On top of the world
24 Jan 2025We’ve continued our wintry theme from last week, by focusing this week’s learning on Arctic animals and polar habitats.
We started off the week by watching a video about arctic animals and finding out what life is like at the top of the earth! We learnt some new vocabulary too, including blubber and iceberg, which we’ve been trying hard to remember and use in our class discussions. To help our understanding, we used our class globe, and looked in an atlas to find the Arctic and Antarctica.
We’ve been learning all about polar bears and how important their icy habitats are for them to survive. The children were very interested in what is happening with the melting ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctica and are keen to help look after our planet and help protect the polar bears too! We made a pledge to turn off our lights when we’re not in our classroom, save water by turning off the tap and try to reduce our use of plastic. It would mean a lot to the polar bears if you could try it at home too.
On Wednesday, we got to be Arctic explorers! We thought carefully about what we would need to pack in our rucksack, including a compass and some food, then wrapped up warm before setting off on our sledge! Luckily we had a willing husky to pull us along, so we could relax and enjoy the view. We used our telescopes and saw reindeer, walruses and a polar bear!
On Thursday, it was time to head south to Antarctica. We read a story about a lost penguin, and a boy who was trying to help him get back home. Transition were keen to help too and decided we should build a bridge to reach Antarctica. Everyone worked together to get the bridge built, using planks of wood, tyres and crates. Once