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What a marvellous afternoon of music making we enjoyed today!
Our first activity involved word making using stones and we were amazed at just how many words we could make out of ten stones!
We then focused on investigating rhythms …. and after that we moved on to creating some wonderful sounds using natural materials. I am sure you will agree we sound great!
Despite the strange weather this afternoon we managed to pack in plenty of learning outside using lots of natural materials. We explored patterns in multiplication tables, consolidated our understanding of place value and extended that into some challenging mental maths problems.
We then moved on to making buttercup trees working together in teams to collect buttercups and exchange for twigs and sticks via our buttercup, stick and branch shops. 😊
The weather threatened to soak us for the whole afternoon, but we were very fortunate that it decided to spare us and let us enjoy a dry session outdoors!
We started off discussing colour, how colours change, shades of different colours and names of different colours. This was a great extension of the learning we had been doing in class with Miss Trouten earlier on in the day on Van Gogh.
After that we used some old supermarket brochures and worked on some colour matching. It really is amazing how many different colours we found outside in nature.
We then moved on to create some daisies and our own flowers using very little paint and natural paintbrushes, like buttercups, wild plantain and daisies themselves! I am sure you will agree our creations are fabulous!
The weather was sunny and warm this afternoon as we searched and studied some mini beasts. There were lots of them crawling and flying and squirming around today so we think they like nice sunny days too.
We used magnifying glasses to study them in detail and noticed lots of interesting things about each one we saw. We learned that centipedes have only one pair of legs on each segment of their bodies, while millipedes have two. We also noticed most insects have long antennae which they use to detect danger by feeling changes in air movement around them.
It it was early interesting to record our findings in detailed labelled diagrams too. There was lots of excitement and sharing of information and descriptions as we worked this afternoon too.
We have all been learning and practising multiplication tables in class, so we thought we would take it outdoors today too. We played some fun games to help us learn and see patterns in the two and four times tables.
Adjectives are marvellous words that help make our oral and written language so much more interesting. So we worked on that outside today too. Here are some photos of us exploring adjectives together.
Today we started our outdoor session by organising ourselves into a pentagon. We were fabulous at listening to each other and sorting ourselves into five straight lines. We then played some concentration games to help us learn to focus, even when other things are happening all around us.
After that we sorted ourselves out into birthday order! This took quite a bit of organisation!
Our final job was to work on adding groups of single digits and finding the total….the real challenge was exploring all the different ways we could do this. It was great listening to each other to hear all the different ways people group numbers and add numbers together.
Some people then went on to create their own games to practise number bonds and group and split numbers to find totals too.
What a glorious afternoon to spend outside learning today. After searching for circles, arranging ourselves into a circle and discussing the properties of a circle we learned that the distance between the centre and the side of a circle is called the radius.
We then played some warm up games involving passing names round in a clockwise and anti clockwise direction before moving on to re enforcing some of our previous learning on time.
We made a giant clock and acted out how the hands move round each hour.
We then added numbers and analogue and digital times round the outside.
Finally we made our own mini clocks to show different times and help work out how long it was between two different times.
What a difference a week makes with the weather! We had a lovely afternoon of dry and cool weather and even a little sunshine. 😎
Firstly we played some warm up games and practised rounding numbers to the nearest ten. We definitely got faster the more we played and are now rounding experts. 👍
Next we revisited our learning from last week on angles and showed our understanding by playing some games then by creating shapes and identifying the types of angles in the shapes. We marked acute angles with stones, right angles with shells and obtuse angles with cones. Mrs Kelly set us some challenges and we worked really well in teams to show what we had learned.
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