Learning about Dogs

Spending so much time with the dogs on holiday in Spain got us really interested in doing a study on dogs. Eden - It has been one of my favourite studies and I would like to carry on learning about dogs always.

For this theme we have tried a new way of displaying what we learnt, it is called a lapbook because all the information is stored in a folder which is small enough to fit on your lap. (We still need to decorate the outside of the book.)
Once it opens you can see all the many mini books inside.
And they all open up to show more information.
We loved learning about all the different groups of dogs and all the breeds in those groups. It is so much fun spotting all the breeds we have learnt when we are driving or at the park.
It was fun to learn about all the wonderful jobs dogs do.
This is about a guide dog, we had already learnt about them when mom read us the book "Follow my leader" which is about a boy who lost his sight when his friend threw a firecracker at him, and how he got a guide dog to help him get around. You can see that this mini book has a few tabs so that you can turn to lots of different jobs that dogs do.

Studying Henri Rousseau

We have been studying the paintings of Henri Rosseau over the last few weeks. This was the children's favourite painting at the National Art Gallery, so we were excited to learn more about his other paintings. However the children did not enjoy looking at a lot of his other paintings as a lot of them were too dark and mysterious for them, the one below(Surprised) being one of his lighter-hearted ones.

Jude's jungle study.
Niamh's Jungle painting.

Eden's painting was done with oil pastels and watercolours.

A Hampton Court Palace inspired drawing by Eden

Eden drew this after seeing the ladies dressed at Hampton Court Palace. I enjoyed seeing the detail she had captured.

Sunflowers - part 2

Eden's seedling was the first to exit the soil, and so she went running around the garden in excitement, but a few days on they are all out, and they're all looking strong.

Building skeletons

Niamh has been cutting out and putting together some skeletons this week, and has enjoyed playing this online game of putting a skeleton back together:

http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html
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The great sunflower race is on!

We have all planted two sunflower seeds each, and are now having a competition to see whose is going to grow the tallest.

Our froggies tails have disappeared, so time to set them free.

They are perfect little frogs now, with beautiful colourings, and so very tiny too.


This is the pond that we got the frogspawn from. All the frogspawn has now gone, and although we could not spot other frogs here, there were loads of tadpoles. It made us wonder if our tadpoles had gone through and accelerated growth in the tank, with constant food supplied to them throughout the day.

Niamh pointing one of our frogs after it had been put in the pond, it was great to see them swimming under the water, they hadn't done much of that in our tank due to limited space with all the plants.