Well it was rainy week but we didn’t let that get us down. We had lots of great learning happening.
In IEYC we finished off learning about ourselves by discussing our feelings and making a feelings wheel where we used collage materials to represent how each of 4 feelings felt: happy, sad, angry, and worried. Then we moved on to learning about our home and different homes around the world. We looked at our apartment buildings or the parks nearby on Google Earth. We got on an aeroplane and flew around the world looking at different homes like houseboats, tree houses, igloos, and yurts. We also discovered and explored some keys. Following each of those lessons we created apartment floor plans so we could learn what furniture went in each room. We build apartment blocks for our little Minion friends. We made some houses with chairs and blankets. Finally we created our own keys out of clay. They’re drying over the weekend and hopefully we can play with them a little more next week.
In Maths we continued looking at the numbers 1-5 but we also added 0. We compared less and more and we learned to put those numbers in order. We used the book Five Little Monkeys a lot during these lessons. We represented numbers with snap cubes and straws. We also used number cards with numerals, dots, and fingers. Of course we also used our own fingers and even our whole bodies counting actions like 5 jumping jacks.
In Phonics we learned the letters F-J. In writer’s workshop we focused on adding more details to our stories and some people have started feeling comfortable trying writing some letters. We’ve graduated to lined paper to write our stories on.
In PSHE we learned about friendly and unfriendly actions.
And of course we had lots of play time!
Thank you all so much for coming to our Curriculum Morning. It was great getting to tell all of you about what we’re doing in this class and how we do it.
That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend and do try to get outside if the weather clears up! We’re in for another rainy one next week. See you Monday!