Dear Edgerley Families
What a wonderful first official week in Edgerley! It was
great to be able to welcome such a lovely group of children into our classroom
and just perfect to see Miss C coming with them.
The children spent the first
week showing us what wonderful grown up four year olds (and almost four year
olds) they are and Emma and I have been so impressed with their excellent
engagement in the classroom challenges.
We’ve had lots of fun getting to know
everyone and look forward to finding more out about each other as the weeks
progress.
This week we started to explore structures and buildings by
attempting to make 3D structures using only strips of paper. It was hard to
work out what to do until we put our heads together and brain stormed some
ideas. We created a chart of ways to change our strips of paper so that they
would stand up. We created loops, circles, arches and folds, we even scrunched
paper to create volume! What a great idea. We plan to use some of the ideas we
explored about height in other building challenges throughout the term.
We also began to explore colours and how they are created.
We worked together again to create a list of all the colours that we knew. But
there were a few colours that we could observe but couldn’t name. One was the
reddy/purple colour of our uniforms, what is that colour called? We thought we
might be able to ask people at home if they knew the name of that colour. We
can’t wait to see next week if anybody can tell us what it is.
Charlie O also
wanted to add the colour of Mrs Bishop’s cheek to the list, we explored ideas
like pink, white, brown and red but when we held those colours up to her skin
we knew we needed another name. “It’s pinky orangey” Charlie O described.
I wonder if anybody can discover a colour name to describe it? We mixed our own
colours with ink at the light table and were amazed by what we saw.
“I just mixed the colours together and made black! It’s
magic!” said Hamish
“I made green, I put a blue on top of another colour” said
Aston
“Oh no, I made completely brown!” exclaimed Rory
“If you mix yellow and blue it makes green” said Aidan
Green was very popular but we also managed to spot orange
and purple. Our more enthusiastic participants consistently created many shades
of brown. We will continue to explore colour mixing using different medium next
week.
On our way back from the gym this week some students
discovered a worm attempting to cross the path so he was immediately
scooped up to take back to class for observation. We read a book about worms
and discovered that they are the friends of the garden.
You might have noticed
that we have begun to create a garden in our classroom, attempting to
germinate seeds as well as carrot tops and celery ends. We will observe them
over the coming weeks to see what happens. We talked about the parts of plants
and began to discuss what plants might need. If you have a small indoor plant
that would appreciate some love over the next semester feel free to send it in
for us to care for.
With such a wonderful start to the term the world is out
oyster next week with lots of ongoing investigations and interests. Looking
forward to seeing you all again next week.
Love from Mel, Emma, Cris and Satin
