Fit and Healthy!

This week in Foundation stage we have been thinking about how to stay fit and healthy!  With lots of talking about healthy foods we have been saying 'booo' to too much sugar and 'yey' to fruit and vegetables! 

 What's hidden in the jelly?!

 In our Maths we have been working hard on our counting and in Butterflies we have also been solving problems by halving - very important when our mascot Bob is trying to share his fruit fairly with his friend!

Lots of concentration as we take up Mrs Beaufort's challenge to halve shapes!

 

Using our senses to explore and describe different fruit and say how they are different or similar.  

International Food Day

Today was International Food Day so Butterflies class went and had a look at the big map in Reception to see some of the countries that children in our class come from; we also looked at some of the countries that families in our school might be bringing food in from.  We thought about what questions we might need to ask our visitors so we could find out about the food they'd brought.

 

The children in butterflies and caterpillars really enjoyed meeting the parents and tasting some of the food. We were feeling so inspired that we carried on back in the classroom...our theme for the last fortnight has been Chinese New Year.  We've also started thinking about the difference between healthy and unhealthy food, so we decided to make and try some stirfry - it was delicious!  Our hard work didn't stop there though, whilst we were busy cooking, Butterflies also used ordering connectives to start thinking about sentences we could use in a recipe so that other people could make our stirfry.

 

 

 

Back in the classroom, we used our creative skills to create stir fry plates with wool, paint and foam shapes for vegetables. We talked about what we would add to our stir fry to make them healthy.

 

 

World Book Day

For World Book Day the children wrote sentences to describe their outfits and tell everyone which character they'd dressed up as.  To finish their Literacy work the children shared their ideas and sentences to write a blog post (Mrs Ledger did the typing!).  Here is what the children thought we should let everybody know...

We dressed up as different characters from books.  We had a special assembly and shared our costumes.  Some of us brought in the book for our outfits.  In Literacy, we wrote about ourselves.

Caterpillar class looked carefully at each other's costumes and described what they could see:

Describing Winnie the Witch's hat:
"It has webs on it."
"Cobwebs"
"It's a witches hat, it looks scary"
I asked: what shape is it?
"Triangle"
"It's pointy"

Describing a dinosaur:
"A green thing"
"And his body and his back and his head"
"He's a dinosaur"
"He's a tyrannosaurus rex"
"He has black eyes"

Describing Harry Potter:
"The cloak at the back is dark"
"He has a wand"
"He has got glasses, they look like black circles"
"I've also got a scar"

Here are some of the rest of our costumes, can you describe them?

 

A busy half term

Well done to all the children who completed some home learning by writing, drawing or sticking pictures into your diaries about all the exciting things you got up to during half term...you've been so busy!

Mrs Ledger has enjoyed reading the diaries today, do continue to send them in during this week if children have done some work at home.  Here is just a small selection of the super work that was produced.

The great blog challenge

Today, Mrs Ledger challenged us to write a blog about our animal visitors, by coming up with a sentence to explain which animal was our favourite.

After having a think, we tried to make our sentences longer by using 'because' and 'and'.  Next, we practised our words in a sentence with a talk partner.  Then, we continued our Computing work by recording our sentences using an app called Dragon Dictation.  We spoke into the iPad, and it recorded our sentences by turning them into writing.  Mrs Ledger then added the text to the blog.  Here's what we had to say...

My favourite animal was the hamster because he was soft and had small feet.  

Archie

My favourite animal is the hamster because it's soft and and it is small.

James

My favourite number was Kara's bunny rabbit because it was soft.

Gwennie

My favourite animal was my pony because it was soft and fluffy.

Owen

My favourite animal was the horse because she was small and fluffy.

Abigail

My favourite animal was the pony because she was soft and small.

Sophie

My favourite is the guinea pig because he was small and white.

Matei

I like the hamster because he was furry and fluffy.

Griff

I liked Elsa the horse because I like her name and I like how she feels.

Rachel

I like the hamster because he was fluffy and had short legs.

Max

I like Elsa because she was soft and she has clip clops on her feet.

Anna.

My favourite animal was James' hamster because he was so fluffy and he was so soft.

Alfie

My favourite animal was Elsa because her name was called Elsa and she was soft.

Megan

I like the gecko because the gecko has a long tail and he has spots.

Oliver

I liked my rabbit because he was fluffy and soft. 

Kara

I like Kara's rabbit because he was soft. 

Ollie

My favourite animal was the bunny rabbit because it was soft.

Ella

My favourite animal is the guinea pig because he was white and brown. 

Matty

My favourite pet was the tortoise because it was slow and tiny.

Reuben

Computing Caterpillars

Caterpillars have been very busy exploring lots of different technology in the last couple of weeks. They have been using the interactive whiteboard for writing, reading and retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

 

 

Finding the right chair for the right bear!

 

 

Which bowl of porridge is Mummy bear's?

 We have been exploring a range of technological toys:

Taking photos with our toy camera

Using the till in the Pet Shop: saying how much things cost and typing the amount in to the till.

Taking calls from customers in the pet shop

As promised, the Butterflies showed us how the Beebots work and we have had lots of fun having races and challenging ourselves to program the Beebot to reach certain shapes.

How can we make the Beebot reach the red circle?

Clever Comptuing

We have really enjoyed getting to grips with some interesting computing activities in the last couple of weeks.  In ChIL the children have been using the computers and iPads to complete a range of interesting games including mazes, dressing activities, puzzles and phonics games.  Some of the children have been doing writing and typing on the interactive whiteboard, and some children have even used the photocopier to copy their own work for learning journals.

Today, Butterflies had a visit from our IT Technician Mr Sherwood, who helped us learn about how to use the beebots.  We all had a turn at programming the robots - perhaps you could ask your child to explain how they work.

Next week, butterflies will be tasked with becoming the teachers and showing the younger children in Caterpillars how the beebots work.  Watch this space for more photos and updates about our computing work.