As you will see on Twitter (and possible heard in the playground!) P1A became environmental campaigners this week. We have been learning about the Polar Bears who live on Hudson Bay in Canada and how Global Warming is melting the ice that they travel across to find food.
We have been investigating the properties of water using lots of ice in our water tank – we have worked out how to get bits of ice to stick together and we’ve even made ice bridges, just like the ones we researched online.
We created habitats for the arctic animals – we know that Polar Bears and penguins do not live in the same place and we used the globe to track the routes that the Polar Bears take to head north.
For Diwali we have been making Rangoli Patterns, we learned that Rangoli Patterns are used to welcome visitors and so we made some outdoors in the playground to welcome our grown ups at the end of the day.
In literacy, we continue to learn new sounds and build words with the sounds that we know.
In Maths we are building our number knowledge using a range of different activities.
Miss Bishop has been teaching us to code using Scratch.
We have enjoyed being outdoors where we are learning to work collaboratively.
Our buildings in the construction area are becoming more detailed and elaborate all of the time.
This week we have introduced Learning Targets in our classroom – so just in case anyone has been hearing about blue and red people and wondering what we have been up to, this is our new target board. During some lessons, the children are set a task for them to complete independently. Once they have completed their task, they take their little person off the board. This is one of the steps towards building independent learners who are managing their own learning. It is very early days with this, but so far the children have been doing a fantastic job.
The take home folders came home today – please take the time to look through this with your child, fill out the form at the front and then please return the jotter and workbook (s) with the form in the folder on Monday. The worksheets should be kept at home.
Have a great weekend and I look forward to catching up with everyone in our Parent’s Night conversations next week.
