It was a very busy week in our class with fireworks, new sounds and more. We can’t believe that is us in November already! Please take a look at what we have been doing.
Fireworks was a big theme in our classroom this week as it was Bonfire Night on Tuesday. We liked talking about what we were doing for this and where we were going to watch the fireworks. In class we read a firework story and created our own firework poems (you can read about this further on in the blog). We were able to make our own fireworks in the tuff tray using different coloured chalk. We also watched a Disneyland fireworks show to give us inspiration of drawing our own fireworks picture. We discussed the shapes, colours, sounds and sizes of them. We used oil pastels to create our works of art.
In Literacy we have been learning the sounds: ‘fl’, ‘gl’, ‘br’ and ‘cr’ this week. We did well in creating our own sentences with our new sounds and finding all the ‘br’ pictures. We were able to spot ‘fl’ words in a postcard that was sent to the class and write ‘fl’ words in the fluffy foam. The fluffy foam was so soft and smooth to write our words in. Since it was Bonfire Night we created a piece of writing that was firework themed. We wrote our own acrostic poems. Miss Muir even read out a firework poem to us. We closed our eyes and imagined the fireworks which helped us to discover how important it is to use describing words in our writing. We were then able to describe the sounds and colours fireworks make and write these in our own poems. Miss Muir was impressed with the different words we were able to come up with and how hard we tried to include describing words.
In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been continuing with our learning of 2D shapes and learned some new ones: pentagons, hexagons and octagons. We discovered how many sides and corners they had. Some of us even learned what a nonagon was! We had fun trying to draw these. Miss Muir even had a go at drawing one. During free play we have enjoyed making our own shape pictures and posters to show our learning. We have also used shapes to complete and create our own patterns. Our class mind map of 2D shapes is looking very full now on our wall this means we have had to start a new mind map for our 3D shape learning. Thank you to those who came to our Number Talks event, we enjoyed having visitors in our classroom and we hoped you enjoyed coming along too.
In Science with Mrs Bergarnie we learned about pitch. We made our own instruments using tubs and elastic bands. We had to figure out which bands made a higher or lower sound. We had so much fun making these and doing our own performances in front of the class after. Some of us had even decided on names for our instruments: ‘tubguitar’, ‘bitar’, ‘harp’, ‘child designed guitar’ and ‘tubar’. We couldn’t choose as a class what our favourite name was. Do you have one?
Thank you for reading our blog. We hope you have a lovely weekend!
P2A and Miss Muir 🙂
