Here is a small selection of independent writing that the Rainbows have chosen to do during provision time.
Aren't they AMAZING!
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What a fantastic experience Rainbows have had today! We had a visit from Michaela at Lion Learners and she bought in some animals for us to meet. We did some very carefully listening about how to handle the animals, and how important it was for us to wash our hands before and after handling the animals. We got to meet Timmy the Royal Python, Spinderella the Tarantula, Claude the Bearded Dragon, Nina the Guinea Pig and Xena the Millipede. Michaela demonstrated how to safely interact with the animals and made it clear that if we didn't want to hold or touch them we didn't have to. She gave a choice if we could like to hold some of them, stroke them or have them placed on our leg. While we were holding the animals she told us some really interesting facts. Here are a few of them; The millipede came from Thailand (Frankie) The snake was a Royal Python (Jude) A long time ago snakes had legs (Olivia P) The Bearded Dragon eats grasshoppers (Mylah) The Bearded Dragon lives in the desert (Theo) The Bearded Dragon has a special "third eye" on top of his head. Some of the Rainbows (and staff) definitely faced their fears and it was wonderful to see the Rainbows so brave, and so engaged with the animals and when listening to Michaela. Here we are having an AMAZING time, and one of the Rainbows said "It's the best day EVER!" We even got to see Claude eat a grasshopper! Check out the videos below.
We have had so many awards this week here are just a few of the Rainbows we have celebrated. You can see some Incredible Me! certificates for phonics learning and some Dojo certificates for achieving 100 dojo points! This means the children get to spend some special time with either Mrs Fitchett or Mr Smith and are able to take part in a creative or sports activity.
You can also see our Golden Book award for being resilient when learning new things and trying their best, and also our Starbooks award! Well done superstars! Here is this weeks Road Safety Champion! It was very hard to pick this week but she demonstrated excellent care and attention when crossing the road to and from Welly Walk.
Well done for being so safe! Rainbows have had another historical object to explore this week; a miners lamp. They identified that it was made from metal and glass and we talked about how it was much safer than using a candle on their helmet. We have been using the words "A long time ago" and "the past" to help us explain about history.
The Rainbows were very interested in the topic of mining, which of course is so important within our community. We looked at some photos of coal mining and talked about the process including the use of pit ponies and how children had to help in the mine! Some of the children did some independent writing about the miners lamp and mining as they found it very interesting. Two Rainbows have read the class a story this week! How brave are they?! Over the past couple of weeks in phonics some of us have been reading "The Spell" and "Black Hat Bob." The Spell is about Stitch the Witch who tries to turn her naughty cat into a frog, and Black Hat Bob is about Red Hat Rob trying to steal all his money!
Here are the superstars who read their story to the class. We are immensely proud and everyone enjoyed your stories so much! The Rainbows were a fantastic audience and sat quietly and listened carefully too! We began by all reading together "Big, Bad Bug" by Oxford Owl and talked about how dad tricked the children and made a big bug out of a potato! We then matched some sentences to the correct picture from the story, but we had to read them very carefully as some of them had mistakes in.
Rainbows have been using their phonics skills to read independently as well. Some of us have been "Fred Talking" to read CVC words and matched them to the correct picture. Some of us have been matching simple sentences to pictures and some of us have been matching complex sentences with different digraphs and tricky sight words. We have been practising our Read Write Inc. skills and some of us can now confidently segment and blend in our head ("Fred in your head") to read words. Some of us are becoming very speedy readers now! It has been fabulous to see the Rainbows accessing these activities independently during provision time too, as well as reading the books they have been reading in phonics. We are proud of you Rainbows! In maths we have been continuing with our Mastery in Maths approach and have been recapping "one more." We have used the number blocks to help us. Penguin helped us to place them next to each other but we noticed that one was in the wrong place because the "stairs" didn't add one more block each time. We also learnt that they have to have the same starting point for their base, and that was tricky to explain!
We have used the stem sentence "___is one more than___" to help us explain our answers. We have also been recapping what the word "fewer" means and have been identifying groups with fewer and more this week. After checking on our beans we planted last week we are amazed too! They have already started to shoot and some are getting quite tall already!
We will keep you posted as to how they do! Yesterday the Rainbows took home their sunflower seed they planted too. We would love you to measure them as they grow and send us updates on Seasaw! We wonder whose will grow the tallest.... Our story focus this week has been the Extraordinary Gardener. It is a lovely story about how plants and wildlife can have a positive impact on our environment and shows that sharing and caring for others can make our community a vibrant and wonderful place to be.
The vocabulary we have been learning this week is; imagination, wild, ordinary, roamed, soared, longed and discovered. During provision our activities have helped develop our fine motor skills, creative skills, understanding of the world, reading, writing and maths! We have mixed colours to paint a still life photo of some pink and cream roses, mixed shades of grey to create pictures from the extraordinary gardener, created pictures of a flower with a stem, flower, petals, seed, roots and leaves, designed seed packets, and so much more! Here we are again learning lots of new things and trying out our skills! If you look through further posts you can see what other activities we have also been getting up to! |
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