Term 3 - Week 7 : More Creepy Crawlies

Our week first started with the big news about the two towers that were demolished......and for those who did not know about it......we had lots of stories even some that included the terrible traffic which took so long....!!!!
This week we discussed other creepy crawlies and how people often think that spiders are insects but they have eight hairy legs, eight eyes,  two body parts, and six spinnerets for spinning silk.............these 'insects' fall into the insect family and are called arachnids - the spiders web is strong and sticky and if it gets broken the spider will often eat it up before spinning another one.  We also discussed how some bugs have two pairs of wings, which are symmetrically identical and how insects cannot chew their food and as such they inject saliva into their prey which liquifies what they want to eat and this enables them to suck up this soft part of their victim. 
Our letter focus this week was 'e' for egg - the children spent quite a bit of time ornately colouring in their very detailed egg - and came up with interesting words like elephant, egg, end.....to name but a few!!
We also started decorating our bookmarks for grandparents/someone special day......and of course have been practicing our songs!
In life skills we tried our hand at threading......using a spiral shape and red ribbon we tried to spin our very own spiders' web.....and with lots of imagination these webs could be the real mccoy!!
Some very exciting news for us is to welcome to our Class Bet family our beautiful zebra finches - we have a girl and a boy, named by the children as Lola and Ruffy....a huge thank you to Jordyn and her family for this donation including cage and stand, on behalf of Jordyns' 4th birthday. The children are all very excited and I am sure that this will be the start of an amazing experience for us all.....and each one will get their share in caring for our new babies!! 
Thank you to Lana and Marina for looking after my class on Wednesday, I was given the day to go and observe at another school - the experience, although enriching, made me realise that our little hive at Sinai Academy is truly the bees knees........and on that note, we will be buzzing about into our new bee theme next week and look forward to you sending bee books and anything relating to bees and flowers for our theme table.  So, until we chat again......with love Morah Mandy