What we did this week - 23rd January

Sorting 2-D shapes

Painting a symmetrical butterfly

This week in Numeracy our focus was 2-D shape. Through a range of games and activities, we continued naming and describing the 4 basic shapes (triangle, rectangle, circle and square). We also learned the new shape 'oval'. We also looked at symmetry by decorating one side of a butterfly template with paint, then folding it in half to make a symmetrical painting.

Designing our 'good' dinosaur profiles

In Literacy this week, we read lots of stories about Dinosaurs and talked about them. We talked about 'good' and 'bad' dinosaurs and designed our own profile of a 'good' dinosaur, thinking about where he would live, what he would look like, what he would eat and who his friends would be.

Finding out information about dinosaurs and playing dinosaur games on www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/dinosphere/index.htm

Collaging a dinosaur

 





In Topic this week, we made dinosaur music using a range of instruments. We learned which instruments we could play to represent different sounds (e.g. flapping of wings, crunching leaves, stamping, roaring, running). We also looked at pictures of fossils after reading a story earlier in the week about a little boy who found a fossil of a dinosaur footprint. Miss Joanne told us about fossils and how these have helped us find out about dinosaurs today.

What we did this week - 16th January

Making a dinosaur jigsaw

 This week we continued looking at dinosaurs as part of our overall topic. In Literacy, we choose our favourite dinosaur to draw then with the help of Miss Joanne used information books, posters etc to find out some information about it. Some of us are very interested in learning about dinosaurs and we have been asking some interesting questions about them, such as "Why are dinosaurs not here anymore?" "Does a T-Rex want to eat people?" " Is the diplodocus as big as the classroom?".

Completing our 'I Can Do Books'

In Numeracy this week, we used the dinosaurs to help us with our counting and estimating, We also put the dinosaurs in a line and labelled them '1st', '2nd' '3rd' etc. We are all beginning to understand ordinal language.

Using the dinosaurs and ordinal numbers

 As part of our topic work this week, we made a dinosaur scene which some of the children showed in our 'good work' assembly. For this, we used our painting, printing and collage skills.

Playing 'Dinosaur Tag' in P.E

In phonics, we learned the sounds v and oo / OO. We also learned two new key words 'went' and 'look'. We talked about sentences we could make with these words e.g. Look at the cat, Look a dinosaur, I went to the park, Lucy went to the beach.

Back to School :)

The dinosaur egg

Welcome back to Term 2 in K2. This term our topic is animals so we will be learning and doing lots of activities around this theme. This week we have began our animal theme by looking at dinosaurs. We were very excited when Miss Joanne found a big egg in her garden and after a little research, we found out it was probably a dinosaur egg. We discussed what we could do with it and decided to put it somewhere safe and wait to see what would  happened. To our amazement one day, a baby dinosaur hatched out of it. This week in Literacy, we have been busy finding out information about our pet dinosaur & playing games to help us learn more about other dinosaurs.

Measuring the toy dinosaurs with cubes

 In Numeracy this week, we focused on looking at size and counting objects up to 10. We measured how tall the toy dinosaurs were with cubes and even measured our footprints against a dinosaur footprint.

In phonics, we continued our journey of sounds by learning z, w and ng. We decorated  a 'zebra' for 'z' and sponge painted a 'whale' for 'w'.  

Please continue to practice these sounds every week with your child, along with the 'key words' in preparation for reading this term.

Working in pairs to make a dinosaur with bricks

For topic work this week, we made a 'Stegosaurus' mask using a paper plate & cut out pieces. We really enjoyed this activity.



Christmas!

The last couple of weeks in school we completed Christmas activities and had lots of exciting things to do. We all enjoyed taking part in the 'Christmas Show'. We looked very nice as gold stars so a big thank you to all the parents for making the costumes :). I hope you all enjoyed the day!

Our Christmas Fireplace

We had fun making Christmas cards and calendars during our topic time. In Numeracy & Literacy, we also completed activities with a Christmas theme.

On the last week of term, the children enjoyed a visit from Santa and all children recieved a little gift. We also had a 'Christmas Party Day' and ate lots of lovely food. Thank you to all those parents that brought food or drink in for this day.