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.
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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! You may have read in another post that we have been learning about the past and have been exploring miners lamps.
To support our understanding of how the world used to be and how it has changed over time we read the book "In the Toy Museum" by David Lucas. The story is about lots of old toys who wake up at night and hide from their friend. We talked about toys that the children have now, and discussed toys they had a long time ago. The children were able to play with some toys from the past during provision time and loved trying something new! Here you can see them having fun and persevering with some new things! We enjoyed another bug hunt this week to help us secure the knowledge of bugs and their habitat.
We found lots more centipedes this time and some woodlice but the spiders seemed to evade us again! We are getting more confident identifying the features of the bugs and know that some of them like to live in cool, dark and damp places. We were more confident using the pooters to collect them in to observe them and were very gentle when letting them free when it was time to come back to school. We even went on another hunt in our outdoor area. We found so many centipedes of different sizes and lots of worms that had been washed from the soil with the rain. Today for Feel Good Friday we took part in some Just Dance activities. We danced to Trollz, One Direction and Waka Waka. We have certainly been very active and talked about how our bodies changed after exercise by sweating, flushing and being out of breath.
We loved dancing so much we even had a dance to MC Grammar maths songs too! Here we are keeping fit and healthy! 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) 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! |
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