Team CW
Reception Rainbows
Class blog 22-23
This week we have been learning about dinosaurs! We loved learning about this topic!
We used small world characters to make dinosaur scenes and have been looking at non-fiction books to find new facts and write them. For remote learning we wanted you to go on a “dinosaur safari.” We also wanted you to write a list of things you would need to take with you. We made dinosaur eggs that open and close in the creative area by adding a hinge with a split pin. In maths we have been learning about different ways to make seven. We used dinosaur counters and split them into two groups. We also hid one of the groups of dinosaurs to make this trickier to find the second number! We had fun singing our dinosaur song to help us!
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We have been learning that International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of women across the world. During our Inspirational History Dress Up Day we were shocked to learn that in the past women in our country did not have the same opportunities as men. Some of the children had dressed as Emmeline Pankhurst, a suffragette. We know International Women's Day celebrates the achievements that women have made to our community, country and across the world.
We learnt about Wangari Maathai, an environmentalist from Africa who was lucky to go to school and university and achieve different qualifications. We know she fought against people who were destroying the Kenyan landscape by cutting down trees, and she even went to prison. We were relieved to learn that Wangari never stopped believing, and never stopped fighting and was finally voted in as a member of parliament and able to make changes to protect the Kenyan environment. She even helped other countries to make changes and helped protect our world for future generations. We made some trees in the creative area to celebrate Wangari's achievements. We practised our cutting and snipping skills and helped develop our motor skills by twisting small bits of tissue paper into blossom flowers. Our blossom trees look beautiful! Today, Team CW were delighted that it was a snowy day! We spoke lots about the winter weather and what it felt and looked like. We went outside to explore the snow! Some of us made mini snowmen by sculpting the snow by pressing and moulding it together. We explored our footprints, rolled it into balls, made different shapes and tried to catch it on our clothes and on our tongue! We talked about what happened when it landed on different materials and what it sounded like when we walked on it. Here are some of our comments and pictures of us exploring and having lots of fun!
"The snow is getting heavier!" "The snowflakes are getting bigger." "It's starting to melt." (When it landed on the concrete) "Snowflakes are water that is frozen." "It's cold on my tongue!" "It's made out of ice and ice is made out of water." "The snow is slippery on the ground." "It won't stick because it is melting." "It was crunchy." "It crunched when I stood on it!" "It was cold!" "It is fluffy." "I made the snowman's head by rolling it." Team CW were set a homework challenge for World Book Day; to dress a potato! They had to choose their favourite book, discuss the characters, choose their favourite character from the book and describe what they look like, and finally dress their potato including as much decoration as possible! We can see how much discussion went on between parents and Rainbows and how much detail was included in their design. Here are a selection of our fantastic homework creations below! Can you guess the characters? We have been enjoying learning about animals for this half terms topic. Today we were lucky to have a visit from Mrs Wilson, the CEO of ECM Academy Trust.
Mrs Wilson told us all about the horses she keeps and how to care for them. We were able to look at some of the riding equipment Mrs Wilson uses and she demonstrated how to tack up a horse. It was a really interesting lesson and most of us had never seen equipment like this before. We learnt how to keep ourselves protected and safe when riding a horse as well and what equipment we need for this. We asked Mrs Wilson some questions about things we would like to know to too! Today we have been taking part in active maths for "Feel Good Friday,"
We practised throwing and catching and each time we caught the beanbag we said the next number. We practised counting to 20. Here are some photos of our active maths! Team CW love reading and have enjoyed reading our core book Farmer Duck!
We have all our core books for each half term displayed on our book shelf so we can sit and read with our friends! We love reading with adults too and often ask to share a book with them. Here are some of us in our reading area talking about stories, retelling them and trying to Fred Talk to read some words. Each week a child is chosen to create a Time to Shine poster at home to celebrate themselves. They can add photos, stickers, drawings and write about their family and interests. We display their poster on a display then after a week it is added to our Time to Shine folder in the reading area. You can see some Rainbows enjoying our Time to Shine folder with their friends below. Today for World Book Day the Rainbows voted for their favourite book. There were two choices and whichever book the children would prefer to listen to at story time they had to add one cube to the tower. They knew that the tower with the most cubes was the book we would read at story time.
The book with the most votes was "Can't You Sleep Little Bear." We will continue with the vote everyday! Today we have had so much fun celebrating World Book Day! First we read "Alice and Wonderland" because all the adults in class were dressed as characters from the book. Miss Clementson was the Queen of Hearts, Miss Hodgson The March Hair and Miss Hanson The Mad Hatter. One of Team CW also dressed as Alice in Wonderland to complete the characters from the story! Team CW love reading and enjoyed telling the class about their favourite character and their favourite book. Here are some of their comments;
"I like Power Rangers they save the day!" "I like Alice because she shrinks and grows very big." "Sponge Bob is my favourite because he lives under the sea." "He's a dog. He rescues people!" (Scooby Doo.) "My favourite character is Little Red Riding Hood because the Big Bad Wolf eats granny!" "He bumps his head when he falls off the ball and his hat goes flying off his head!" (The Cat in the Hat) "The fox rescues the mole from the water and is kind." "I like him 'cos he's silly and he likes chocolate like me!" (Willy Wonka) "He goes on the ceiling. He's a superhero and saves people from bad guys. The Joker tries to get people. The Sandman disappears!" (Spiderman.) We were really lucky to have Team JD come and read our favourite books with us. They brought their favourite books too and read some of them to us. It was lovely to see all the children so engaged and passionate about reading. Miss Crossfield also visited us and read us her favourite story "Albert Upside Down." It was lovely to listen to her read and we hope she can come back soon! We completed some special activities to show our love for reading. These included writing stories about ourselves during provision time, making masks of our favourite characters, using puppets to retell traditional tales and a book hunt. We also learnt the words "villain" and "hero" and could identify these characters when our friends were telling us about their character. We have had a lovely day today and will continue with our love of reading as we progress through the year. We have been practising saying "Good afternoon" in Spanish and have been learning to answer the register with "buenas tardes."
Our new challenge is to learn the word for the next month of March which is "Marzo." |
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