At last we have had some snow ! In Grasshopper class we have been waiting for some snow all week. We made the most of it and went out to play. It was great fun trying to catch the snowflakes.
We have had a really busy week again - we have been thinking about floating and sinking all week and have carried out lots of experiments to find out what floats. We have found out that things filled with air are very good at floating. We also found that some apples float and some sink and we don't know why? Can anyone help us with that?
We have had a visit from the Dental Nurse and she told us all about healthy foods and how to look after our teeth properly. She had a horrible set of teeth that hadn't been looked after and we all got to hold them - yuk ! She also brought a horse puppet with her who spat water at us - that was great fun.
We have had lots of duck stories all week and have been really busy making our own ducks - big ones, small ones, painted ones ...... ducks of every kind. We are getting really good at cutting now and I think you will be able to tell when you look at all of our displays. We have also done some writing about ducks and Mrs Young was amazed at how good we are at sounding out to spell now - keep up the good work everyone !
We also made bridges of our own to try and rescue our ducks - good team work !
We have been learning to do subtraction this week (sometimes we call it 'taking away') and are learning to find out 'how many are left?' Why not try some take away problems at home? Also we have been counting backwards all week and have almost managed to get from 20 - 0 with no mistakes.
We have finished learning all the sounds of the alphabet in phonics and have started learning the names of the letters AS WELL AS the sounds. Look out for our next Phonics drop in to explain how we teach that 2 letters can make 1 sound - like 'sh' or 'ch'.
Just another few snow pictures to end with - have a good weekend playing in the snow !
Grasshopper Class