Week beginning 15.5.2017

"Run, run as fast as you can I'm the Gingerbread man!!"

Can you guess what story we have read this week?
Here are some of the things we have been busy doing...

Lovely Gingerbread Man

Mixing materials to create special effects...

'Can you take a picture of my cottage and put it on the blog?'



Here we come... the gingerbread crew.
 

Of course we had to have a go at baking some gingerbread biscuits

Ingredients, ready.

 

 

Given the lovely weather we spent time outside recapping on what it means to double a number and working out the answers using our fingers.

what's double 8?

 

 

 

We have enjoyed some visits from Year 1's this week while the Year 2's have been busy so we decided to try out something new...Our first 'P4C' (philosophy for children) session. 

We started with a question....

 

 The children discussed this briefly in pairs and generated their own lists.

 

We then put this to the vote, (with our backs turned so that we couldn't see what our friends had chosen.)

The Fox was the chosen suspect.

''I agree the fox is the baddy, because he ate the Gingerbreadman!''

''I disagree with you, because I think the fox tossed the Gingerbread up in the air to get him to the other side of the riverbank.''

 

We then concluded the session with a simple agreement or disagreement. Yes I agree he was the baddy, or No I disagree he was not the baddy.

 

Wow! What a fantastic session, so many thoughts and answers, we are all enthusiastic about our next session.

 

 

Congratulations to Shelby; our Golden Book winner, for being so much more independent with your writing in class.