Easter Week!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday, all of the children were very exciting to share their holiday news with the class on Monday. We have had a very lovely week this week with most of our work having an Easter theme! This has included Easter crafts, maths and even writing! It’s been a nice way to start back to school after the holiday to ease us in gently…

Easter Maths

We had to complete an Easter mosaic sheet where we had to use add/subtract/times tables to work out the answers of each tile and then colour it in a specific colour, depending on the answer. Some of us were even learning the 8, 9 and 11 times tables which were very tricky!

We also designed some Easter eggs that had to show symmetry. We used mirrors to help us. We had some very fancy ideas and were very creative.

Easter Writing

We wrote another list poem describing as many things about Easter as we could think of. We started by mindmapping in small groups all of the nouns we could think of to do with Easter. We then repeated this for adjectives and verbs. This worked well as a planning page if we ran out of ideas! Some of us were even challenged to add a fourth word to each line of our poem, by adding in an adverb which some children learned describes the doing word. Our poems turned out really well and had some lovely, descriptive lines in them.

Easter Cards

We took part in an art activity where we had to use many different types of line and pattern to fill in a little bunny rabbit. It was hard to think of lots of shapes and patterns but we all managed it! We then cut it out and turned it into an Easter card to take home.

Hatching Chick Craft

Again we used our design and creative skills to design an Easter egg. We had to cut it out and design a little chick to be hatching out of the egg. We used paper fasteners to join both parts of the egg together. We could choose how we wanted the egg to crack – straight, zig zags etc. Some of our chicks even had flowers in their feathers or wore a crown!

Easter Egg Decorating

We were each given a polystyrene egg and we had to come up with a design of how we would like to decorate it. We had to plan out our ideas using a whiteboard so that we were sure what we wanted to do. We had to choose appropriate resources from a wide variety to stick onto the egg. Our designs included golden snitches, peacocks and lots more.

Eatwell Plate

In a non-Easter related lesson, we were thinking about healthy eating and we were looking at the ‘Eatwell Plate.’ We were learning about different food groups such  as protein, dairy and carbohydrates. We then played a game on the board where we had to choose the food group that the food item belonged to. Our task was then to use a paper plate and create our own meal that met the proportions of the Eatwell Plate. Some of us chose to draw the parts onto our plate which made it a bit clearer. We had lots of good idea and it brought up lots of discussion about our diets and what we usually eat at home. We will be continuing our learning on this over the next few weeks.

Play-doh

For our play zones this week, 2 of the boys helped Mrs Philipson to make play-doh! It was a nice change to have as one of our play zones.