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The Planets class enjoyed making crowns. We had been talking about royal headwear since we have been focusing on our Aladdin theme. We really enjoyed making these and were all brave enough to try them on!
Learning with Sensory Cards, here we identified the object, touched the sensory part, made the Makaton sign and the noise …successful learning indeed!!
MOVE in my Pacer – changing the Board to what I want to watch!!
Identifying Shapes.
Literacy – using the Color Monster characters to help describe the characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Lets have a wee chat girls!!!
Sensory Play – digging for jewels just like the dwarfs (although they did it in dirt!!)
Outside in the sunshine – a rare sight!!!
Let me help you with your jacket…
Numeracy, we used the story ‘Spinderella‘ this week, lots of counting and clapping!! We also had spiders frozen in ice – not real spiders!!!! We worked on our tolerance of having the cold ice touch our skin, counted the spiders, and identified the different colours.
Which colour is your favourite?
This is the Hairy Godmother.
MOVE – In our Standing Frames watching some counting songs.
Now a note from your ECO-CAPTAIN – reduce, reuse and recycle – well I think these responsible citizens have done all that and more!! Using feed bottles to ‘Feed the Birds’. We all worked as a team on a sustainable goal SDG 17 – hope the birds like them.
The birds need water too….
IDL Art for our class display.
Turning Art into Sensory Play Fun.
Ready for home – have you had a good week?
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
The Comets were successful learners during our fairy tale story sequencing task. After listening carefully to the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears ,we were set the challenge of sorting images from the book into the correct order. We used the book to check that our answers were correct before sticking them down.
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The Planets Class enjoyed making theme related slime today! We attempted to make it blue and added silver glitter and sprinkles.
We loved mixing the solution and watching as it thickened and consistency and were all very brave at touching the slime when it was ready!
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The Planets Class enjoyed working together to create salt dough magic lamps. We split into two teams to carry out this task and really enjoyed forming the dough into lamp shapes.
We painted and decorated our magic lamps to look similar to the lamp in the film ‘Aladdin’.
Finally, we enjoyed using baking soda and vinegar to create a magical eruption from our lamps!
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The Planets class enjoyed looking closely at treasure items. We sorted them into colours and shapes using tweezers. We also enjoyed looking closely at some of them using magnifying glasses.
We learned some of their names including rubies, emeralds and sapphires and played a “can you find….?” game.
Finally, we researched our birthstones.
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The Planets Class enjoyed making their very own Rajah! We used painted the paper plates orange and cut out shapes to make the tiger’s features and stripes. We had fun doing this!
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The Planets class loved playing a movement game today. We used the rules of musical chairs and created an Aladdin theme game of ‘Musical Magic Carpets’ which we all really enjoyed.
Everyone loved joining in and finding a magic carpet to sit on when the music stopped.
Finally, we enjoyed some Bollywood style dancing to end our move and groove session.
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The Planets class enjoyed looking closely at Princess Jasmine’s clothing and make up. We looked at materials that would be used for her outfits and attempted to make our own jewelled designs on our faces using sticky gems.
Finally, we looked closely at mehndi patterns on hands, followed the pencil control patterns and created our own. We also enjoyed a calming hand massage.
Our IDL theme work this term is based on Beauty and the Beast, accepting everyone and not judging someone by the way they look.
We looked at the main characters and discussed how they looked at different sections of the story.
Our theme is do not judge someone but take the time to get to know them first. Be confident individuals and celebrate what makes us a good friend.
We discussed what qualities are in a good friend, then thought about what is our own best quality is. We shared this with the class and then told everyone who our best friend is. We then took part in some activities that our friends like to do.
We planted our very on rose seeds and made some flowers from a variety of shapes.
Everyone chose their favourite character and everyone wanted to be the Beast.
