Halloween had definitely landed in our classroom this week! We had fun creating our potions made out of all sorts of spooky things and pretending to be a witch. There might have been a spider or two as well! We also had our Spooky Event. Miss Muir thought our costumes were fantastic and couldn’t recognise some of us. We danced, listened to a story read by Mr Wells, turned people into mummy’s and had food. It was a busy afternoon! By the end we were feeling a little tired after all the dancing and fun we had.
In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been finishing our numbers to 100 topic this week and been showing off all our learning to Miss Muir. Last week we counted in 2’s and 10’s as well as estimating and rounding using a number line to help us. We are excited to be starting 2D and 3D shapes over the coming week. We enjoyed the shape ‘feely bag’. We had to close our eyes and pick out a shape and guess what the shape was without looking at it. We were also able to discuss and explain how many sides certain 2D shapes have. We created shape Haunted Houses where we had to find and identify 2D shapes. Some of them looked very spooky. During Number Talks we have been taking part in ‘Esti Mysteries’ in a slightly different way. We don’t have any clues so we have to estimate how many objects there are on our first guess. We then compare our answer to another jar with objects and estimate how many objects are in the other jar. This has helped us to compare and demonstrate our learning of using terms such as ‘more’, ‘less’ and ‘between’.
We read a story called ‘Funnybones’ as a class. It is about a family of skeletons who go out and about wanting to frighten people but end up at the park frightening each other. In our writing we created an imaginative story using the Funnybones characters. We had to think of other places the skeletons could have visited. We came up with so many: the library, flying into space, a yacht an enchanted forest and go karting. Miss Muir was pleased at how hard we worked to include descriptive words and write in one of our sentences ‘dark, dark’ like it did in the story. During free play we also had the chance to create a house out of wooden blocks for the skeleton family. We have been learning new sounds: ‘bl’, ‘cl’,’ng’ and ‘nk’ this week. We were able to write ‘bl’ words on the black blots and write our words in the blue glitter. We had lots of fun with the glitter. The carpet saw a lot of it too!
We hope you have a great weekend! P2A and Miss Muir 🙂
