In Year 1, we have been learning about how a tadpole develops into a frog. Frogs are amphibians. They can live in water and on land. We have researched the different stages that occur during a frog’s life cycle.
Miss Tracy’s Kindergarten class has tadpoles in their classroom and very kindly invited us to take a look. We used magnifying glasses to study the tadpoles more closely.
We discovered that on the first day, female frogs lay thousands of eggs in the water At first, they need to stay in the water to survive. As amphibians grow, they change. After a while, they are able to breathe air and go on land.
But do all frogs lay their eggs in water? Click on read more below to find out!
The Pelican class recently took a look at the artist Andy Warhol and in particular his vibrant portrait paintings. We took the children’s photographs and they painted on top of them using bright water colours. They then made their own background in Andy Warhol style printing. To do this they took a small rectangular piece of foam, carved a simple pattern on one side with a pencil, covered this with paint and used it as a stamp to make 4 prints. The results were simply eye catching!
This year we welcome a new student to the Pelican Class – Barney Barker. All the way from England, Barney the dog has come to Provo Primary to be looked after by the children of the Pelican Class. He has only been here for a week and they love him already! Every night, Barney goes home with a different child and has lots of fun – maybe he’ll get to go to the beach, soccer practice, ballet class or even a restaurant one day! Who knows what this dog is going to get up to! Read on to see a photo of Barney with his new friends.
Year 1 have been put through their paces by English cricket player, Paul Baker. The fully-qualified coach has been helping them learn the game as part of their PE programme and the budding stars of tomorrow have loved every minute of it.
Year One’s art topic this term has been texture and pattern. Last week, they looked online at some aboriginal paintings. They used their interactive whiteboard to look closely at the patterns and talked about how they could imitate them using everyday objects from their classroom. As their classroom is called the Gecko room, they decided to make geckos. First, they created a sandy background by marking brown, yellow and beige paint with their fingers. Then they each printed a pattern on their geckos using the wrong end of a small paintbrush. These were inspired by the aboriginal designs that they had seen. Click here to see a 
