We have all learnt lots about people who help us and emergency services this week! For the first half of the week learnt about doctors and health care workers who help us stay well and make us better. Our Role Play Area was a doctors surgery and we learnt and used lots of new words which helped us to make our friends better including "medicine," "patient" and "examination." We carefully looked at real x-rays and created our own using straws, white paint and black paper. We cut the straws really small to include lots of detail! In our Investigation Area the Rainbows completed a fingerprint investigation and also have been learning about the importance of keeping clean. For the second half of the week learnt about being firefighters. We counted and sprayed out "flames" in our water tray with numbers on, and have been ordering these numbers too. In our Small World Area we created and built a fire station and used new vocabulary to tell stories. We used words such as "rescue" "emergency" and "support". We made some AMAZING fire engines in our junk modelling area and carefully added lots of detail after we painted them, sticking on wheels, windows, ladders and hoses. Rainbows have loved programming "Beebot" our class robot with instructions. Beebot was a fire engine this week and he needed to put out fires around our town. We programmed him with instructions one at a time so he moved across the map and could rescue the people!
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Over the past two weeks we have been learning about different jobs. We started with setting the roleplay area up as a bakery and finding about about different occupations. The children thought about what they wanted to do when they grow up..
We have been learning about harvest and with this in mind we enjoyed the story of The Little Red Hen and made speech bubbles for the hen and other characters from the story. As part of our provision activities we made salt dough cakes for the bakery and designed cakes. We chose different 2d shapes as part of our cake designs and made 2d shape hens later in the week.. The next week we have moved on to learning more about jobs in the community, in particular the emergency services. We have changed 0ur role-play area into a Doctors and have been practising our bandaging techniques and how to call in an emergency. We have shared stories based on the theme of hospitals and firefighters.. In our provision we have made X-ray paintings and roleplayed air and sea rescues with the emergency vehicle toys. We have used boxes to construct emergency vehicles. On Welly walk we have been learning about patterns and making patterns with the natural materials we have found. Our Maths learning has been all about the number 5. There is so much to learn about number 5 that we have spent a whole 2 weeks on this number. Counting, recognising, subertising, adding and subtracting, as well as telling number stories about 5. We have been learning about two stories this week. The first story was The Tiger Who Came to Tea! We really loved this story and enjoyed making some tiger patterns in the painting area and repeating patterns in the construction area. We coloured and cut out tiger headbands and wrote a shopping list because the tiger ate all the food! In the water tray we counted how many cups it took to fill the different sized tiger containers and have been enjoying serving cakes in our classroom bakery! We also enjoyed reading the Bad Tempered Ladybird and have been using words related to time and the time of day. We created some beautiful ladybirds in the creative area by painting paper plates and joining parts together to add the ladybird's features. We hung them across the classroom so we can watch them fly! We wrote about important things we do in our day and made some clocks. We rolled a dice and acted like an animal from the story that it landed on using different actions and noises. We had lots of fun on Welly Walk and have been looking at how the seasons are changing and what happens when Autumn arrives. We have been singing some harvest songs and have joined in with actions. In Read Write Inc we have been continuing to learn Set 1 letter sounds and have been listening to Fred Talk to hear and read words. Some of us have been writing words with familiar sounds! What a busy week but we had lots of fun! |
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