We have had an eclectic week here in Bear Cubs! We have been learning about the story of Moses and how he parted the Red Sea. We were thinking that the people following him must have felt really scared walking through the middle of the sea! We talked about the story as we chose materials for our class collage.
In Maths, we have been learning about tens. We played a game where we had to roll a dice and count buttons onto ten frames to fill them. We filled five frames - that's fifty buttons! In provision, some children spent all day building a McDonalds drive through. Their menu seemed good value but the only problem was they kept getting the order wrong and delivered vanilla shakes instead of chocolate!
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This week, we have continued to learn about dinosaurs and much of our creative play has involved dinosaurs. In DT, we learnt how to use a split pin to swivel a join using a dinosaur's neck attached to its body.
In Maths, we have been learning to share equally, but we have learnt not all numbers can be shared equally; some have an odd one and these are the odd numbers. We have also learnt that sharing between two is halving. This week we have been reading a new focus text 'The girl and the dinosaur'. This has led to some fantastic dinosaur creative play. In the story, a girl finds dinosaur bones on the beach so we have used resources to make dinosaur skeletons. We have also been archaeologists in the sand finding bones, building piers in construction and creating magical island collages. The children's level of focus and creativity has been huge - just like dinosaurs themselves.
Our learning this week has focused around our key text 'The Incredible Hotel'. Children have been incredibly focused in their play; building hotels and bridges, making concoctions and creating menus. Also, can you spot the Bear Cub who can throw a ball HIGH into the air and move with his scoop racket to catch!
Our focus story this week is about a kitchen porter who dreams about becoming a chef. It has made us think about the job that a chef does. On Wednesday we looked into the school kitchen to see if it was like our kitchen at home - everything seemed soooo big! We said that's because there is a lot more children to cook for. Our school cooks showed us how the big dishwasher works.
Children have been practising looking when they paint. They have used watercolours to look carefully at the tulips and paint what they see.
Here are just a few photos from play this week - children building, drawing and writing, reading, reciting poetry. It's been a wonderful week of creativity and business.
Our focus story has been 'The Tale of the Whale' - a story about a child who, after riding on the back of a whale, discovers that although the sea can be a wonderful place, it is being spoiled by plastic. We have been learning how we can look after our world; we can put rubbish in the bin, recycle some objects and use charity shops and turn lights off when we don't need them. We really are learning how to make sure our world stays a beautiful place.
When we read 'Monkey Puzzle' we learnt that some baby animals look like their parents and some do not, like tadpoles and caterpillars.
We also learnt that some animals hatch when they are born and some animals are born live. We have really enjoyed learning about animals over the last couple of weeks and the children's pictures are demonstrating their understanding. Ps. We also learnt that snakes coil - see coiling in provision. We have been reading 'The Tiger who came to Tea'. We have been learning that tea is a plant and it is dried and crushed into tea bags. We have been using a teacup and saucer to taste tea. Most of us really enjoyed it.
We have also been learning about the artist, Steven Brown who paints animals in different colours. This left us imagining what it would be like if a multi-coloured tiger came to tea... |
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