Rainbows questioning skills are really coming on and we can use a range of question words. We know that questions help us to find out information and we are certainly interested in a lot of topics!
We don't always get to ask Google to find the answer to everyone's questions so here are the questions below so you can ask at home. This week we asked Google "How do you solve a mystery?" and "How do you make glass?" We watched a really intersting video for the second question that told us silica sand is used and it showed us the process in a factory. What is a red spider with black? (Violet) What do snakes eat? (Hendrix) What would happen if you don’t wash your car? (Jude) How do you make a building? (Myles) How is chicken made? Food) (Yousuf) What do worms eat? (Olivia P and Alex) How does water go down drains? (George) How do you solve a mystery? (Annie) What do elephants eat? (Holly) What do frogs eat? (Esme) How do bees make honey? (Leah) How do you make pizza? (Harper) How do you make bracelets and necklaces? (Mylah) How do you make sweets? (Emmie) How do you make a playground? (Frankie) What do slugs eat? (Ianis) What are worms made out of? (Diego) How do you make glass? (Hugo-John) Where can you go on holiday? (Olivia K) How do you get to the airport? (Freddie) How long do snakes live? (Jude)
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This week in maths we have been revisiting numbers to 20. We have practised counting and also how to count large groups of objects where you cannot subitise because there are too many.
We moved large groups of objects into lines or sets so we could easily see how many there were, and counted in twos and fives to see how many there were altogether. That was much easier than counting one at a time. We also tried to count objects that could not be moved. This was really tricky as penguin tried to count them but missed some out and counted some of them twice! We tried crossing them out each time we counted them so we counted correctly. We also revisited using Rekenreks and can confidently say that there are 10 beads on the top (5 red and 5 white) and 10 on the bottom (five red and five white again) so there are 20 beads altogether. We are very speedy at moving a group of beads across rather than moving one bead at a time. Here is a quick update on some of our clay minibeasts we started last week. We left them to air day and when that was complete we started to paint them. We looked closely at the different colours the minibeasts have on them and tried to paint them as closely as we could to resemble the real thing!
Here are a few of them. Can you guess what they are? This week on Welly Walk we went hunting for minibeasts! We did some research about minibeasts before we went and learnt to identify honey bees, earthworms, millipedes, butterflies, caterpillars, woodlice, spiders, slugs and snails. The weather was very cool and damp again but that made it perfect to find lots of slugs, snails and woodlice! We hunted by lifting up logs and fallen branches, searching the cracks in walls for spiders and their webs and looking under leaves.
We were so lucky and found lots of worms, slugs and woodlice and also we found two ladybirds! We could identify some of their features and used magnifiers and magnifying glasses to help us look at them in detail. We also collected them in pooters so we could handle them carefully without hurting them. Before we came back to school we released them back into the nature area so they could continue to live happily in their home. We will continue with our minibeast hunt next week and hopefully the weather will be warmer and we will find different ones too! This week we have been learning to deconstruct and construct our own sentences. We began by doing this orally and playing a fun game. Some of us had to hold a sentence in our head and sit in a circle, then take turns to say the next word in the sentence. Some of us played a game where we could make up our own sentences and chose a word that makes sense to add to the sentence on our turn.
Some of us have been learning that words are made up of sounds. We counted the sounds in words, used scissors to cut the word into sounds, Fred Talked to read the sounds, then put the sounds back together to read the word. We then practised Fred Talking and reading more words. Some of us have been counting the words in sentences. We read some nonsense sentences as they were not in the right order. First as a group we talked about what clues we could see to where the words go. We know that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, so we moved those words and tried to construct the sentence so it was correct. We were given our own mixed up sentences so we cut them into words, spotted the clues and moved the words around until they made sense. We are working hard to become independent writers and structure our own sentences, so these activities are helping us to do that! Here we are being fabulous detectives and super readers! This week we have been learning some new vocabulary to help us learn the parts of a plant. We have been learning seed, stem, leaves, flower, petals, pollen and roots.
We have had the opportunity to plant our own seeds and will watch them grow over the next few weeks. We are hoping to see them shoot very soon! We are also taking part in an experiment to watch a bean grow. We placed it in a see through sealed bag with some wet tissue paper and are excited to see any changes it will go through over the next few weeks. We also did the same again but placed it in soil. Keep checking the blog for the updates! Rainbows love to read and this week in class we have been re-reading the book "The Spell" that some of the children have been reading in phonics.
In phonics we read through some "speedy green words" that are common words the children need to learn and read speedily. We then read "story green words" which are words that are present within the story book. After we are familiar with them, we read the story with our partner taking it in turns to read a page at a time. One partner acts as the teacher and points to the words for their partner to read, and supports them if they find it tricky. Then they swap over. We try to challenge ourselves by doing "Fred in your head" and reading the sounds out loud then the word, then we progress onto "Fred in your head" where we try to say the sounds not aloud and just say the word, then we try "Fred in your head faster" which helps the children to become speedy readers. Here we are reading the story about Stitch the Witch again using our phonics knowledge. We really enjoyed this story because she turns herself into a frog instead of her cat! We are continuing to learn to cross the road safely on the way to Welly Walk by doing "stop, look, listen and think" each time.
Some children are making brilliant progress with this and are keeping themselves and others safe. Thank you to last weeks Road Safety Champion who modelled to her friends how to safely cross the road so they could learn too. Here is our new Road Safety Champion who will continue this next week. Well done! Here is just one of the Rainbows that has achieved an award this week. This is a Star Books reading award and what a fantastic reader he is!
Well done superstar! This week Rainbows have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk as part of our Growing and Planting topic.
We have read several different versions of the story including a play which was different. Rainbows talked about good and bad characters in the story. Although everyone thinks the giant is a bad character because he is grumpy and chases Jack, Jack in fact went into the giants house without being asked and stole his belongings. Some of the Rainbows were surprised that Jack was bad because he was poor and needed some money to buy new clothes and food for himself and his mum. There have been so many different activities happening this week, including lots of independent writing. Even though the weather has taken a turn for the worse, we have still be accessing outdoor provision and continuing with our bug hunt. We have initiated lots of independent literacy and maths this week in provision, and some children even wanted to play noughts and crosses with adults and their friends. We love it when children have their own ideas and interests that we can support and build on in school. Here we are getting busy! |
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