We enjoyed reading the story of the little red hen. We drew  pictures and then used them to help us write our own stories about the little hen but in our stories the other animals wanted to help bake the bread!

Today we made winter collage pictures with different materials. There were lots of different textures to make it look icy and snowy. We got quite sticky but it we had fun creating our own pictures.

Today we drew story pictures telling the story of having a snowball fight. We put lots of detail in our pictures to help us write our story and we shared them with each other. We were then able to share our friend’s story with the class.

Today we took our igloos home. We made them out of clay and had to leave them to dry for a few days  before we painted them. We molded the clay with our hands and then used tools to make the blocks. We have been learning about how water changes when it gets cold and the different things we can do with it.

Today we explored how to free some dinosaurs that were frozen in ice.

We watched them melting, we bashed them to try and break the ice and we used salt to see if that would make the ice melt faster.

“We could use salt to melt the ice because that’s what the lorrys use.” – Jacob

Today we had a surprise visit from some snowmen.

We had to work in groups to decide how to help our snowman not to melt. Some of us thought putting a coat on him would make him warm and so he would melt. Others thought a coat might stop him from melting so fast. Lots of us thought that using foil as a space blanket would help. We had to give our snowman a name and look after him for the day.

Our experiment showed that the snowman with the coat melted more slowly than the snowman without a coat.

‘The coat kept the warmness out ‘ – Tommy

‘And it kept the coldness in’ – Ronan

We started our new IDL topic looking at water in its different forms. We had lots of fun exploring the snow in the playground.

‘It’s like plasticine – you can make things with it’ – Robin

‘When you hold it tight it melts’ – Finlay

‘If you cover the ice with more snow it takes longer to melt’ – Jacob

‘When the ice melts it turns into water’ – Celeste

‘Crystals help the snow to stick together’ – Robin

When we were inside we made igloos with the blocks.

We came up with lots of ideas of how to explore water, snow and ice as a class. We would like to find out about snowy places, have snowmen in the classroom, find out how ice melts, find out about snowflakes, play with ice, build our own igloo.

We have had a busy first week of 2018. Look at all we have learned to do. We have worked hard on our handwriting and have found different ways of practising how to form our letters correctly. We have explored how to use the Waxy Doodles that Santa brought us for Christmas. These will really help our fine motor skills.

We have been learning how to tell the time by exploring the clock face and looking at digital clocks. We made clocks and can use them to show 1 o’clock, 3 o’clock etc. We also explored how long a minute was by doing different actions and timing them. It was very hard to do star jumps for a whole minute!

Today in class we explored and created symmetrical patterns. We learned that for something to be symmetrical it had to be the same on both sides if you put a line down the middle.

To finish off our Toy topic we made toys out of junk. We had to do a lot of problem solving to work out how to make a toy from the junk that we had, then we had to use our cutting skills to make the shapes that we needed.

After we had finished making our toys we had to tell our class what we had made and how it moved.