This week on Welly Walk we went hunting for minibeasts! We did some research about minibeasts before we went and learnt to identify honey bees, earthworms, millipedes, butterflies, caterpillars, woodlice, spiders, slugs and snails. The weather was very cool and damp again but that made it perfect to find lots of slugs, snails and woodlice! We hunted by lifting up logs and fallen branches, searching the cracks in walls for spiders and their webs and looking under leaves.
We were so lucky and found lots of worms, slugs and woodlice and also we found two ladybirds! We could identify some of their features and used magnifiers and magnifying glasses to help us look at them in detail. We also collected them in pooters so we could handle them carefully without hurting them. Before we came back to school we released them back into the nature area so they could continue to live happily in their home. We will continue with our minibeast hunt next week and hopefully the weather will be warmer and we will find different ones too!
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This week we have been learning to deconstruct and construct our own sentences. We began by doing this orally and playing a fun game. Some of us had to hold a sentence in our head and sit in a circle, then take turns to say the next word in the sentence. Some of us played a game where we could make up our own sentences and chose a word that makes sense to add to the sentence on our turn.
Some of us have been learning that words are made up of sounds. We counted the sounds in words, used scissors to cut the word into sounds, Fred Talked to read the sounds, then put the sounds back together to read the word. We then practised Fred Talking and reading more words. Some of us have been counting the words in sentences. We read some nonsense sentences as they were not in the right order. First as a group we talked about what clues we could see to where the words go. We know that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, so we moved those words and tried to construct the sentence so it was correct. We were given our own mixed up sentences so we cut them into words, spotted the clues and moved the words around until they made sense. We are working hard to become independent writers and structure our own sentences, so these activities are helping us to do that! Here we are being fabulous detectives and super readers! This week we have been learning some new vocabulary to help us learn the parts of a plant. We have been learning seed, stem, leaves, flower, petals, pollen and roots.
We have had the opportunity to plant our own seeds and will watch them grow over the next few weeks. We are hoping to see them shoot very soon! We are also taking part in an experiment to watch a bean grow. We placed it in a see through sealed bag with some wet tissue paper and are excited to see any changes it will go through over the next few weeks. We also did the same again but placed it in soil. Keep checking the blog for the updates! As part of our "Watch it Grow" topic we have been learning the poem "Under a Stone" from the Poetry Basket. We have been trying so hard to use expression by changing our voices and facial expressions to make it exciting and fun for people listening to our poem. We hope you enjoy it! We are so lucky in the Rainbows to have such diversity and enjoy celebrating each child. We often share information about our cultures such as Christmas, Easter and Eid and we know that it is wonderful everyone has different beliefs and interests.
One thing we are very proud of is that some Rainbows can speak different languages, and not just one more but two more! We have been practising answering the register saying good afternoon in English, Polish, Bengali, Romanian and Portuguese. We will soon be moving on to answering in Thai. Rainbows are very clever! They also use Makaton signs to say good afternoon too! Portuguese - Boa tarde Polish - Dzień dobry Bengali - Śubha aparāhna Romanian - Bună ziua Thai - S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy Rainbows are really good at being kind, and know that it makes our classroom, school and world such a lovely place to be.
As we are so kind and caring, every time we do something extra special we get a pebble added to our kindness jar. When we reach the top we will get a special reward for being so wonderful and shining bright! This week we have had a couple of lovely examples of kindness. The first has included a child who hurt themselves and couldn't manage to carry something. Another child saw they were struggling and independently picked up the other side and helped them carry it. Another lovely act of kindness was a child was walking through the cloakroom and saw a coat on the floor. We have often talked about looking after peoples property and also how things on the floor can be unsafe for us and accidents could happen. This child was walking through and independently picked it up and hung it on a peg without being asked. What kind and thoughtful acts of kindness this week Rainbows are really good at thinking of others! This week the children have been learning that labels tell you what something is. We have been segmenting and blending to read labels and match them to the correct picture. We then moved on to generating words about a honey bee during the next lesson. The children looked at different features such as the eyes, body and legs and came up with the words; tiny, shiny, fluffy, fuzzy, black, yellow, stripy, long and sharp (the stinger.) In the final lesson the Rainbows used the words to structure a sentence orally and we wrote it together as a team by segmenting the sounds.
The children had the opportunity to complete this activity independently during provision time. They chose a minibeast, thought of a fact about it and wrote it on a speech bubble. You can see their amazing writing below! Here a some of the Rainbows we have celebrated this week! We celebrate so many different achievements! Here is a reminder of what we celebrate.
Golden Book - children who are ready, reliable and resilient take home a certificate on a Friday. Starbooks reading award - for 50, 100, 150 and 200 times they have read at home. The children get a certificate and depending on the number of times they read, they get a bookmark, bronze badge, silver badge and a special Books, Biscuits and Brew treat! Dojo's - collecting 25, 50, 100 and more! The children receive a certificate and work their way towards a special activity, such as making slime, and then another activity with Mr Smith doing some sports, or with Mrs Fitchett doing a craft activity. (You can see Mylah's craft activity below.) Your child may also come home with an Incredible Me! certificate or sticker and this means they have achieved something amazing! This could be an act of kindness, learning something new, being resilient and not giving up, being brave, ANYTHING that staff are amazed by! You may also get a phone call home if we don't manage to speak to you at home time and would like to share something your child has done that we are incredibly proud of. Every week on the way to and from welly walk we have been learning to cross the road safely. We know this is especially important for when we walk places with our families and friends, and also when we went on our trip to the library walking through Wombwell. We know to stop, look, listen and think to help keep our self and others safe.
This week Miss Clementson chose a Rainbow to be our crossing champion for next week, someone who can independently cross the road doing all the things mentioned above. Next week they will show their friends how to cross the road and help keep them safe by giving advice. Here is our first crossing champion! Well done for keeping safe! We have had such a busy week learning all about minibeasts and developing our skills! We have learnt lots of new vocabulary and can identify ladybirds, butterflies, ants, bees, slugs, snails, caterpillars, beetles and many more!
We have been measuring plastic worms and insects to see how long they are using cubes, creating minibeasts with detail in the dough area to strengthen our fine motor skills and develop our creative skills, we have been painting and colouring using the correct colours and added detail, threaded spiders webs with wool and so much more. Here are just a few of our activities! |
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