Here a some of the Rainbows we have celebrated this week! We celebrate so many different achievements! Here is a reminder of what we celebrate.
Golden Book - children who are ready, reliable and resilient take home a certificate on a Friday. Starbooks reading award - for 50, 100, 150 and 200 times they have read at home. The children get a certificate and depending on the number of times they read, they get a bookmark, bronze badge, silver badge and a special Books, Biscuits and Brew treat! Dojo's - collecting 25, 50, 100 and more! The children receive a certificate and work their way towards a special activity, such as making slime, and then another activity with Mr Smith doing some sports, or with Mrs Fitchett doing a craft activity. (You can see Mylah's craft activity below.) Your child may also come home with an Incredible Me! certificate or sticker and this means they have achieved something amazing! This could be an act of kindness, learning something new, being resilient and not giving up, being brave, ANYTHING that staff are amazed by! You may also get a phone call home if we don't manage to speak to you at home time and would like to share something your child has done that we are incredibly proud of.
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Every week on the way to and from welly walk we have been learning to cross the road safely. We know this is especially important for when we walk places with our families and friends, and also when we went on our trip to the library walking through Wombwell. We know to stop, look, listen and think to help keep our self and others safe.
This week Miss Clementson chose a Rainbow to be our crossing champion for next week, someone who can independently cross the road doing all the things mentioned above. Next week they will show their friends how to cross the road and help keep them safe by giving advice. Here is our first crossing champion! Well done for keeping safe! We have had such a busy week learning all about minibeasts and developing our skills! We have learnt lots of new vocabulary and can identify ladybirds, butterflies, ants, bees, slugs, snails, caterpillars, beetles and many more!
We have been measuring plastic worms and insects to see how long they are using cubes, creating minibeasts with detail in the dough area to strengthen our fine motor skills and develop our creative skills, we have been painting and colouring using the correct colours and added detail, threaded spiders webs with wool and so much more. Here are just a few of our activities! Rainbows have been looking closely at the features of minibeasts and can name different parts of their body and what they look like.
They have been using their knowledge and fantastic vocabulary to structure questions to try and guess what minibeast they have on their headband. There was no peeking allowed! Some questions they asked were; Is it long? Does it have wings? Does it eat leaves? Can it fly? Does it make slime? Does it live in a web? Is it stripy? Does it have six legs? They looked at pictures on the board to generate questions and correctly guessed their minibeast. Earlier in the year, the children played a similar questioning game and it has been fantastic to see how their questioning skills have developed over the past few weeks and months. Rainbows have been using clay this week to create their very own minibeasts. They have learnt to use the word "sculpt" and "mould."
First they decided which minibeast they would like to make and started to mould the clay by rolling, pushing and pressing it to make the basic shape. After that they began to add more detail by pinching the clay to create their features and added eyes and legs. They also pressed items into the clay to make patterns or dots. Rainbows will continue to create their minibeasts and hopefully paint them when they are dry. Here are some of their wonderful creations so far. Over the past few months Rainbows have learnt how important it is to look after our brain. We often have brain breaks and sometimes take part in yoga activities to help our brain relax more and switch off from all our learning and fast thinking.
After dinnertime the Rainbows are always so happy and excited after playing with their friends. To help get ready for learning we come in from outside and sit quietly on the carpet listening to relaxing music. Some of us close our eyes and focus carefully on what we can hear. Here we are putting our mental health first, keeping calm, focusing and getting ready for learning. This week our story has been Superworm by Julia Donaldson. We worked as a team to create a womery.
First we learnt how worms move through the soil and how important it is to care for them because without worms keeping the soil healthy, we wouldn't have flowers, trees, plants or food. We dug for some soil and added a layer to the wormery, then we added a layer of sand. We then continued this until the wormery was full. Some of the Rainbows collected some leaves to add to the top so the worms had some food. Over a few days we observed the worms moving through the soil. Here we are preparing it. The best part was digging for worms and we found a GIGANTIC one! It was much longer than Miss Clementson's hand when it stretched itself out! In maths this week we have been subitising and using Rekenreks to help us. These are counting frames that are similar to an abacus. There are two rows, and each row has ten beads, five white and five red.
There is a special way to use Rekenreks and we have been learning to use them this week. We have been subitising (knowing how many there are instead of counting individually.) We have been learning to move a set number of beads from right to left on the top row. We subitise and place our finger next to the correct bead and push them all across together. When we have completed our answer, we tip the beads back across so we can complete the next question. Here we are getting used to subitising and using Rekenreks! During welly walk this week we attempted a much less wet spring hunt!
This week we focused on recapping the vocabulary; cowslip, bluebell, blossom, bud and shoot. We found lots of examples and were excited to see the forget me not flowers still blooming. It was much greener than last week too after all the rain we have been having and there were far more shoots and leaves on the bushes and trees. It was very sad to see that the grounds people had been in and cut down all the flowers and grass with their strimmers. Here we are having so much fun finding signs of spring! Team CW were so excited to go on our trip to Wombwell Library! We were very lucky to have sunny weather after the past couple of weeks!
We talked about road safety and have been practising crossing the road safely on our way to welly walk each week. We know we have to stop, look, listen and think before we step into the road and when we are crossing. We wore hi-vis jackets so we could be seen by passing motorists and were very good at listening to adults on the way there and on the way back. Some of us had never visited a library before and were amazed at all the wonderful books that lined every wall! The lady began by telling us how we can sign up to get a library card and can take a book home to read, then return it and swap it for another one. She read us a lovely story called "The Weed" by Quentin Blake and then we were able to explore! We took part in some activities about plants to support our growing and planting topic, and were able to look at some stories and books about plants. Miss Clementson read us a couple of stories before it was time to come back to school. It was lovely to hear that some Rainbows already visit the library, and also how many would like to visit again with their parents so they can borrow a book! Rainbows love looking at books and reading and we can't wait to hear which books you have borrowed! |
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