A very tricky good afternoon to all our lovely families. Here are some bits and pieces we’ve been up to this week.
Following on from our weather station, thermometer making and life with Elmer, ( who always seems to be under a rain cloud!) the children have made rain sticks . They thoroughly enjoyed this activity.
It was science week this week. Mr Peck began the week with a fab assembly introducing us to some amazing scientific concepts. The week was based around environmental science and a very visual activity of how the ice in the arctic is melting at an incredible rate and the effects on the wildlife – the children stood on a huge tarpaulin (to represent ice) and pretended to be seals. Other children surrounded it pretending to be polar bears. Every 5 or so minutes during the assembly the ‘ seals’ had to fold their tarpaulin ice in half, without any falling off to be eaten by the polar bears. It wasn’t long before we had a very visual idea of the impact climate change is having on our wildlife – with the seals all crammed onto a tiny block of ice desperate not to be caught by the circling polar bears.
Linking to this, our class’ science experiment has been to try and make a hole through a block of ice. Armed with ice blocks, hammers, salt and water the children set to work with varying degrees of success. By the end of the week – we found out that by pouring water on the same spot for a minute or so made a perfect hole through the ice! We were due to present this phenomenon in Mondays assembly, instead maybe you could try it at home!
In maths we were finding 2, 3, 4 or even 5 numbers that added together would make 10!
In literacy we have concentrated on segmenting longer words – in groups of three – segmenting words into sounds, writing each sound on a different post it note and then blending the sounds to write them on the whiteboard.
In RE we continued to look at our world, thinking about how WE can look after it. The children have learnt the following song – they know lots of actions – please let them sing it / show you !
Sorry to spoil the surprise ( don’t tell your little one I have) but much of this week was dedicated to Mother’s Day – we made cards, did some writing and made a special stone for you to keep!
Thank you for letting us look after your little ones, we’ve had so much fun and are looking forward to seeing them all again very soon. Good luck with your ‘ home learning’ – just have a go and do your best! If you can’t do it – please just read a story EVERY DAY to your child and ask them to read a bit to you too.
