In music today, Mrs Fingland taught us about the composer John Williams. We listened to some of his “Harry Potter” music and some of his “Jaws”music. We learned that music helps tell a story and that it is the composer’s job to help add to the story with music. Music can help us feel excited in a film.
We were making beetles with Mrs Hillan. We had to cut out the body parts. It was quite tricky, but we have been doing lots of practise with scissors this week. We then had to decorate the head, thorax and body. They looked beautiful in the end.
We were learning about directions today and used the Codapillars. We had to put the different parts on to tell the Codapillars which way to go. We tried to,program them to go from one child to another . It was great fun to do. We got better with practise. It gave us lots of discussion!
We had a go at creating our own calculations today. We threw dice on the table and added the numbers shown. We were very confident during this activity.
We have new activities this week that the children asked for last week. Our shop is very popular and we are selling lots of different things. They are all real. This is good for learning to use money and for rôle play. Everything we use is real. The hammer beads are good for making patterns. We are learning new words in our Jolly Phonics . The Kapla is always popular for building and being creative and building. We have also been reading this morning.
The weather was lovely last week and we took our snacks outdoors. We sat at the picnic benches and talked to our friends and munched! When we finished, we put our rubbish in the bin and our boxes back in our baskets in class. Then we played in the sunshine. ☀
Mondays are usually exploring days in P1.3. We have new activities in class and we get to explore them. Today we are making the babies for “Mrs Lather’s Laundry”; building with the Kapla; building at the workbench; playing with games and playing in Mrs Lather’s Laundry. We also do our reading on a Monday morning too. No wonder we are exhausted at the end of the day!
We made beautiful mosques with Mrs Hillan in Art. We had to cut the dome shapes on the fold of the paper. We then had to dray and cut out a house shape with a door in it. It took a lot of concentration.
With Mrs Fingland today, we listened to how different instruments add to stories. The xylophone was good for pretending to go up and down stairs. The wood block was good for “tapping on the window”. We had a lot of fun.
We are loving our new set up in the house corner. We have clothes to wash, dry and iron. The children have been working well as a team to get all these troublesome jobs done ☺ If only I had such keen, little helpers at home!
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