Sunday 30 October 2011

Diwali!!!!

Happy Diwali!!! We will be celebrating Diwali in class this week with lots of fun activities!!

Find out a bit about Diwali here--->About Diwali
Decorate your own rangoli pattern here----> Rangoli Pattern
More activities and a story here--->Diwali

This is Ravana, the ten headed Demon!!!

Bonfire night games!

Play these firework maths games to help you with your counting!!

Can you set the fireworks off in the right order? Click here---> Fireworks

Make your own firework display here--->Firework display

What will we be doing next week? 31stOct-4thNov

Literacy: Be working in our new spaceship role play area. I will be encouraging them to take on the role of the different people such astronaut, controller and time travelling in our real tardis!!

Maths: Be sorting and matching fireworks (not real...pictures) and then counting how many of each type there are, before finding the matching box and numeral. They will be encouraged to think about 1more/1less and adding 2 sets together.

Topic: Be celebrating the festival of diwali, drawing mendhi patterns on our hands, and on the IWB, decorating biscuits, listening to music and learning about the story. We will hopefully taste some traditional food from the festival and make some of our own decoration.

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Book Week Photos....The Hungry Caterpillar!

Making our chocolate rice crispy buns!!

Super independent writing.


Showing off our fantastic hungry caterpillar books! Super writing!

Tasting and describing the food from the story.

hmmmmm what does this one smell like?

Persevering at making up the jigsaws!


Puppet theatre time!




Painting a very fat caterpillar!!


Can we order the days of the week?

Playdough caterpillars!

Teamwork to play the hungry caterpillar game.

Repeating pattern games!

In maths this week we have been making repeating patterns. I'm am very impressed with how fab the children are of making their own patterns and making them more complicated by adding extra colours and shapes!!

Here you can have a go at identifying the repeating patterns---> Identify the Pattern

Here you can see if you can finish the pattern---> Finish the Pattern

Bertie the Bus!!

Bertie the bus is going to the zoo
Who does he see as he's passing though?!

Have a go at this alliteration game we played in class, can you remember what alliteration means?
Click here---->BertieTheBus 

Golden Children 13th October 2011

Jacob H: Jacob always makes me happy with his fantastic attitude on the mat and big smile! He has a great attitude to school and contributes well in class.

Issy: Issy is grown up and interested in learning and taking ownership of what she does. She has really come out of her shell since starting FS2.

Sunday 9 October 2011

Gingerbread Man!

This week in literacy we are going to be learning about the Gingerbread Man story and there will be lots of activties in the classroom for you to have a go at.

You can read the online version of the story here---->Gingerbread Man Story

Play a dress the Gingerbread Man game here----> Dress the Gingerbread Man

Decorate the Gingerbread Man here----->Decorate the Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Man Maze game----->Maze

Various Gingerbread Men counting games here--->Gingerbread Men Counting

Gingerbread Man jigsaw--->Jigsaw


Look at this gingerbread Man!!


Friday 7 October 2011

Mrs Warners alphabet game!

Here is the game you all enjoyed Mrs Warner playing in your classopoly time!! (You need flash player for it to work)

Click here--->Alphabet Game

Thursday 6 October 2011

Hungry Caterpillar Story and activities!!

Watch an animated version of the hungry caterpillar!!!!
Click here-----> Hungry Caterpillar Video


Play a caterpillar number ordering game here!
Clicke here---->Caterpillar Counting

Book Week!!

Who is this?
Can you remember what he ate?
What happened when he ate all this?


Golden Book Children!

Last week: Thursday 29th Sep
Rose D: Rose is a sensible mature and grown up girl who sets a super example of how to behave in FS2. Fantastic attitude Rose.
Myles: Myles comes to school every day with a cheery happy attitude and a big smile, ready to learn and enjoy the activities for the day. He puts a big smile on all the adults face
 
This week: Thurday 6th October
Bobby: Bobby is a popular and well loved member of FS2, he has a grown up attitude and is everyones best friend!
Edward: Edward is the class star at using his manners, please thankyou and good morning. He has shown himself to be mature and positive towards his learning.