As we continued with our expedition, we talked about different foods and drinks that are healthy and good for our bodies and things that are not so good if we have a lot of them regularly.
Sorting foods – healthy or not so healthy? 🤨
Listening for sounds in our environment 👂
We’ve been discussing the different sounds we might hear in our environment. We wrapped up warm and decided to go on a sound hunt around our outdoor area. It was a little bit quiet at first and all we could hear were the birds tweeting in the trees but then we started to hear more and more sounds around us – cars and vans, a dog barking, the older children playing on their playground, and even a plane in the sky! The loudest sound we heard was the fan from the kitchen, we huddled around the gate to get a closer look at where the noise was coming from!
Active Maths – counting coins
This week in maths we have been learning about money and the value of different coins. Today we worked in pairs to work out how much money was in different jars pinned around the room. I was very impressed with their knowledge and addition skills. I wonder if you could practice making different amounts of money at home?
TutorMate Hangout
The children who access Tutormate had a lovely afternoon meeting some of the lovely volunteers who read with them each week. They spoke to their tutor, listened to a story and even told some jokes. It was lovely to hear the tutors talk about how well the children are doing with their reading.
Using healthy foods to print! 🧑🎨
We have been creating pictures using different healthy fruits to print. Some of us even used some of the foods like a paintbrush and made other patterns and designs on our paper! The corn on the cob made a fun pattern when we rolled it like a rolling pin!
Mr Potato Head! 🥔👀
Using healthy vegetables to make our very own Mr Potato Heads! We had to think about how we could attach each part to the potato, making sure that we were keeping ourselves and others safe by using the cocktail sticks carefully. We really enjoyed this activity!
Making patterns 🟧🟦🟧🟦
We’ve been looking at ABAB patterns in maths and we decided to use dinosaurs to make our own!
Terrific teeth! 🦷🪥
We have been learning all about how to keep our teeth nice and clean, and why it is important for us to do this. To begin, we practised using a toothbrush by acting out the steps needed to brush our teeth. Miss McGlone then gave us out very own toothbrush and we did a super job of using it to brush backwards and forwards, up and down making sure we had got into all the sneaky spots. Brushing our tongues is also super important so we practised this too – it really tickled!
In provision, we had lots of fun because we had to use the brushes to clean the sets of teeth! They were so dirty and covered in food and bacteria so we used our brushing skills to make sure they were squeaky clean – we really enjoyed this activity!
Decorating plant pots – final product preparation! 🪴
As part of our final product, we used sponges to print a pastel colour onto a plant pot. We will be filling our plant pot with compost and planting daffodil bulbs in them so we can watch them grow! 🌼
Story telling week continues in MI
Today MI visited the library and spent some time getting lost in our own books 🙂 We also enjoyed reading to others and sharing our stories.
