We have been finding it difficult to solve very small disputes with our friends. In circle time we played games and chatted to help us get better at this. We were given a variety of problems and we had to try and solve them with our friends. We were reminded that if any problem, big or small, is worrying us a lot we can always tell Mrs Duncan.
Here are our very proud star writers from this week. We can’t show you our writing yet because it is top secret! (Although, I am doubtful how many of the children will manage to keep it secret!) :)You will get it sent home to you very soon.
Most of us were working hard to achieve these targets today:
Today we have been learning about how the dinosaurs died out. We did some experiments to find out more about volcanoes. We loved doing the mentoes volcano experiment.
The children were desperate for the instructions to go on the blog so that they could try the experiment at home. They helped me write the instructions written below.
What you need
What to do
Top Safety tips
Literacy
New Sounds
New words
Name writing. One of our most recent targets is to write our full names. We have been practising this in our play contexts. Please help your child write his/her first and last name this week. The children have been trying to ensure that:
Initially, your child may need to copy his/her full name. Gradually, this support could be withdrawn so that your child is able to confidently write his/her name independently.
Numeracy
Please ensure you have completed last weeks 3D shape homework – this is explained on a previous blog post. Several children have not yet completed it. Thank you.
Today we were developing our skills in typing using Clicker 6. We all managed to type the name of our favourite dinosaur. We also changed the style, size and colour of our writing. We were most excited about printing our work! We thought Mrs Duncan was a magic teacher when she said ‘Abracadabra’ and her writing game shooting out of the printer! 😃
Here is the finished product:
We are going to use this for some data handling maths work next week.
Have a great long weekend everyone! 😃
We have been learning that problem solving means doing very clever thinking to fix a problem. Today we developed our problem solving skills using the iPads. We used a fantastic app called ‘Free flow.’ We had to match up the colours – it got very tricky once we made our way through the higher levels. Some of us got up to level 27! If you are going to download this app at home please be aware that it does have some adverts from external apps so you may wish to supervise iPad time.
We also used the BeeBots. We had to program them to move in different directions. We are going to explore these further in the play contexts over the next few weeks. The BeeBots are available as an app – it is great for problem solving!
Our last activity was using different construction that was more challenging to fit together. The marble run was particularly popular!
We worked hard to solve various problems during our session with ‘The Happy Puzzle Company.’ We particularly enjoyed trying to balance lots of penguins on a wobbling iceberg!
We also participated in some problem solving activities with Miss Tait and Miss Cameron. We had to work out different ways of arranging ten spots on two different mushrooms. We also had to try and sort various items of clothes onto a shelf based on a strict criteria. This required a lot of very high order thinking!
Tomorrow we will be using the iPads and BeeBot robots to solve additional problems. We will use transferable skills that we have learned with our shape, number and measurement topics.
Today the children showed a very strong interest in finding out more about food chains. They were desperate for the game we had been playing to go onto the Blog. You can click here to play it if you wish. Boys and girls: remember that all food chains start with a plant or tree.
Wednesday is our busy literacy day. Today’s activities focused on the ‘th’ sounds, the alphabet, blending letters to make words and spelling our tricky words.
We went on a 3D shape hunt outside today. We found cylinders, cones, spheres, cuboids and cubes. We are becoming more confident at naming and recognising these shapes. We found out that most of the playground and school area is made up of cylinders and cuboids. We didn’t find many cones or spheres – we thought this would be because they are not good for building.
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