My class have such great ideas. There is something to make me smile every day.. .
I just thought I would share Ethan’s picture with you.
Ethan told me that it is 2 Ninjas fighting the wolves and the one with the hammer (on the right) has already put one wolf into the fire.
I hope you like it as much as me!!!
In maths, we have been learning to solve addition and subtraction story problems using pictures and manipulatives and then an equation. We have learned that the word “equation” is another name for a sum or number sentence.
Yesterday, we read a book called “Ten Flashing Fireflies.”
The cards on the left are part-part whole cards. We look at the number on one side and we have to work out what the number is on the other side that makes up the whole number at the top.
First, we warmed up our brains by doing some subitising. Subitising is being able to see how many things there are in a small collection without counting by ones. We used some dot cards.
In the book the children catch fireflies and put them in a jar.
As Mrs Stewart read the story, Frazer moved the fireflies into the jar using the interactive whiteboard.
We discussed what equations we could write that represented the pages in the story.
We then had our own firefly story problems to solve.
We had problems for numbers within 20 and some up to 100 if we wanted a challenge. Most Superstars chose challenge questions!!
We used our think mats to solve the equations.
What a busy morning!
This week we are reading different versions of Little Red Riding Hood.
We also enjoyed watching this one from the British Council online.
We are thinking about beginnings, middles and ends in our stories. So far, we have found three different endings to the story!
We have been re-writing the story in our own words.
This Superstar made a Little Red Riding Hood, with this week’s spelling words in her basket, for her homework.
Next week we will be doing Little Red Riding Hood maths.
Leave us a comment to let us know which fairytale you like best.
We are learning about sound in our science lessons. We have been experimenting with loud and quiet sounds and learning about volume and pitch.
Today, Mrs Stewart gave us some pictures of musical instruments and we had to sort them into groups. She didn’t give us any clues but told us there were four groups. Being very clever, we all managed to work out that we sorted the groups depending on how the instruments were played.
We had lots of fun experimenting with different instruments. We decided we would be a marching band and went outside and marched around the school playing our instruments!! Unfortunately, the camera decided not to work so we can’t show you our pictures.
We had a look at this great website, from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, which teaches you about different parts of the orchestra and has lots of different musical activities. We especially liked the Performalator. We are all going to try it out when we are next in the computer room.
Here is our finished display of the trolls, after we had added their bodies.
We also added the advice that we gave to the troll on how to make friends.
They are in the entrance foyer of our school. Don’t trip trap too close!!
Today, we received a letter from the Troll!!
He told us that he was very unhappy because he had no friends and was a bit lonely living under a cold, smelly bridge. The Troll asked if the Superstars could give him some advice on how to make some friends. Some of the Superstars felt so sorry for him they decided they would make the Troll their friend.
Here’s a selection of their advice.
“Dear Mr Troll, if you wash your hands and wash your body and cut your nails every day you will be nice and clean and people will like you.” Kyle
“Dear Mrs Troll, if I come trip trapping over your bridge I will give you a sweet and then I will be your friend.” Ellamae
“Dear Mr Troll, you should be a nicer troll and be kind. Do not shout at people and show them respect.” Kaitlyn
“Dear Mr Troll, I think you should come to my class and play with me.” Jack
Here are some pictures of us pondering our advice!
One of our Superstars has been very busy at home over the past few weeks.
First, he built this beanstalk at his Granny’s house.
Jack is climbing the beanstalk and can you see the rocket at the side to take him quickly to the top?
Last Friday the whole class made some troll heads.
Well, we were going to leave them like that but then we saw this idea …
We thought this troll was amazing and liked this Superstar’s idea so much that we are going to add bodies to ours too.
We will post some pictures when we are finished.
Mrs Stewart loves having such a creative class!
The school council have been thinking about things we can do during wet playtimes and lunchtimes. They are thinking about giving a special box to each class with things they would like to do.
We often use sticky notes to record our thoughts in class but today we used a special application called Padlet (formerly called Wallwisher).
We think this has lots of uses and will be using it to plan our learning very soon!
We got some lovely feedback on our blog from the Times Educational Supplement’s iboard and they have been tweeting about us on their Twitter feed. Here is what they have been saying.
Inspiring class blog from Mrs Stewart’s Superstars – so much quality learning going on here! ow.ly/hJPTd
— TES Early Years (@TESEarlyYears) February 17, 2013
@geordiecat2012 we are amazed by this teacher – ow.ly/hOMXh – a mash up of TES iboard and fantastic EY/KS1 best practice learning
— TESiboard (@TESiboard) February 18, 2013
TESiboard would like to go back to school and join this class of brilliant learners – ow.ly/hQdNA
— TESiboard (@TESiboard) February 19, 2013
Thank you i-board. We have just seen your paint a dragon resource for Chinese New Year and will be using it when we are back at school on Wednesday!
Superstars, use this link to practise some Fairytale activities at home.
You can watch and listen to the story of “Goldilocks and the 3 Bears”, create a scene from Goldilocks or practise some 3 bears measurement.
Have fun!
