse!