Langley
In response to children’s interest in grouping, sorting and patterning, we have provided them with a basket of different tiles and treasures to experiment with pattern making and seriation. The children have used them in a range of different ways and created patterns and structures;
“1, 2, 3” counted Stella as she lined the tiles up,
“I doing a big blue and a red. The colours join up” commented Felix,
“Patterns from each end” said Chanel as she extended her tiles from both ends,
“Look steps” said Sophie as she graduated her tiles up and up.
The children are demonstrating their ability to sort, order and seriate and are developing their understanding of one to one correspondence….wow, all of that from a small basket of tiles!
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
There have been more discoveries in our room this week. The children have problem solved how to get Alexander the Duck out of a tall vase of water by filling the vase with cup after cup of water till he floated to the top. They have made bubbles with mixture, popped them and printed them. They have mixed dry cake mixture with wet mixture and then baked it to make cupcakes. One of the most popular activities has been bubble blowing.
"Look, Look, look at me. Big bubbles. Bubbles on my face" said Eric enthusiastically.
Watch me go. I am making lots of bubbles. big ones, lots of little ones too. You need to blow really hard. The bubbles are coming out of the straw" Jack said.
Sebastian said laughing, "Look, Jack's making bubbles. It's popping".
"Ha, ha. Look at me. Bubbles everywhere. Look on the mirror. Yellow from my bubbles. Pop, pop" Henry screamed with excitement!
"When I touch them they go. I can make the bubbles go. Then I can make them come back" said Joshua proudly.
"You put the straw down and blow and then the bubbles come out" Seth told everyone.
"Yeah. The straws going in. Look it's going down when the bubbles come up!" Jesse announced!
We look forward to more investigations next week.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
As we continue to investigate Changing States, the Cooper children initiated some pretend fire play in the garden during the week. A small group of children gathered sticks and piled them up on the lawn then sat in a circle around them. When the teachers asked about their game the children explained that they were camping and had made a fire - they were even toasting marshmallows!
"It's hot, it might burn down your stick" warned Zac.
"It's getting hotter" said Noah.
"It looks like barbecue" said Ajeet.
"The marshmallows were all nice and warm" said Henry.
"They get cooked" said Cooper.
"You need to be careful, they're hot" said Ajeet.
The game has continued over a couple of days and been extended with cellophane flames, pots and pans, tent building and 'sleeping' outdoors. We have had lots of warm fire camping fun for such a cold week!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
Thank you for all the wonderful items the children shared this week about change. We had fun with a jelly bath, chased and popped bubbles in the garden, watched an amazing tree grow colourful crystals and saw a chameleon change colours! The children have continued their interest in magic potions and we have started making our own class spell book. We have also explored mixing coloured water, oil and salt to make a lava lamp. The children were fascinated watching the blobs travel to the bottom and then the bubbles back up as they added the salt. They also discovered that as they added more salt, the mixture changed colours! Here are some statements the children have shared about change....
"How does the bubble go through the oil, how can it make holes?” asked Lucas about the lava lamp.
“Yeah, it’s all puffed up like the colours of a rainbow” exclaimed Max about the crystal tree.
"It feels good" said Nikolay as he enjoyed experiencing the jelly bath.
"I'd like to have a chameleon as a pet so I could see it could change colours" said Nicholas after Ryan's show and tell.
We have learnt so much about change and we can't wait to discover more!
Warm wishes, Suria, Sinead, Rachel and Sue.
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We continued our investigations into change this week by closely observing our tree in the secret garden. We estimated when we thought all the leaves would have fallen
“In a hundred years!” said James
“By this Friday” guessed Mrs Nacca
We have begun to express our understanding artistically using clay (we plan to add our leaves after the clay has dried). Don’t forget to look at our beautiful autumn paintings on display in the hall as you walk to our classroom. Next week we will pool all our ideas about change and growth by creating our own shared project and construct our own autumn tree in the break out space. We also hope to investigate using the internet and find out why some trees leaves change and some stay green?
Boys enjoyed experimenting with changes to liquid this week using bubble mixture and dye. Many of us came home looking like we had chicken pox!!!! We recorded our bubbles by taking prints on paper.
