Month: October 2019

We have been asking the question,” Who lives in our forest? and today we met some possible residents. The Pioneers were absolutely delighted to meet a snake and find out that like the boa constrictor in our song, in squeezes its prey. Next we were introduced to the hedgehog,who seemed to hicccup when he was tickled. The owls were spectacular and the barn owl flapped his big wings.

The squeals of delight said it all.

Pop in to the classroom to see our story maps and some more pictures. We also have a wonderful snakeskin to looks at.

Pumpkins are things of beauty and beautiful to hold. The initial idea was to paint the pumpkins-stilllife style however the instruction can be interpreted in a different way. One of the Pioneers decided to paint the pumpkin so that set our exploration off in another direction. We painted on the pumpkin and tried rolling and pressing them on to paper to make imprints.

This was truly beautiful to watch and we will repeat this to enjoy further exploration.

The Pioneers love to tell stories and we have been using symbols on sticks to support this work. The little figures,jewels and small houses become charactars and  setting for fabulous fun. Keep an eye out for new stories in the Blue Files.

Lots of lovely mathematics has been going on in the classroom. Each day we get together and do a bit of clapping,jumping,drawing and counting. We move the beads on the bead string. We count numicon. We make patterns with bricks. We draw and we write. When appropriate we watch N-N-N-N-Numberblocks. The blue plates are great to write on and our cubes dont fall off.

Happy Maths