Today the Rainbows learnt about the fantastic cause of Children in Need. We took part in lots of different activities including colouring Pudsey pictures, completing a treasure hunt for Pudsey Bear pictures hidden in the classroom, guessing the number of sweets in the jar to raise some money and buying buns to raise money for children in Need. Pudsey also lost all of his spots so we went on a spot hunt in our outdoor area to find them all. We thought we saw Pudsey run past looking for his spots, then we heard banging coming from inside so we went to investigate! Some of us made some Pudsey ears to wear. We practising our cutting skills to cut out the ears and coloured in some spots. What do you think of them in the photos below? Don't the Rainbows look great?
Here we are in our spotty, yellow or Pudsey Bear clothes and non uniform! What a fantastic cause to support!
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This week is Antibullying Week and we have been reading the story of Elmer. We know that being unique is wonderful and that everybody is different and it makes us special!
Our Elmer activities to develop our knowledge and skills across the seven areas of the curriculum have included printing shapes on Elmer ears and describing and naming the shapes, painting Kandinsky Elmers, retelling the story of Elmer with masks, exploring different textures and materials to decorate Elmer and sharing different Elmer stories with our friends. We have also completed our Diva posts for Diwali and carefully painted them and added glitter on top. Here are some photos of us enjoying our learning! This week we have been exploring instruments. We have been learning their names including Djembe, jingle bells, shakers, rain sticks, triangles, drums and a guiro. We practised making loud and quiet sounds, and fast and slow sounds. We also made slow and loud sounds, slow and quiet sounds, fast and loud sounds and fast and quiet sounds. We read Elmer and the Wind and used our instruments to make some sounds like stormy weather. We used shakers to sound like the wind, drums to sound like thunder and a guiro and rain sticks to sound like rain drops! Here we are having lots of fun exploring the instruments and making storm sounds! Monday was World Kindness Day and Rainbows have been learning what being kind means. We know it means thinking about other peoples emotions and making them feel happy.
One of the Rainbows also made Team CW staff very happy earlier this week with an act of kindness as she brought in some cakes for us! Thank you so much Olivia! What a very kind and thoughtful thing to do. You certainly made us all smile! Today the Rainbows watched a video of a girl doing random acts of kindness. We thought it would be nice if we did that and decided we should give some adults in school a surprise to make them feel happy and special. The Rainbows talked about which staff in school they would like to surprise and we talked about what we would like to tell them. We practised "My Turn Your Turn" after deciding what we would like to tell the adult, including "Thank you, you are AMAZING!" The Rainbows chose to surprise dinner staff, cover staff, teachers and teaching assistants. We went around school and surprised the adults with their treat and lovely words. Here are some of their reactions! These week in maths we have been making numbers in different ways. We watched the Numberblocks make some "stampolines" by jumping in paint then changing their shape and printing it on paper.
We used squares to make the number blocks and changed their shape. We know that even if we change their shape the amount still remains the same. When we made different shapes we identified what numbers we could see within the total amount. We used a stem sentence and were able to say what we could see, such as "3 and 2 make 5 altogether." We also had fun doing this independently in provision. There was lots of exciting learning on Welly Walk including making some Autumn patterns using leaves and other natural items. They loved exploring different leaves and describing them using their senses too.
Welly Walk is fantastic for impromptu child-initiated learning and building on the children's interests! The children decided they would like to go on a bear hunt. There were lots of opportunities to develop their communication and language skills as they had to listen very carefully, take it in turns to speak and comment on what other children said. It was lovely to see the children taking it in turns, and waiting to have a turn to be the bear and they had so much fun! Adults love seeing what ideas the children have and can't wait to see what happens next time! As this weekend is Remembrance weekend the Rainbows have been learning about "the past." One of the activities was revisiting the "Ourselves" topic and talking about changes over time. We talked about what has happened in our past and how we have changed.
We looked at pictures of different people throughout their life. We had to order the pictures to create a timeline. We remembered the vocabulary we learnt during the "Ourselves" topic. We could identify baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and elderly people. We could use this vocabulary confidently. We ordered the photos and explained to our friend the changes from each photo. We talked about babies needing adults to feed them and that to communicate they cry and put their arms out. We said toddlers learn to walk and can make different sounds to communicate. We said children can walk and move in different ways, can talk and communicate in different ways and they are taller than toddlers. The Rainbows could describe the changes in each picture and were inspired to try and complete the activity independently during provision time. We also focused on "the past" and were brought in a very strange object. First we held the bag and guessed what might be inside because it was very heavy. When we were shown the object we wondered what it could be. Lots of us thought it might be a type of door handle but some of us guessed correctly that it was an iron! We compared the iron from the past to an iron in the present. The Rainbows found out it was made of metal, while the modern iron was mostly made from plastic. They talked about how the iron would get hot because it didn't have plug, and one Rainbow said we need to heat it up in flames. The rainbows all got to handle the iron (carefully) and told their friends it was very heavy and hard to push. They all decided that the modern iron was easier to use than the iron from the past. This week in maths one of our focuses has been to represent numbers in different ways and to understand what parts make an amount. The number blocks have been helping us to do this.
We know that two is always made up from one part and one more part and this cannot change. We made the number two numberblock change shape so one part was above the other part, and one part was next to the other part. We know that one part and one part makes two parts, and this never changes. We made number 3 numberblock in different ways. We know that number three can be made up from one part, one part and one part, but can also be made up of two parts and one part. We made number three in different ways to represent this. During provision time the children investigated making number blocks in different ways and told an adult what they could see. Some children could combine the number blocks to make a larger number and describe what they saw. Some children moved into the dough area and made amounts in different ways too! Rainbows have been working incredibly had in phonics to continue to learn new sounds, to spot the sound in a pack of letters, to write the sound using the handwriting phrase and to use the sound when making words.
Some of the Rainbows have been using magnetic boards to write sounds in CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words. First they say the word, then show how many sounds the word has on their fingers. We call this "Fred Fingers." Next they pinch each finger as they say each sound in the word. An adult adds each sound, one at a time, to a pocket chart on the board. The children then "Fred Talk" (segment and say each sound) then blend the sounds together to read and say the word. Then the children make the word on their magnetic board and read it over and over. Here are some of the Rainbows working hard to read! What an achievement! Rainbows have been learning about Remembrance Day. We know that this is to remember soldiers and we know that some soldiers fought in the past. We know we wear poppies to show we remember the soldiers.
Our activities this week have included developing our cutting skills to create a poppy to wear, exploring and describing different textures to create a giant poppy picture to display in school, looking at remembrance pictures and identifying the initial sounds and tracing patterns on poppy petals. Rainbows also created a college using different materials to make poppies to display in school. They made photo frames to help remember special people and special events that had happened. We watched a video from CBeebies that helped us to understand remembrance day. A family of rabbits are effected by soldiers fighting and we talked about the different emotions the rabbits and other animals might feel and what happened to where they lived. The Rainbows identified emotions including happy, excited, frightened, worried, scared and sad. |
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