Dear
Edgerley Parents,
This week we
have enjoyed looking more closely at dinosaurs and their attributes, following
on from our interest during the school holidays program. We observed small
models and pointed out the differences and similarities and even posed theories
about why some dinosaurs might have spikes, frills or horns. We wondered if
their attributes helped dinosaurs eat certain types of food or live in certain types
of places. We hope to tie these observations to our work on habitats last term.
We illustrated pictures of dinosaurs in our illustration books and were
encouraged to take a second look to add further details. At the making table
children took this one step further and created 3D models. Grace’s bag of
recycled bottle tops came in very handy for dinosaur eyes!
We have begun to add
our portraits to the wall above the lockers and next week we will begin to
think about the things that make us different and special as well, although we
don’t suppose they will be horns and spikes!
Further
encouraged by Charlie P we have begun to construct our own calendar and have
been busy writing the names of the months. We are excited to add our photos to
the months of our birthdays. We were pleased to receive a few responses about
special cultural celebrations to add to our calendar and are planning to help
Yash celebrate Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi next week. Although this celebration
falls on Monday we are looking forward to finding out much more about it all
next week. Rakhi is a celebration about the bond between sisters and bothers
and involves the exchange of gifts and special bracelets. Although it is
usually sisters who give bracelets and brothers who give special gifts we have
enthusiastically decided to make bracelets for all our siblings.
If you haven’t
returned you information sheet where you tell us about your child’s siblings it
would be great if we could have this information for next week as we would hate
any brother or sisters to miss out.
Our bower
bird bowers are slowly beginning to take shape and we are still on the look out
for sticks to use as part of our work.
We hope you
have a lovely weekend
Mel and Emma
