As part of our new 'Under the Sea' focus, the children have been selecting from a range of 2D shapes to design their own 'Shape Fish'! Can you name each of the different shapes that they have used? How would you describe their properties? Perhaps you could design your own 'Shape Fish'!
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This half-term we are having a focus on story books written by Ruth Galloway. Octopus has eight twisty tentacles and he loves using them to tickle the fish, but one day his tickling causes Oyster to drop her precious pearl and we follow him on his adventure to try and get it back, meeting a fierce eel along the way! As we went through the book, the children commented on what was happening in the story . . . Ada - "The octopus tickled and the oyster pearl jumped out!" Bootsy considered how Octopus might be able to get it back - "With his tentacles, grab it!" Octopus managed to push his rubbery body through a tiny gap in the ocean floor Sofia - "He's so happy cause he's squashed down to get the pearl" But then he met the eel! Ted - "He's going to eat him! He's going to eat the octopus" Jess - "It's green, it's scary" She suggested Octopus should "Swim away really fast!" Bella - "The octopus will drop that (the pearl) if he goes really fast, he will have to find it again and squish down again" We won't spoil the ending by telling you what happened - you can enjoy reading the story and find out for yourself! We have been having a lot of fun playing 'copy cats' ! The children each had a percussion instrument and they looked and listened carefully to see which one had been selected to play. If they had the same, they would 'copy' the sound that had been made. We explored playing our instruments in different ways such as by tapping or shaking
them to see how it changed the sound produced and whether we could make either a loud or a quiet sound. We also compared the difference between fast and slow! This week we have been sharing the story of 'The Disgusted Dragon' as part of our focus on the new 'Big Feeling' for this half-term, 'disgust'. As a follow up activity, the children thought about what would make them feel disgusted like the dragon had been, and then what would make them smile again.
Slugs, slime and spiders were mentioned several times! |
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November 2023
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