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Chinese New Year
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We enjoyed a variety of activities for Chinese New Year. We learnt how the calendar is names after animals, made fruit fireworks with apples depicting peace and tangerines depicting good fortune. We tried using chopsticks and opened fortune cookies. We had fun making fans and dusted the classroom to clean it for New Year. We created Dragon Kites which flew well in the wind.
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Whilst learning about Edinburgh, the Sunflower’s enjoyed following a visual map of the garden to find famous Edinburgh landmarks they have been learning about. Each child used the map to locate the pictures in the garden and went on a hunt as a team to find them.
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IDL: LGBT Month
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We are celebrating the LGBT+ community this February. Today we read a story called ‘Red: A Crayon’s Story’ which was all about a blue crayon who was wearing a red cover by mistake. Everyone expected the crayon to colour in red but it couldn’t make itself be red no matter how hard it tried. It taught us to always be the person we feel inside no matter what label we are given.
We found all our class crayons and ripped off their labels to ‘set them free’ then melted some crayons to make a piece of art work showing all the true colours of every crayon as they mixed together.
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IDL: Outdoor Learning
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As part of our school’s ’50 things to do outdoors’ initiative, we embraced the winter cold today to feel the earth on our barefeet! It was lots of fun and we enjoyed trying to think of adjectives to help describe all the things we could feel on our feet.
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Chinese New Year
We celebrated Chinese New Year on Tuesday. This year is the year of the tiger we created some tiger bunting for our board by colouring in a tiger picture and we created a tiger face using different pieces of paper. The children were confident individuals looking at the image on the board and then using the pieces to create their own face.
We cleaned the classroom, made lanterns and used black and orange icing to crate tiger faces on biscuits.
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Chinese New Year in the Snowdrops
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The Snowdrops have all shown lots of interest in exploring pictures and visual aids all about the Chinese New Year. Everyone responded well to creating Chinese crafts and had fun dressing up and listening to Chinese music.
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During Numeracy time, the Sunflower’s were practicing ordering numbered images. Our Scottish story this week was ‘Hamish The Hairy Haggis’ and after story time, each child was given a set of numbered images from the story to sort. Some children practiced number matching whilst others ordered images from 0-30. It was a team effort, excellent work Sunflowers!!
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Making Shortbread
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As part of our Scotland theme tasks, the Sunflower’s loved baking some shortbread in cookery. Each child was able to help weigh and add ingredients to the mixing bowling using visual and spoken instructions. Everyone had a turn at rolling out the dough with a rolling pin and pressing down a cutter to create a shaped piece of shortbread. The shortbread was put in the oven and we loved tasting it at afternoon snack time.
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50 Activities – Stone Painting (38)
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We had a treasure hunt in the garden to find stones to paint then looked on the internet for ideas of patterns to paint on them. Hope you like our designs.
