Welcome to Wonderful Wednesday!
Here’s our learning for today:
LIBRARY
Today in Library our shared text was Extraordinary by Penny Harrison and Kate Wilson.
A gentle tale about reaching for the stars and being extraordinary . . . but remembering the ordinary too. Extraordinary celebrates the best moments in life: the ones we share with friends and family. They may be simple, they may be ordinary, but they are moments we will cherish forever.
HANDWRITING
Some of us practised forming the letter a correctly today, whilst others worked on the consonant blend fr.
SHARED READING
Today’s shared text continued to explore our froggy theme … Into the Pond explores the life cycle of frogs. The children were really enthused by the illustrations in this text.
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- Lots of the children shared their experiences of seeing frogspawn in ponds and creeks.
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- They also enjoyed talking about tadpoles they have seen.
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- Lots of children recognised the development of the body parts, relating it to their labelling of the parts of a frog.
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- We talked about the fact that fish is a living creature that needs to eat. It isn’t doing anything wrong when it tries to eat the tadpole.
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- The children were fascinated with how frogs can extend their tongues and catch flies with the sticky ‘blob’ on the end. We imagined what we would look like if our tongues were this long!
PLAY INVESTIGATIONS
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- Hartley and Aisha are in the role play corner
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- Abel and Tri
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- Riva is practising writing numbers
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- Ambrose and friends were enjoying playing Jenga
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- Ebony and Vonn are painting
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- Victoria is at the light table
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- Williams and Liam using the wooden diggers to excavate
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- Armin is playing with the cars
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- “They’re racing.”
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- “This is me and Charlotte going for a walk in the woods.”
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- Artists at work
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- Yasha is deciding who won the sprint race: it looks like it was Lowell!
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- Isla was telling a story using the dolls
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- Shruti loves playing with the doll house
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- Dylan and friends are busy playing with the cars and animals
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- Vincent and LiOne enjoyed dressing up
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- They said they were ‘clowns’
SCIENCE
We are exploring the biological sciences, learning about living  and non-living things. We took an incursion this afternoon over to the MUDLA to see some of the mammals, reptiles, fish and other critters that inhabit this exciting space in our school.
We spoke about expectations and rules before visiting the MUDLA and were really proud of the fact that the children remembered to use low voices and move carefully about the room, so as not to frighten the living things. Well done!
The children were invited to sketch some of the living things they saw.
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- Scarlett
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- Close up of the lizard – great attention detail, Scarlett!
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- Harjas drew the yabby
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- Mikalya
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- Close up of Mikayla’s marvellous sketches
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- Isla drew one of the hopping mice
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- Vincent drew a fish, complete with all the fins
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- Ariana
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- Shruti
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- Riva
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- Abhay
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- Aleer drew a shoal of fish
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- Sahana
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- Dylan drew the tree frog and a water snail
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- Eerat
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- Abel drew a wide range of MUDLA creatures
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- Ebony drew many creatures; this is her sketch of a fish
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- Ambrose
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- Armin drew the frill necked lizard
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- Victoria
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- Williams did a marvellous drawing of the lizard
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- Micky drew some fish
Mrs Handforth isn’t quite sure who the amazing artist is here … but WOW! what super sketches of the MUDLA’s living things:
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- Wow!
When we returned to class we discussed how we can group things into living things and non-living things. The children had some great ideas which we are going to explore further in our next science lesson.
Have a peaceful evening everyone. A reminder that it is Sport tomorrow and that the children should come to school in their Sport uniform. Thank you.
What wonderful artists there are in the class.