When we review our day, Mrs Arbuckle is often told “we haven’t done any work today!” This makes her smile. Play makes us learn so much, but we don’t realise it’s work! Balancing nuts and bolts? That will be maths. Building a den? That will be STEM. Looking at our plants with magnifying glasses? That will be science. Touching the meteors and the moon rocks? That will be STEM. Reading stories? That will be literacy…… and so it goes….😁👍
We have continued our contstruction and developed it into becoming engineers. We have lots of tubes, ramps, balls and cars and we have made lots of structures. Some made rollercoasters; some made roads; some made bridges. we used our imagination.
The children asked for a castle in the classroom, so this week it is slowly coming together. There have been cries of “Fi, fi, foe, fum!” and lots of role play. Today we looked at flags and their importance and linked them to the Winter Olympics. We then designed our own flags for the castle. It is a work in progress. We’ll keep you informed. 😁
The children had decided that they wanted to learn about fairytales and they wanted to make a castle in class. We watched the story about “Jack and The Beanstalk” and talked about the story. We then printed with paint on paper to create the “brick” effect for our castle. We looked at the design of castles and drew pictures of them them and we built castles using the Lego and the blocks. We will be planting our own beans in science after Easter. Mrs Arbuckle loved the comment, “Well, this is fun!” Children should enjoy their learning.