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie
In response to children’s interest in grouping, sorting and patterning, we have provided them with a basket of different tiles and treasures to experiment with pattern making and seriation. The children have used them in a range of different ways and created patterns and structures;
“1, 2, 3” counted Stella as she lined the tiles up,
“I doing a big blue and a red. The colours join up” commented Felix,
“Patterns from each end” said Chanel as she extended her tiles from both ends,
“Look steps” said Sophie as she graduated her tiles up and up.
The children are demonstrating their ability to sort, order and seriate and are developing their understanding of one to one correspondence….wow, all of that from a small basket of tiles!
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
There have been more discoveries in our room this week. The children have problem solved how to get Alexander the Duck out of a tall vase of water by filling the vase with cup after cup of water till he floated to the top. They have made bubbles with mixture, popped them and printed them. They have mixed dry cake mixture with wet mixture and then baked it to make cupcakes. One of the most popular activities has been bubble blowing.
"Look, Look, look at me. Big bubbles. Bubbles on my face" said Eric enthusiastically.
Watch me go. I am making lots of bubbles. big ones, lots of little ones too. You need to blow really hard. The bubbles are coming out of the straw" Jack said.
Sebastian said laughing, "Look, Jack's making bubbles. It's popping".
"Ha, ha. Look at me. Bubbles everywhere. Look on the mirror. Yellow from my bubbles. Pop, pop" Henry screamed with excitement!
"When I touch them they go. I can make the bubbles go. Then I can make them come back" said Joshua proudly.
"You put the straw down and blow and then the bubbles come out" Seth told everyone.
"Yeah. The straws going in. Look it's going down when the bubbles come up!" Jesse announced!
We look forward to more investigations next week.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
As we continue to investigate Changing States, the Cooper children initiated some pretend fire play in the garden during the week. A small group of children gathered sticks and piled them up on the lawn then sat in a circle around them. When the teachers asked about their game the children explained that they were camping and had made a fire - they were even toasting marshmallows!
"It's hot, it might burn down your stick" warned Zac.
"It's getting hotter" said Noah.
"It looks like barbecue" said Ajeet.
"The marshmallows were all nice and warm" said Henry.
"They get cooked" said Cooper.
"You need to be careful, they're hot" said Ajeet.
The game has continued over a couple of days and been extended with cellophane flames, pots and pans, tent building and 'sleeping' outdoors. We have had lots of warm fire camping fun for such a cold week!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
Thank you for all the wonderful items the children shared this week about change. We had fun with a jelly bath, chased and popped bubbles in the garden, watched an amazing tree grow colourful crystals and saw a chameleon change colours! The children have continued their interest in magic potions and we have started making our own class spell book. We have also explored mixing coloured water, oil and salt to make a lava lamp. The children were fascinated watching the blobs travel to the bottom and then the bubbles back up as they added the salt. They also discovered that as they added more salt, the mixture changed colours! Here are some statements the children have shared about change....
"How does the bubble go through the oil, how can it make holes?” asked Lucas about the lava lamp.
“Yeah, it’s all puffed up like the colours of a rainbow” exclaimed Max about the crystal tree.
"It feels good" said Nikolay as he enjoyed experiencing the jelly bath.
"I'd like to have a chameleon as a pet so I could see it could change colours" said Nicholas after Ryan's show and tell.
We have learnt so much about change and we can't wait to discover more!
Warm wishes, Suria, Sinead, Rachel and Sue.
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We continued our investigations into change this week by closely observing our tree in the secret garden. We estimated when we thought all the leaves would have fallen
“In a hundred years!” said James
“By this Friday” guessed Mrs Nacca
We have begun to express our understanding artistically using clay (we plan to add our leaves after the clay has dried). Don’t forget to look at our beautiful autumn paintings on display in the hall as you walk to our classroom. Next week we will pool all our ideas about change and growth by creating our own shared project and construct our own autumn tree in the break out space. We also hope to investigate using the internet and find out why some trees leaves change and some stay green?
Boys enjoyed experimenting with changes to liquid this week using bubble mixture and dye. Many of us came home looking like we had chicken pox!!!! We recorded our bubbles by taking prints on paper.
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie
