This week we have
continued to learn lots about Space.
The youngest children
(Sergi, Kai,Luke and Ona) have had lots of fun creating the role play space
area. They have worked hard as a team and Sergi was particularly concentrated
when covering three boxes in tinfoil to make a fantastic rocket. The children
are now enjoying using the astronaut and alien masks and pretending to fly off
in the rocket. They also enjoyed helping me to create a dark ‘space’ reading
area. Ona loves using their torches to read the space stories and searching for
the moon and stars that are stuck on the roof of the reading area. The children
have also enjoyed creating scrunched up, tinfoil moon rocks and then using the
pincers to search for the moon rocks inside the flour moon. The children have
been doing a great job exploring the moon and Luke has had a great time using
cups and pincers in the flour. The children have also enjoyed learning lots of new
space songs. They are learning lots of new vocabulary and are beginning to
remember and sing the songs independently. I have been particularly impressed
with how well Kai has remembered the words to ‘eight planets’.
The KS1 children
(Jordi, Joana, Thais, Marcel and Noa) have been working hard to help the older
children to create our school magazine. Joana and Thais did a fantastic job when
writing a list of all the children in the class. The children also did a
fantastic job drawing a picture of each of their friends. Jordi was also very
keen to draw a picture of Jo and I. The pictures look fantastic and Noa was
particularly concentrated and carefully drew the specific features of each
person in the class. The children have been working lots on label writing and
they were all confident to draw and label their space pictures for the
magazine.
In maths, the children
have continued to create different number displays. They enjoyed creating a
planet calendar for January; colouring in the different planets and sticking
the ordinal numbers in the correct place on the calendar. The children also
continued to work on matching number words to the correct numerals. They
enjoyed creating new number flashcards and displaying them in the correct order
in the maths area. The children have continued to practise counting down from 10-0,
especially when singing our new rocket song. The children then used ‘multiple
of 10’ rocket pictures. It was the first time the children had accessed
multiples of 10 and they did a fantastic job of ordering the numbers from 10,
up to 100. We will keep working on tens, within a range of different space
maths activities. Unfortunately, Arlet was poorly this week and missed all of
the fun activities. I hope she is feeling better and can join us again next
week.
All of the children
have been reading individually to Jo, using the Oxford Reading Tree scheme. The
children did a great job of blending the sounds to read the words. Marcel was
especially confident to use the sounds he knows when reading the words in the
book. We will read a new book every week and will start to bring a book home to
practise reading at home.
The KS2 children
(Judit, Blanca, Sara, Sofia, Arnau and Tatiana) have also been working very
hard to create the different sections of the magazine. I was very impressed
with the introduction Arnau wrote, as he presented his writing beautifully and
was very keen to finish the two-page introduction. Judit did a fantastic job
finding and writing up a muffin recipe for our special beach treat. She did a
great job of copying different pictures and illustrating each part of the
recipe. Blanca did a great job, using the computer to find out information
about the planetarium we are going to visit. She then translated the
information from Catalan to English and dictated very well to Sofia, who wrote
down the information and presented it beautifully for the magazine.
In maths, the children
have continued to work on fractions. I have been particularly impressed with
the progress Sara has made with fractions as she is now able to confidently
find ½, ¼ and ¾ of different amounts and convert the ingredients in different
recipes to ensure that she created the recipes for the correct amount of
people. Judit also did a fantastic job of multiplying, and dividing fractions
and she was extremely perseverant when working out the answers to create the
fractions triangles. Arnau and Tatiana have worked really hard to draw pizzas
and shade the correct number of pieces to ensure that they depicted the correct
fraction for each flashcard.
All of the children
have enjoyed reading individually to me. They all read fantastically well in
English. It was great to see how engaged Arnau was with reading and how keen he
was to read more than one book to me. Tatiana really impressed me with the
comprehension skills she had and the abilities she had to explain the story to
me in great detail. Blanca did a fantastic job of reading a chapter book to me.
She was extremely motivated to understand all of the words within the book and
she was keen for me to explain any words which she didn’t understand.
This week, we have started a new system of ‘happy faces’. The children
have been very motivated and have worked really hard to get ten happy faces
next to their name. All of the children who gained ten happy faces for
listening carefully and completing their work were rewarded with a treat
morning on Friday. The children had a great time baking muffins (using Judit’s
recipe). They then ate the muffins, before choosing to play lots of team games,
which involved them running, jumping and jogging around obstacles. The children
had a fantastic time and are now all really motivated to get ten happy faces
again next week.
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