The Volvo Ocean Race is set to arrive in Galway this weekend. We are so excited. We are following it on the internet, and seeing the sailors at sea. We even saw teddy steering a yacht. We painted our own Green Dragon yachts in class. We hope that the Green Dragon does very well in the race.
Staying with our topic of mini-beasts, we made some delicious apples. We thought that worms might like them too so we let them eat through the apple (rather like the way the hungry caterpillar ate through all the food). They look great but we wouldn't like to eat them now!
We made some marbelled paper in Art last week. Today we used this paper to make 3D butterflies. We cut out the butterflies and stuck them on to backing pages with glue only on their tummies. This means that the wings can flutter in the breeze. They almost look like real butterflies.
We have been talking about the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We played games about this story on our whiteboard, and we made really nice collages of the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We know lots about bugs, mini-beasts and insects. We coloured lots of bugs, and used cut up pieces of blue and green paper for ponds and grass. Look at the lovely collages we made using the insects we coloured.
We are making ladybirds in class, to keep our (real) worms and caterpillars company. Teacher had some plastic easter egg shells which she kept so we could cover in papier mache layers and then paint as ladybirds. Papier mache uses a paste made out of flour and water and layers of newspapers. It is messy but great fun to work with. 
These are our finished ladybirds. They look great.
We are having fun learning about stories from around the world. At the moment we are hearing lots about the story of Daedalus and Icarus from Greece. We learned that Icarus didn't listen to his Dad and he flew too close to the sun. This caused the wax on the wings he made to melt, and he fell into the sea. Today we painted nice pictures of Icarus too close to the sun.
We are learning lots about flying these days. We made kites on Monday and tried flying them. It is harder to fly kites than it looks, but we had lots of fun with them.
Mrs. Newell's class came to help us with our art today. We made pictures from oil and water. We dropped a couple of drops of oil on top of a tray of water. Then we laid our white pages on top. Look at the lovely designs that we made.
