We looked at 2D Shape last week and now it’s the turn of 3D shapes. It was a bit more tricky. We have looked at lots of different real life 3D shapes and played lots of games. We also had fun building with our 3D shapes.
This Week’s Mystery Reader
The brilliant Mr Tyler from Primary 6 came to read to us this week. He is not only a science expert, but also a lover of books. He read two books to us- ” Frog Is Sad” by Max Velthuijs and “The Incredible Book Eating Boy” by Oliver Jeffers. He even brought in a book that the Incredible Book Eating Boy had taken a bite out of! Amazing!
2D shape Walk – The Sequel
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.
Hansel and Gretel activities
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.
2D Shapes
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.
Dress as you please day for Malawi
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.
Mystery Readers
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!
Making Maths Fun
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!
Learning to Write
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!)
Goldilocks Interview
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.
