In the Active Learning Zone we have been listening to the Funnybones story. We have been talking about it being nearly Halloween. Funnybones, big skeleton, little skeleton and dog skeleton live in a dark, dark cellar. Our role play is now a dark, dark, cellar! We have torches in there too just in case it’s too dark.

At the iPad we have been listening to the Dem Bones song. We have to click on the different shaped bones to help sing the song. We have been trying to remember what some of our bones are called. Lots of us know our skull and we know that the skull protects our brain.

At the puzzle table we have been trying to put the skeletons back together again. In the story the dog skeleton falls into a pile of bones. The other skeletons have to put him back together again but they keep getting it wrong. Corey put our skeletons back together again and did a super job!

At the making table we have been using black paper and white chalk to see if we can draw the skeleton. We used the book to help us.

This term we are still thinking about all the things we need to help us learn. Last term we looked at being Successful Learners.

This term we are looking at what helps us be Confident Individuals. The first ones we have looked at are….

‘I like being with others’

I like playing with my friends in the playground.

I go to dancing with other people.

I like being with my family at home.

‘I am active’

I like playing boxing.

I play Tig.

I run about in the playground and get hot.

In class this week we have been learning all about the days of the week. We played lots of games on the white board and practised putting the days of the week in order. We worked out that they are just like a circle because they go around and around. Next, we got a sheet with all the days of the week written on them. We had to colour them in and then cut them out so that we could make a paper chain with them. We all had to think very carefullyto put the days of the week in the correct order and then we hung them up across our classroom.

   

We have also been revising our numbers. We focused on sequencing numbers 0 to 10 as well as ‘before’ and ‘after’ numbers. We are getting really good at working the answers out and some of us even managed to do the before and after numbers up to 25! During choice time some of us have been using the promethan board and Education City (remember you may have access to this at home). Carys and Maddison had lots of fun working as a team to  play the sequencing game.

Our new topic is the stories of Roald Dahl. He is an authour and he used to fly planes. He is called Roald because his mummy and daddy mispelt his name when they filled out his baby forms- we all thought this was quite funny but we liked his name. The first story which we are learning all about is The Enormous Crocodile. It is all about a crocodile who is ENORMOUS and very mean and greedy. His favourite food is children and the story is all about him trying to use his clever tricks and secret plan to catch some to eat but along the way he is very unkind to his friends but they all get there own back. It tooks us all week to read this book but we ALL loved it and it made us laugh out loud.

Once we had read it we thought that we should learn more about it so we decided to make a plan. We talked about it and we decided to use different colours of pens to show different information. The Green pen is what we wrote all the characters names down with (we chose green because the crocodile is green). Next we wrote down what we had learnt about all the characters (we did this in red because some of us said that if he eats someone there would be red blood). Then we wrote down what we knew about were they lived (we wrote this in dark blue) and then we said that we would put what we wanted to do around our room to help us learn more about the story (Wren suggested we do it in light blue because our classroom is light blue and thats how we know it was for our room activities). Lastly, we wrote done some questions we had in orange. These are things which we have wondered about as we read the story. Our teacher was really impressed with all our ideas and said that some of the words we were using were super too. She heard words like; discover, experiment, create and design! We can’t wait to get started on these next week.

If you want to listen to the story at home here are two links to you tube where you can listen to Stephen Fry tell the story. Its quite long so ling one is the first part and the second link is part two- remember is an audio book so there is no moving pictures just a voice but it is very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3dA2goH08g  (part one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqhRHM0vVEA&feature=relmfu  (part two)

Lastly, we have all gotten our first reading books for the term. We have been getting very good at sounding out words so to extend what we have been learning we have been working on a piece of writing to accompany our new book. We worked hard to write our some key words from the story or title and to draw a picture from the reading book. It was quite tricky and whilst most of us were good at sounding out the words to write or to help find them in the book we are going to work on remembering to put a space inbetween the words when we write them.

  

Week Starting 29th October 2012

• Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).
• We will send homework out on a Thursday. Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. Mrs Mackay will collect in the weeks work on Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of  3 each week. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.
• Gym is on a Monday and Thursday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed.
• ICT is on Wednesday afternoons.

Our project is ……. Roald Dahl Stories. We are looking at the story of the Enormous Crocodile this week.

This week we will be learning ;

• Jolly Phonics sounds v and y
• Measuring