Today we started the lesson by singing  from ‘I wanna play in a band’.  The children really enjoyed this.  We then looked at how we might make our own music, using glass jars and teaspoons.  The glass jars only  really gave us one note, so we weren’t impressed until Ogo came up with the idea to put some water into the jars ….. and our band was formed! We now had 3 notes!  After playing in trios for a short while the class came together and we played 3 Blind Mice!  

We were amazing!!

I decided that the children need to focus  more on their handwriting so I have introduced a handwriting session on a Friday afternoon.  The children work at one station a week and hopefully we will see an improvement in their handwriting skills.  

The 4 stations this week were

• writing with wet chalk
• writing with paint
• writing on gel within a plastic bag
• writing on magnetic boards

The children all worked for 10 minutes with great concentration so we should hopefully start to see great results in their jotters too!

This week the gym was being used for a rehearsal so we braved the elements and had some outdoor play.  The children really enjoyed using our Christmas gift from the Parent Council.

After finding out about Graham Alexander Bell, we decided to make our own telephones.  They worked really well!  We decided to try them outside as it was quite noisy in the class with everyone making calls!

The next day we investigated with bigger cups to see if having bigger ears made you hear better.  The result was that it made little difference to our hearing!  It was a good fun experiment.  

The children have learned so much about Graham Bell, hearing and sound.  Ask them at home!

Next week we are going to have a look at hearing different pitch using bottles and water!