We tried some activities like – drawing circles on paper; taking a pencil from the pencil pot and putting it back; building a tower of five cubes, using the same colour; hopping and jumping and clapping.  These activities were all very easy but then we tried them again with our eyes tight shut.  Some of them suddenly became very tricky.

Brooke – building a tower of five cubes with your eyes shut was hard because you had to get the same colour.

Zoe – drawing the circle on the piece of paper with your eyes shut was difficult as you drew different shapes.

Darcy – taking the pencil out and putting it back was tricky with your eyes shut.

We discovered that for some activities we need our eyes and our hands to communicate with our brains to make them easy.  This is called hand-eye co-ordination.

What’s going on inside

This was a great activity, we had to draw round someone in our group, then we thought about what we know about our bodies, we looked closely at our bodies, we listened to our friends bodies to see if we could work out what parts are inside our bodies and draw them on the person on the paper.  We did really well, but we didn’t get everything correct.  Mrs Horne showed us pictures on the SMARTboard so we could see where the organs really were.

Shadows

We spent some time outside in the sunshine investigating our shadows; we checked they belonged to us by watching closely that they did everything we did.  We tried to make interesting shadow shapes and we also tried to jump on our friends’ shadow, but they had to stop us.  Finally we tried making ‘shadow monsters’ but the sun decided to go behind a cloud and spoiled our fun.

Judo

This week we have had a lot of fun activities too – the firs tone of these was on Wednesday.  We had a Judo taster session, we all had great fun.