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Category Archives: Play
Dinosaur fun!
We have had a busy start to the week trialling our task board. We have a range of dinosaur related activities to discover and explore.
Literacy
We have been learning about alphabetical order. We organised our tricky words into alphabetical order and wrote them on our whiteboards. Some of us worked independently to sort some words alphabetically.
We finished S.T.E.M fortnight by taking part in five, fun S.T.E.M activities. We enjoyed our afternoon working together, learning and having fun!
The activities we did were:
3D Shapes – we used matchsticks and play dough to make some 3D shapes like cubes and cuboids.
Lego – we had to make our names using Lego.
Floating Ball – using a straw and a piece of paper we had to create something that would make a tin foil ball float! This was tricky.
Making Bridges – our challenge here was to create bridges for our teddy bears to cross using cups and lollipop sticks. How many teddies will our bridge support?
Marble run – We had to work together and use the pipes and try and get the marbles from one side of the sand pit to the other!
We will get a chance this week to try challenges we haven’t done yet.
Bird feeders
We put the bird feeders that we made outside in the Eco garden and around the school. It is important to help feed the birds as there is not a lot of food just now for them.
Percy the Park Keeper
This term we are looking at parks and our local environment. So far we have talked about all the different parks we have visited, what we can see and do there and what animals might live in the park. This will help us when we come to designing and making our own mini parks!
We have also been reading Percy the Park Keeper stories and have created our very own Percy Hut! However, silly Mrs Hamilton forgot to leave mugs and a kettle in the hut! Apparently Percy and the park animals need their hot cocoa!
Responding to children’s needs
We are constantly listening to the children and seeing how they learn best. If it means we have to change the room, then we do it. The children especially work well with imaginative play and construction. We used the water beads to learn about volume and we have learned about questionnaires and tally marks and we have been practising our number stories.
We have created a living room with a sofa and books to read and a cafe area – the play doh cakes are delicious!! 😁
So much to learn, so little time!
We are always busy learning in different ways in 1.4 and our class changes according to our needs. We love seeing what new things we have to learn within class. We often make special requests. 😃
Snowman Challenge
It snowed. You may have noticed. Then it snowed again. Our playground very quickly filled up with lots of snow. Miss Hunter set all the boys and girls a challenge: to build the best snowman! We put all of our winter clothes and boots on and out we went. Yes, it was cold; yes, we dropped our timetable and yes, we had a lot of fun! We used teamwork to build our brilliant pirate snowman.
The Space Station
“What could we add to our room?” We asked the children.
“A rocket !” Replied the vast majority. What can we say? It was a challenge!
We made our first space station and it was a great success, with
lots of “astronauts” visiting and recording things in the log book.
Then, a new piece of furniture arrived. ” Let’s add it to the space station! ” we thought. A great success was born. It has lead us in many different directions. We now have space discussions and can tell you all about the moon and gravity. Amazing!
