Blue Room (R)

Sadly, it's our second and last week of looking at Minibeasts and our final week of our All Things Great and Small Topic for this term. This week we looked at insects and spiders which we learnt were arachnids and part of the arthropods family (ask your child how many legs, body parts and eyes insects and spiders have). We made amazing webs, drew webs with chalk, made spiders, made junk model insects and did drawings of insects.

In maths we looked at time and how to order time. We talked about our daily routine using the words, now, next and later and looked at our morning routine using the words, before, after, then. We looked at height and used the words, tall, short, taller, tallest, shorter shortest and looked at length and used the words long, short, longer, longest, shorter, shortest. We also ordered objects by their length and height. Try using these words and ordering items with your children over half-term. On our final day we will look at position again, this time using the words further, closer, nearer. We will be throwing bean bags and using the words to describe their position!

Over half-term, if you would like to do some work outside the Love to Learn project, practice writing and recognising numerals 1-10. As a challenge try writing and recognising numerals to 20, especially 11, 12, 13, 14 (can anyone write higher than 20???). 

In RWI we are learning new sounds all the time. It is always useful to go over the sounds we have learnt before. If you would like, practice saying these sounds with your child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OiU2h3sUI it is also always useful to practice writing the letter and going over their rhymes. Attached is a sound mat with all the RWI letter formation rhymes. You could also challenge your child by asking them to write some words. This week in choosing time, the children have written valentine's cards, written letters in sand and made some amazing menus for Beefio Café, writing words like salami, chicken, cake etc alongside prices. What amazing things can your child write at home?

After a brief hiatus after the success of their Christmas album. Green/Blue room were asked to write a hit single for safer Internet day. The band used the occasion to also announce a name change, to Beefio Band. This is to make things easier for tax purposes for Beefio Industries. Beefio Industries, as you know, includes the famous shops: Beefio Breakfast Bar, Beefio Outdoor Restaurant, Beefio Café and the Beefio Seasonal Pop Up. There have been accusations that the owners of Beefio Industries are out of touch with the common man; the papers reported recently that Beefio Café was charging 100 pounds for salami! But despite the recent bad press, Beefio Band have written another late winter smash hit.

Minibeasts (and more) invasion!

Topic was lots of fun this week. We had a special week full of art. We learnt about silhouettes and made a beautiful sunset scene with a dinosaur silhouette. The children learnt how to use watercolours to make their sunset and did some amazing cutting out. We did some observational drawing. We learnt about 'bling drawing' and observational drawing and then did our own observational drawings. We sat down and drew dinosaurs that were on the table. We also learnt about junk modelling and then made our own 3D dinosaurs with masking take, paper and tissue. This task would have been the perfect opportunity to teach the children about abstract sculpture as our creations all ended up looking particularly individual/original!

Mini beast adventures next week in early years.