This week we have fully embraced the changes to our classroom. Each week some of the main areas in our classroom are changed to offer different learning experiences. We are going to share the highlights of these areas:<\/p>\n
Investigation Station<\/u><\/p>\n
Learning focus – measuring, ordering, sorting<\/p>\n
Rojin: You need to put the things in the plates in the thing to make the balance.<\/p>\n
Lucas: it is a measuring thing.<\/p>\n
Carter: it is called scales.<\/p>\n
Shea: it is space rocks in the plate.<\/p>\n
Roma: you need to make them balance. I put 3 little beads in one bit and 3 green beads in the other bit and it didn\u2019t balance. One bit went down when I added another and that meant it was heavy.<\/p>\n
Logan: I made it balance with rocks and beads.<\/p>\n
Table Top Games<\/u><\/p>\n
Learning focus: counting, addition and subtraction skills. (Jigsaws –\u00a0developing\u00a0visual perceptual\u00a0skills.)<\/p>\n
Anna: one was a magic game. It was magic because when you rubbed on a bit then it would leave a number. You had to answer the question and find the answer.<\/p>\n
Roma: I done the animal jigsaw with my friends \u2013 Rojin, Freya and Jane.<\/p>\n
Scott: There is a space jigsaw. I had to put the pieces all together.<\/p>\n
Carter: Me and Anna finished that jigsaw. Anna started it and I came to help. It was quite tricky.<\/p>\n
Paul: Earth is third planet away from the sun.<\/p>\n
Maths Table<\/u><\/p>\n
Learning focus – symmetry<\/p>\n
Jane: we had to make symmetrical pictures.<\/p>\n
Luke: it means it has to be the same on the 2 sides.<\/p>\n
Roma: I put 2 flowers on one side and put 2 gems on the bottom and I copied it on the other side too.<\/p>\n
Carter: I done green beads and put a chain in the middle and a flower at one side and a flower at the other side.<\/p>\n
Tuff Tray<\/u><\/p>\n
Learning focus – creativity, reinforcing the names of planets<\/p>\n
Igor: we had to build a rocket for an astronaut. The rocket would go to Earth.<\/p>\n
Shea: My rocket went to Mars. First I had 2 full big ramps at the bottom of it and a head at the front and a massive long red bit at the side on top of the little hills.<\/p>\n
Layla: Mine went to the moon. It had yellow on it.<\/p>\n
Fiddly Fingers<\/u><\/p>\n
Learning focus: fine motor skills<\/p>\n
Pati: there were small things put it together. It made a necklace.<\/p>\n
Lucas: they were paperclips.<\/p>\n
Rojin: I made a bracelet. It was tricky putting them together.<\/p>\n
Roma: We had the marbles and the colourful pegs that you stick in the blue mats and you have to get the marble and balance on top.<\/p>\n
Rainbow Learning<\/u><\/p>\n
Scott: For the red rainbow learning you had to write sight words.<\/p>\n
Anna: For the yellow rainbow learning you had to do a subtraction colouring in.<\/p>\n
Pati: On the blue you had to catch the fish.<\/p>\n
If the subtraction story was 8-4, you would have 8 fish to start with and you would take away 4 and you would have 4 left.<\/p>\n
Amelia: On the green rainbow learning we played a smart board game tells us a word and we need to find it. When you finish you write down the score. I bet Mrs Davenport\u2019s score.<\/p>\n
Here is a link to the game. Mrs Davenport’s score was 379, can you beat this?<\/p>\n
Amelia’s sore was 400, can you beat this?<\/p>\n
http:\/\/flash.topmarks.co.uk\/4151<\/p>\n
Lucas: On the pink rainbow learning we were thinking about what we want to be when we grow up. You had to draw a picture of what you wanted to be when you grow up.<\/p>\n
Freya: You need to get a glue stick and stick the pom-poms or stars and you would need to make the shape and pick out the picture and stick the pom-poms on. It was called a constellation.<\/p>\n
Numeracy<\/u><\/p>\n
Luke: We have been taking away.<\/p>\n
Anna: You had to roll the dice and the biggest number had to write in and then the smallest number next. You were making a subtraction story.<\/p>\n
Shea: The biggest number needs to go first because if it was 2 – 5 it wouldn\u2019t make any sense. It would need to be 5 \u2013 2.<\/p>\n
Try this at home – roll 2 dice and put these numbers into a subtraction story. Challenge: roll 4 dice (first add together 2 of the dice and add together the other 2 side), use these numbers to create a subtraction story.<\/p>\n
Phonics<\/u><\/p>\n
Carter: we learning about syllables.<\/p>\n
Lucas: it is clapping that makes a word.<\/p>\n
Shea: the words are split up.<\/p>\n
Amelia: my name has 4 syllables.<\/p>\n
Layal: my name has 2 syllables.<\/p>\n
Jane: my name has 1 syllable.<\/p>\n
We loved watching this video to help us understand syllables:<\/p>\n