Hello, despite the rather bleak out look for international travel this summer Reception Oak Class have not let the news hold them back. We have a role play airport and aeroplane in the classroom and have been jetting off all around the world this week!

 

The children have really enjoyed making peg and lolly stick aeroplanes and our language has developed learning such words as thrust, climb, descent. runway, flight deck, captain, pilot and so on. It’s lovely to hear the children using all the correct terminology during their role play or aeroplane small world play.

 

We’ve all had great fun making paper aeroplanes this week… some more successful than others but some great making followed by competitions of which plane would fly the furthest!

The clouds which our planes have been flying through have helped us talk about the water cycle. We have discussed how the clouds rain make the rain to form puddles and when the sun shines the puddle evaporates and the water droplets turn into a gas to float in the air and make more clouds – all of these facts provided by the children! Some great science work!

In maths we’ve been balancing, weighing and halving.

 

 

Along with out world map puzzle we have been studying the globe and a big world map poster to find out where our plane could fly to. We have looked around the world via the Cbeebies Where in the World? series:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/playlist-

meeting children from different countries and seeing what life is like for them.

Just before half term our school book week focused on nature and we read ‘ Mole’s Sunrise’ by Jeanne Willis. Here is a link to a reading of the story.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJH1QbhyoGk

We all sketched a picture of the animals and collaboratively wrote an acrostic poem about the vole and the mole who feature in the story. Some children wrote their own acrostic poems.

Here are some picture of your lovely children doing their independent aeroplane writing.

If you have one and remember, please can each child bring in the inside of a toilet roll next week! Mrs Mooney and I will bring in a few but hopefully won’t need to get through 30 toilet rolls this weekend!!

Thank you  Have a lovely weekend!