The children have been so enthusiastic about our Planet Earth topic this month! We have explored the polar regions, the rainforest, the desert and ocean life and have so enjoyed learning about the different animals and wildlife that can be found there. We have created our very own Planet Earth outside our classroom and the children have even drawn their own diagrams of the layers of the ocean! We built our own habitats for polar bears and arctic foxes too. Sir David Attenborough would surely be impressed? As ever, the children have had fabulous questions that we have had lots of fun investigating like "How can sea cucumbers survive on the ocean floor?" (~Keir) and "What would happen if Planet Earth turned into an oval?" (~Aodhan).

In addition to all of our wonderful questions about Earth, the children have been learning all about how we can look after our planet too. We know that walking to school, recycling and picking up our rubbish are small things that we can do to help.

We have been investigating the impact of the weather with our very own puddle investigations. With the very wet weather this month, we took to the playground to measure some puddles and predict whether we thought that the puddles would get bigger or smaller... Mila quickly hypothesised that the puddles would get bigger because Daddy had told her it was to rain all the way to her birthday (the next day!). Some children thought the puddle might get smaller as the sun might make it disappear. It was so wet that we had to put our measurements on hold for a few days, and in the end discovered that we were all right! The puddles were much bigger as the rain tumbled down, but eventually became smaller and disappeared. What super investigation skills we have!