'On the Same Day in March' is a lovely book that takes the reader around the world to discover how different the weather is around the world.
After reading the story we discussed some of the places the children would like to visit and why. Surprisingly quite a few of them would love to visit Antarctica so they could stroke polar bears and get to spend time with penguins.
Inspired by the weather discussions we have had in class one, some of the children built a shelter from the sun or as they called it 'A place to cool down'.
We created two contrasting part of the world in our small world area and noticed how different the colours are. 'Blue and white because it's snowy and cold'and 'The brown is hot'.
We had a busy afternoon melting chocolate and mixing ingredients to make a delicious chocolate bark.
Meanwhile in our fantasy world Batman's big brother and daddy were there busy looking after a baby. 'Let's give him some milk, he might be hungry. We need to find a milk bottle'.
We have been trying to 'cement' our number knowledge of those tricky teens numbers this week, thinking about how to identify the number, how to count that many of something and how to represent it with Numicon.
We also continued our topic work based around the weather and created some wonderful sun catcher type stain glass windows for our classroom windows.
The children have worked incredibly hard this week to complete their very first set of assessment papers in maths and reading, this is a skill which they will need as they make their transition into Class 2, as it will be something they complete more regularly.
Everybody approached the task in a calm and collected manner and should feel very proud of all of their knowledge and skills that they confidently used to complete the papers. Well done.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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