Our Holi Celebrations

We have been learning about the Hindu festival of Holi.

During this festival, people throw paint over each other. The children wanted to do this too, but we agreed to splatter paint on big pieces of paper in the playground.

Sorry there are no photos, but while doing this, the wind started to blow wildly -much to the children’s amusement! Chaos entailed!

Sorry for any paint on children!

Puppets

We are going to make some puppets.

To start us off, we made some finger puppets.

We have now also made stick puppets.

This entailed us having to paint an egg for the head and decorating it with wool or felt for hair/hat. We then had to saw wood (25cm long) for the body and then covering it with material. (Thank you Mrs Gillies for the help!) We also had to attach another smaller piece of wood for an arm.

Hey Presto- a stick puppet!

Measure

We have been learning measure in class. We have done volume. Some of us have been looking at litres and half litres, while others have been measuring with cups and spoons

We have also been looking at weight. Some of us have been measuring weight with kg and half kg, while others have weighed with cubes, pegs and beans.

We are now measuring length. Some of us are using metres and half metres, while others have been using hands and feet.