This week we listened to different Kipper stories by Mick Inkpen. All of these books had a weather theme and Reception wrote about what Kipper would do in their chosen weather e.g. When it is raining, Kipper would splash in puddles. The boys structured some excellent sentences and their bravery towards their independent spelling is wonderful to see. The boys working on the independent activities used play dough to make different types of weather and wrote accompanying captions.
We have been busy making a display for the library all about Mick Inkpen’s kipper books. In relation to the story ‘The blue balloon’, the boys have made a paper mache rainbow and blue balloon. They had great fun getting messy!
During Understanding the World, the boys learnt about solids and liquids and how they change in different temperatures. We melted ice in class, which caused much fascination.
During maths we consolidated both addition and subtraction from the last couple of weeks.
Please find below the maths activity to complete at home, which combines the activity using the die from the previous weeks:
Roll a die and count the number of spots on the die. Next, roll the die again. You can choose to either add or take away the numbers. Try alternating between each concept to help with understanding and recognition of different operational signs. To extend this further, place any number above 10 in your head. You need to remember to ‘lock’ this in your head. Next, roll the die and whatever number is shown on the die, please place on your fingers. Lastly, count on or back from the number that you put in your head on each finger e.g. 16-3, put 16 in your head and get 3 fingers to count back on.
Have fun!
Here are some other things we got up to:
We have a new theme for show and tell next week, titled ‘weather’. For this, please bring in some information you have researched about weather to share in class. The star boys for next week are as follows:
Monday: Zach
Tuesday: Alex Lee
Wednesday: Alex Sembi
Thursday: Arhan
Friday: Arthur
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Goring and Mrs MacNeill