Our learning question this week has been “What’s it like in Kenya?’. We started the week listening carefully to the story ‘Mama Panyas Pancakes’. We have learnt that Kenya is a country on the eastern coast of the continent of Africa. We know that Kenya lies on the Equator. We learnt that there are two official languages in Kenya these are English and Swahili. We practised saying ‘hello’ in Swahili which is ’Habari’. We learnt that the capital of Kenya is Nairobi and it has the Nairobi river flowing through it - just like the River Thames flows through London! We learnt that it has just 2 seasons – dry and wet and we spoke about how this is different to England. We learnt about the landscapes and the animals that we would find in Kenya! We have also enjoyed listening and learning the call and response song ‘Che Che Kule’. We have watched clips of the wildlife in Kenya and learnt how people can go on holidays there and go on Safari’s in jeeps and hot air balloons – we thought this was really exciting! Our learning activities have included; using the watercolour paints to paint an African sunset and then carefully cutting and sticking an animal shadow on to it, creating our own stories using the safari animals, carefully attaching pieces together to create a hot air balloon, looking at pictures to compare a Kenyan landscape to a UK landscape and creating repeating patterns by threading cotton reals onto thread. As part of our learning on Kenya, we learnt that they have lots of market stall. We looked at a fruit stall and identified what fruits we could see for sale. Miss Crookes kindly brought in some pineapple (a fruit grown and sold in Kenya) for us all to try! Team EO have also enjoyed making the most of the warmer weather - we have spoke lots about how to keep ourselves safe such as; wearing suncream , wearing sunhats, drinking lots of water and not running around too much! Here we are choosing our own learning outside! In Maths, our Year 1 children have been completing Maths assessments in small groups – they have used the manipulatives to help them solve the problems and have really blown me away! Our Reception children have been subitising numbers to 5, identifying doubles and not doubles, recalled number bonds to 5, recalled subtraction facts from 5 and explored how the numbers 6, 7 and 8 are composed! In Science, we carried out our inquiry on ‘classifying’. We know that when we classify we make observations to name, sort and organise items. Our big question was ‘How would you classify these animals based on what they eat?’. We recapped on the meanings of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores before using a Venn diagram to sort animals into the correct categories based on what they eat.
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