Eid and Minibeast week

​This week, following the bank holiday weekend we celebrated Eid. The children listened to the story of Rameerah’s Ramadan and  learnt the Eid greeting Eid Mubarak, which means happy Eid. In class we looked at how Eid celebrates the end of Ramadan for Muslim people around the world. We looked at the moon and star as the sign for Islam and how the crescent moon marks the end of the month of Ramadan. We made cards with the moon and star as well as creating Mendi patterns. We also looked at some different mosques and noticed features such as the tall minarets, domes and symmetry. In maths we looked at examples of symmetry in buildings, shapes and nature. We played games to identify if a picture is or isn’t symmetrical.
 
For the remainder of the week we continued with our growing topic, looking at minibeasts. We listened to the story of Superworm and talked about the rhyme of the story as well as noticing all the different minibeasts in the story and sorting them by the number of legs and writing captions to describe the creatures. We have had a wormery in class to observe the movement of the worms and we made wool patterned worms and compared different length playdough worms.  On Friday we continued with our bean diary, looking for changes in our bean plants.