Creative Development - Welsh Artist

Skill - Develop and use understanding of colour, line and shape.
We continued our study of the Welsh artist Sarah Hopkins. This time we looked closely at her Welsh landscapes. We choose colours and tools to create a landscape using her work as a stimulus.

Thinking skills - planning

ICT - Using the digital camera

Skill - To experience a range of ICT resources

The children have enjoyed finding out how the digital camera works. They have explored the classrooms and taken many many photos!! Here are a selection:-

Thinking Skills - Develop

Physical Development - Obstacle course

This week the children enjoyed finding their way through an obstacle course. They also explored how they could steer a ball around the course.
Skill: Be able to move safely with increasing control and co-ordination.

Thinking - Planning

Language, Literacy and Communication - spelling.

We enjoyed thinking about initial letter sounds on this plasma screen activity. We read the letter in the middle of the screen and said the sound that the letter makes. Then we drew a line from the letter to any objects that began with that sound.Some of us have also been practising blending. We have been thinking about the sound 'ai' and the different ways that you can spell it (a_e, ay, ai). We have also been learning the Tricky Words 'be' and 'was'.

ICT Skills - create and present

Thinking skills - plan and reflect

Language, Literacy and Communication - letter formation.

This week we have found lots of different ways to work on our letter formation. We have used the Plasma screen, the whiteboard/s, chalk, brushes, and sand to practise writing our letters.
ICT skills - create and present

Thinking skills - Plan and reflect

CREATIVE DEVP'T - animal masks

Skill - To create images and objects that communicate ideas.

We have been making animal masks this week! We chose what animal we wanted to make from lots of different African animals. We then thought about the colours and materials we would need to make it look as 'real' as we could! Some of us coloured in masks too as you can see we even had an elephant making a mask!!!!
Thinking - planning and reflecting

Communication - oracy

LLC - 'We all went on safari'

Skill - To talk about characters and events.

This week we listened to the story 'We all went on safari'. It was a story from Tanzania in Africa. We enjoyed looking at the lovely pictures of the colourful African animals and where they live. We then looked for the same animals in our box of animals and tried to sort them into the same order as we found them in the story. We also retold the story on our storyboard, making sure that we put the pictures of the animals in the right order and retelling the story as we stuck the pictures on. We used the 'easispeak'microphone to re-tell our favourite part of the story - and loved playing back what we had said!!

Thinking - planning and reflecting

Developing ICT - creating and presenting

Developing Number - using mathematical info calcualting