Rainbow week

​Last week was rainbow week. We began the week by listening to ‘Life is a rainbow’ and have learnt about colour mixing by experimenting with mixing drops of red, yellow and blue dye and in the painting area mixing colours of the rainbow. We listened to the story of Noah’s Ark and retold it with actions and listened on joined in with songs about the story. We made collage rainbows, doves and made arks using the construction materials. The children demonstrated some excellent teamwork making arks together.
Later in the week we thought about how we could describe an animal on the ark to write about it as well as sorting animals and putting them into different sized enclosures.
 
We have learnt the Rainbow song using Makaton and enjoyed other songs about rainbows and colours as well as practising our singing for our Christmas concert.
 
In maths we learnt about number 7 and that when counting we do 1 to 1 and the last object we count is our stopping number. We sorted groups of different coloured objects and practised counting to see which colour had the most objects. Later in the week we did more sorting by sorting animals so that only 7 could be in a group.