One of our challenges this week has been to make a den for the teddy with the sticks. It was quite tricky. It taught us to plan, think and have resilience. Once they learned how to do it, the “den experts” helped others.
We needed to find sticks for our activities next week. We also chose a tree and we will take a photo of it every month to see it change.
We learned that if you look back at a tree through your legs and can see the whole tree, then if you measure to the tree, then that is it’s height!
We observed the twigs under the digital microscope t see if anything was living on them and to see the different parts of the twigs.
The class tree.
We had a feel of our bones today. The felt all knobbly and bobbly. We knew that our ribs protected our lungs. we didn’t know that children’s bones are “bendy” and aren’t fully formed. We looked at an x ray of an adult hand and a child’s hand and compared the differences.
We made our skeletons with cotton buds.
We have been looking at bones in the class, following on from our look at fossils. We even have ” Mr Bones” the skeleton in class! Bones are amazing!
We had number challenges in the tuff tray and had to make the correct stories. It was tricky!
On a Friday, we usually do a hot seat and tell everyone what we have learned this week. Today, we went outside in the sunshine and wrote examples of what we have learned. Lots of adding stories and tens and units!
We have been fascinated with fossils in 2.6. Some children have brought some things in for us to have a look at under the digital microscope. They are so cool.
We learn our phonics and spelling actively in class. There are so many ways to do this. here are just a few examples of what we do in class. There are so many ways to learn!
Boggle: The first letter is given and you then have to use the available letters in the box to make words with three or more letters.
Writing in rice.
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Making our words with play doh.
Writing our curly words.
Making our words with play doh.
Writing our words with dots.
We write in class all the time, but on our special writing day, we focus on spelling, finger spaces, full stops and capital letters. All attempts are welcome and praised . Some of us have a “rubber habit” , when we need to rub out every two seconds! This is discouraged! We learn from our mistakes for next time! Almost all of the children are now writing independently.
Some of us have been learning about tens and units . We know that we can never have more than 9 units (or it has to become 1 ten!) It is really tricky, but we are getting there. : )
