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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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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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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.
This year for Chinese New Year it is the year of the Tiger, we worked on our fine motor skills to complete some art activities. We created a tiger and a fan which we were confident individuals completing a Chinese dance using our fans. We sampled some Chinese food and created fruit kebabs to represent Peace, Good Luck and Happiness.
This term one of our 50 things outdoor learning experiences was to explore the feeling of being windswept. It certainly has been a week to experience this, we were all successful learners in making our Scotland flags wave proudly in the wind. Also experience our multi coloured cape flying in the wind whilst we ran.
As part of our topic this term, we watched the film Brave and carried out our own film review of it.
We answered questions on which was our favourite character, scene and whether we enjoyed the film or not.
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We followed the recipe by putting milk, sugar and vanilla extract in a zipped bag. We put this in another zipped bag with ice and salt. After taking turns to give the bag a good shake the milk froze to make ice cream. It tasted rather good and most pupils asked for extra spoonfuls!
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A group of Snowdrops headed out into the garden to see what they could find. A Gruffalo had passed through on his way to Glasgow and he had left some numbered footprints on the ground…but some were missing. The Gruffalo had visited lots of places in the garden and the Snowdrops had fun collecting the numbered footprints and slotting them in order along the number line. Along the way they also found some of the other animals from the Gruffalo story and did a great job of counting out how many they had found. Back in class, the Snowdrops continued practising their numeracy skills with the Glasgow Gruffalo and friends.
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Today, the Sunflower’s enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. As a class, we watched the dragon dance that takes place each year and we then made our own dragons to dance along to the music. Afterwards, each child took part in some sensory play and practiced using tweezers to lift noodles. Red and gold are lucky colours at Chinese New Year and we played with our lucky red playdough alongside golden rice. Some children practiced tracing Chinese numbers in rice too!
