We had a lovely week exploring books, joining in on live events like “Matilda” and we really enjoyed hearing Matilda singing her song on a pile of books that moved up and down on the stage.
It has been interesting learning who is behind each book on the bookshelf and finding out what children’s books the staff enjoy reading. Mrs McGilp made the bookshelf and we will continue to peek behind the books until we have opened them all. Our challenge will be to remember who is behind each book!
We made dog sock puppets and backgrounds then we had so much fun playing with our puppets. It was amazing to be able to enter into another world and our dogs got up to all sorts of adventures. One of them even had an adventure under the sea!
A highlight for many of us was just having the time to explore, share and enjoy the favourite books we had brought in from home.
Mrs Istephan read us a story on Thursday afternoon and it was a real treat having a visitor reading to us. She read us a story about a dog that thinks it is a ballerina. It was very funny!
In Art we looked at Claude Monet’s water lilies watercolours. It was amazing that they were huge panels when we usually think of watercolour paintings as being dainty. He also worked in the Impressionist style where he dabbed on little lines of colour to build up the lilies and the water they were floating on.
We created our own version of the water lilies in the Impressionist style by using felt tipped pens on clay tiles. This also linked in with our recent learning about tiling in Maths.
In Numeracy we have almost completed learning about numbers to 100 but, we will continue to revisit this throughout the year.
We have been exploring thinking skills in Maths and we started off by thinking about the number 8 and how we can make it in many combinations. At first we made random number bonds and drew the picture of the sum using cubes. Then we talked about being more systematic and writing our sums out in an ordered sequence.
Being systematic in setting out the combinations of number bonds will help us to make sure we have not missed any out and it can help us to see very quickly if we have.
Our iPad session was fun too. We continued to explore the Notes app and this week we photographed our sock puppets then added text around the image to show the materials we need to make them.
As this was our third session using the Notes app most of us were independent and did not need much help from adults. We are also getting much better at helping each other out and being really supportive learning partners.
In P2/3 we had the privilege of having Stephen Graham , who works with the PM Writing and Reading schemes we are using in school. He worked with a reading group and they explored a non-fiction book about trees.
He was amazed by the super readers we have, the lovely manners the group have and by the enthusiasm the children have for reading.
Well done everyone! You have been super role models this week.
Mrs Ryalls has built up the suspense this week and we have been so excited about seeing what her display of our Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury would look like. We are so proud of ourselves because it has turned out to be a beautiful display. It is just outside our classroom and it helps us to feel very calm whenever we look at it. Thank you, Mrs Ryalls!
