More children got the chance to do a 2D shape walk around the school. We were like little magical fairies as we tiptoed around and sneaked into other people’s classes. We were amazed by the range of shapes that we found… but no pentagons or hexagons, sadly.
We read the story Hansel and Gretel in class. We then took part in different activities from the story. The first activity was to design a sweetie house! We had to use ALL of the sweeties for the house!
At our investigation table we had to make a path for Hansel and Gretel so that they could find the sweetie house. We used wool and gems to show which way to go. We also decorated the sweetie house with colourful stones and gems. They were all different as we chose different colours and stones for our houses.
Today we were investigating 2D shapes. We had to find them around the school, make 2D shapes and use 2D shapes to make a picture. Have a look at what we got up to.
On Thursday we had a dress as you please day. We didn’t need to wear our uniforms and everyone brought in a donation. The money that we collected went towards the Malawi fund.
We had a brilliant visit from our Mystery Readers on Thursday. Frank and Peter, our brilliant Janitors came to read to us. They were so good. They read books all about fixing things!
We try to make the children’s learning as active as possible and we are always trying to come up with new ideas.
We learned to add today by using the droppers and putting out little pools of water onto our adding boards and writing the calculation.
We counted our pennies today, by seeing how many we could put on the lemon before it rolled. ( Today’s record was four!!)
We also continued to look at the comparison of size, using our loose parts.
All in a mornings work!
We have been learning our sounds and are trying to put the letters together to make words. We have been trying to form the letters in foam, sand, gems, and we even write in crayon, chalk, felt pen and pencil. Learning the correct formation of a letter is really important. ( No sneaky shortcuts!)
Here are a few of our questions to Goldilocks . As we drew our pictures our teacher asked us about what we wanted to say about them. Some of us write over the teacher’s writing. ( over writing) Some of us are able to copy the teachers writing. ( underwriting) Some of us are able to begin to write some words as we can sound them out to write them. It’s very early days – we’ve only been at school for a few weeks- but we all work to the best of our ability. (And it has to be fun!)
Today we listened to a trial between Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We heard the story from the point of view of Goldilocks and then the Three Bears. Judge Jenny asked questions and tried to find solutions.
Then we had a special visitor! Goldilocks came to visit our class and we were able to ask her the questions that we had come up with in our writing .
We enjoyed asking her questions to find out more about why she went into the Three Bears house and what happened when the Bears came home and found her.
We looked at how babies are welcomed in a Hindu Family. We also looked at some of the photos that some children have brought in to class. Please bring in a baby photo. We will return them when our topic is finished. 😃
We learn maths in many different ways. Sometimes, we listen to instructions; some days we cut and stick and some days, we play. Whatever we do, we always have fun learning.
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