Last week we were learning about Egyptian jewellery. We looked at the colours, styles and stones/jewels they used and we discussed our favourite pieces. Today we created our own fabulous designs using lots of arts and crafts materials (I now have a sparkly carpet! 🤣) and then we modelled them! 💎😍
After analysing mini beasts last week and seeing how they are made up of different segments, with legs and antennae, we created our own today!
We spent time looking at some of the plants growing at the back of the pitch and decided we could pick a very small amount of them without destroying the area. After that we worked in pairs to create some mini beasts on our display board.
After playtime we each created our own mini beast by gluing natural materials on to a piece of black paper. I am sure you will agree they look fabulous! Once we were happy with our own mini beasts, we could explore and create another one on the grass. What a busy day!!!
Today we wrote our own stories using a stimulus of a picture of a forest.
Here are 2 wonderful pieces by Caitlin and Logan!
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What an interesting morning we spent outdoors today.
We started off by doing a little research indoors on millipedes and centipedes before heading outside and predicting the minibeasts we might find.
After that we explored the area we were working in to find where the minibeasts might be.
Once we knew where to look, in pairs we collected a mini-beast in our boxes and, using the magnifying glasses on the boxes, we analysed them and how they moved.
Our most amazing find today was this little amphibian we managed to catch as he* hopped across the grass. His heart was beating very fast so we reckon he was quite scared, that’s why we let him go again after a minute or so in captivity. (*Mrs Kelly checked it out and he is most likely a male, as the little circle bit covering his ear, just behind his eye, is bigger than the size of his eye, which in most frog species indicates it’s a male)
Finally we recorded our findings by drawing a diagram and labelling it.
We had a few opportunities to play in amongst our busy day!
Some of the girls enjoyed playing in our class cafe and created posters and a menu. I’ll be there on Wednesday for macaroni!
The boys were fascinated by paper planes and made their own to test out.
Some also explored shape and made different models and buildings for our car area.
Today we were learning more about healthy eating. We looked at the healthy food plate and sorted foods into the correct categories. We then created our own healthy plates.
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Despite the very changeable weather, we had fun this week during our outdoor learning session as we explored and investigated adjectives and how they can be used to describe nouns.
We used our cool new re-cycled ‘clipboards’ to write down some adjectives we found outside too. Here are some photos of our day.
We were tasked by our management team to think about our work in maths but with a mindfulness twist. We never give up and always try our best. I was really impressed with the comments and discussion that the children had and thought I’d share them with you. 💡 🧠
Today we travelled outside counting up in tens. We learned and remembered that when we add or subtract ten from any number that the unit digit doesn’t change. This really helped us become more confident in counting up and down in tens.
We then moved on to placing numbers within 100 on to a giant number line. Before rounding these numbers to the nearest ten.
Finally we had lots of fun sorting out the numbers and playing some rounding games together.
