The children arrived in Foundation Stage on Monday to find out that the aliens space craft had gone! This sparked many questions such as where have they gone? What planet have they gone to? Where is their home? What does their home look like? Did they go straight home or did they go on a new adventure? The aliens left a letter for the children thanking them for mending their spacecraft. On Tuesday the children worked as a class to describe an alien for their teacher to draw. To support the children’s ideas they were asked questions like: what did our aliens look like? How did the aliens move? Did the aliens make any noises? How many eyes/arms/ legs did they have? What did they feel like? What did they smell like? This week’s adult-led activity the children were supported to think of words to describe the aliens they had previously created. During a circle time this week the children worked together to build up their own space story and then they used this to learn about the three parts of a story. The children used a story mountain template to draw pictures of what would happen at each part of their story. During their handwriting and super sentence writing times The children have been practising the letters i, l, t and b. The children have been learning how to write simple sentences using finger spaces, full stops and capital letters.
During this week’s PSED the children were challenged to sort healthy and unhealthy foods into groups, following this they had a class discussion about what healthy foods do to their bodies, what would happen if they ate unhealthy food all the time, what they have to do to look after their bodies at home (e.g. what would happen if you didn’t have a bath? what would happen if you didn’t wash your hands after going to the toilet? What would happen if you didn’t brush your teeth?) and lastly the children talked about who they went to see to check that their teeth were healthy. The children followed on from their PSHE during a discussion about health & Self-Care, where they talked about keeping clean through exploring hygiene items (e.g. tooth brush, sponge, soap, nail brush, hair brush, etc) and then thinking about how they use them and why they are important.
During this week’s PE the children used different space themed movements to warm up their bodies and then they engaged in space themed physical challenges e.g. space obstacle course, throwing and catching moon rocks, throwing a flying saucer (beanbag) and jumping out of a space craft.
A highlight of the week was when the children visited the ICT suite for the first time! During their time in the ICT suite the children learnt how to control a mouse using 2Simple City software. We are very excited to have access to the ICT suite on a weekly basis from now on J
This week’s Maths has focused on positional language and counting / comparing numbers. On Monday the children explored where the larger and smaller numbers are on a number line. Some children worked on matching a given number card with a number on the number line and then clapping the corresponding amount, some children were looking at numbers that were more than 10 and less than 10 and some children began to explore the meaning of the 1 in 2-digit numbers from 11-19, beginning to explore tens and ones. On Tuesday the children were given a 1-30 picture card and then they were challenged to find their number around the classroom. The children showed great excitement and pride during the number hunt and then they made a class number line from 1-30. On Wednesday the children talked about positional language and started to learn about which is their left hand and which is their right. Following this the children pretended to be beebots and followed instructions using the positional terms forwards, backwards, left, right. On Thursday some children explored missing numbers, some children looked at the pattern between 1-9 and 11-19 and some children started to learn about doubling using ladybirds. On Friday the children continued to use their positional language, from Wednesday, to give their partner positional instructions using mathematical language linked to position (under, next to, behind, in front of, left, right).
Alongside all of this learning the children have engaged in a variety of activities linked to the topic of space and health & self-care such as: ordering rockets 1-20; playing the tummy ache game; playing on the beebot emulator on the interactive whiteboard; wooden blocks and space people; washing dolls in the water tray; washing clothes and hanging them up outside on a number line; and making a healthy plate of food using play dough.
Next week we will be starting our new topic of Spring and Easter.
