Welcome to a beautiful sunny Thursday at Holy Family.
Here’s our learning for today:
Whilst each class was participating in a Sport lesson with Mrs Cooymans, the other class were developing their reading skills in pairs, enjoying ‘Come Read With Me’.
LEARNING POWERS: CREATIVITY
We shared our ideas about what creativity is and how we use it. Here are the children’s thoughts:
We also watched some of this video in which someone is amazingly creative using just their hands to make artwork:
PLAY INVESTIGATIONS
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- Hartley used creativity in his role play
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- Vonn challenged himself to write down all the numbers he could
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- Agamjot starts the jigsaw puzzle
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- Liam loves bubbles
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- Teamwork got he jigsaw done
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- Andrew and Dylan collaborated to build a dinosaur world
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- Riva is hula hooping
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- Joshua is constructing with the blocks
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- Kyle blow bubbles
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- As does Vincent
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- Deanna and Arielle make a magical picture
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- Unicorns!
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- Lowell and Yasha are collaborating
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- Kyle and Hartley enjoying role play
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- Victoria is busy creating a picture
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- Abel is making a picture
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- Ariana made a book
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- Riva was inspired by the video and made a butterfly with her hands
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- Cashier gives change
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- A very arty group
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- Playing tic tac toe
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- Lina used her creativity to make a piece of art
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- Abhay is busy colouring in a body outline drawn with chalk
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- Aleer and Micky have a spinning competition
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- Harjas is solving the jigsaw
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- Kevin used his creativity to draw
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- Abel using the blocks and animals
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- Dylan and Andrew use their imagination every time the dinosaurs come out!
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- Anthony is making a picture with the construction felt kit
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- Ebony makes a picture with the felt pieces
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- Liam prepares the landscape
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- Look at Liam’s beautiful dinosaur felt picture
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- Mikayla lends a helping hand to Lina
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- Priya, Bella and Scarlett are using the chalk pastels to create pictures
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- Ambrose loves drawing
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- Kevin is busily drawing too
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- Vincent drew a ‘killer shark’
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- Tri drew a shark
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- Lowell drew a tree
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- Shruti draws with the chalk
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- Drawing around Hartley
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- Vonn draws with the chalk
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- Hartley adds detail to his ‘chalk self’
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- Isla enjoys hopscotch
REFLECTON
The children were invited to reflect on their creativity in their learning journals:
HEALTH
Today the theme of the lesson was friendship and inclusion. We began with Mrs Handforth reading the story of ‘The Carrot Club’. You can listen to the story below. In the story, the carrots have created a club where only carrots can hang out and play. When the other vegetables discover the club, the carrots tell them they are ‘too boring’ and ‘not cool enough’ to join. Only carrots are allowed. Until … Polly Parsnip paints herself orange and disguises herself as a carrot. The carrots love her! She can sing, dance, play and is very funny! One day Polly, without thinking, jumps into a swimming pool and the carrots realise that she is actually a PARSNIP! Will the carrots accept her for who she is? Or will they tell her to leave?
When we went out for fitness, we asked the children to be as inclusive as they could in their play. The challenge was to make sure everyone felt they belonged. And what a wonderful job they did!
This group of children played shop, taking orders on their mobile phone (a piece of bark) and creating pizzas, brad rolls, cupcakes, ice cream and jellies. All of which tasted amazing! Well done Ebony, Scarlett, Shruti and Priya.
Ebony tells us about the shop:
Isabella, Ariana and Mikayla worked collaboratively to dig a hole. They discovered that at the bottom of the sandpit, the sand met with soil! The hold grew and got a log frame. Then other children got into the hole and it became a portal!
Anthony and Liam started filling a red container with sand to make a castle. As other children became interested in their play, Anthony and Liam included them in the activity.
Abhay started making sandcastles along the perimeter of the sandpit and others saw this idea. Abhay let them join in and help him:
Meanwhile, in Log Park, Dylan and Andrew were dragons. Andrew was holding onto his precious dragon egg as Hartley and Abel, the pirates, wanted to steal it!
Victoria, Nicole and Sahana were playing ‘house’. There was a log baby, and Victoria gave it a bath.
Lowell, Vonn and Yasha got busy building a gym.
Riva and Kyle were duelling with swords and magic lanterns.
Riva and Kyle talk about their play:
And the soccer teams played harmoniously:
We finished the day singing Happy Birthday to Andrew, who gave every child in the double class a gift to help share his special day (on Saturday). Such generosity of spirit and so many appreciative and well mannered children said ‘Thank you!’
What a wonderful day!
