We have started off the year with a bang, lots of learning and loads of laughs. The poetry unit for English is proving to be an exciting one with the students writing lovely little poems using rhyme and repetition. We have enjoyed all the spoils of the wonderful literature that is available these days that is written in verse, in particular, Pig the Pug and The Very Cranky Bear series.

Our Science unit is starting to get exciting, deciphering the properties of materials with experiments that look at natural and man-made products and investigating if things are waterproof or absorbent, strong or weak and why we use materials for different things. The kids were shocked to learn about silk worms and where the silk actually comes from. They were equally as amazed about glass making and how people make it from silica and sand. We do live in a material world.

I am so excited for the wonderful things this year will bring. Be sure to ask where silk comes from.