We have went dinosaur mad this week. We have had lots of fun learning about dinosaurs and much more. Please take a look at what we have been up to.
We had some special visitors in our class over the weekend. We discovered dinosaur footprints in our classroom as we came in on Monday morning! We have had fun during free play playing with the dinosaurs in our tuff tray and making dinosaur shows in our theatre. As a class we have been learning what a dinosaur is and what extinct means. We then looked at what animals today are endangered and who could become extinct in the future. We enjoyed working in groups trying to think of animals we know that are endangered. We created our own dinosaur fact cards where we could choose the dinosaur we wanted to find out more information about. Miss Muir played a clip called the Triceratops rap which was funny and very catchy. It helped us remember how many horns they have!
In Literacy we have been learning the sounds: ‘pl’, ‘sl’, ‘dr’ and ‘fr’ this week. We did well in blending our words and writing them in sentences. We were able to think of lots of words with our sounds, we could have done it all day! There weren’t enough frog’s lilly pads for us to write our ‘fr’ words on. Some of us were writing as many words as we could think of with our sounds during free play and creating a ‘pl’ flower in a plant pot. We enjoyed searching for silly words with Miss Muir in a Triceratops text. We learned lots about Triceratops as well as making sure we read the text carefully. Miss Muir was very impressed with how well we could find the silly words and replace them with sensible ones.
In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been continuing with our learning of 3D shapes and their properties. We learned new words: faces and edges and counted these on different 3D shapes. We had fun creating 3D shape animals. We had to work out how to make the different shapes to create our animals. In Number Talks this week we were discussing splat questions. Splat is when we see coloured circles, we count them then a splat covers some of them. We then need to say how many coloured circles are under the splat and how we reached our answer. It has been good to hear how people can see one splat in lots of different ways and it is helping us practise our addition skills too.
Thank you for reading our class blog. See you next week!
P2A and Miss Muir đŸ™‚
