Caterpillar Class at Forest School

The children have been very resourceful with the water, making mud, painting, investigating and experimenting.

"It feels really gooey."

"I'm going to do an experiment, I'll leave it in the sun to see what happens"

........"it's changed to light brown!"

They discovered that the stones changed colour when they were wet.

I've found a golden egg, it's a birds egg.

"I'm going to make a nest for it."

Some boys organised an egg & spoon (or spade & stone) race,

& others chose to spend some quiet time looking at information books while relaxing in the Forest School armchair.

  

Reception week beginning - 22.05.17

This week's learning activities will be based around the story,

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

by Judith Kerr

Literacy Focus: - This week the children will be writing about the characters and  events which take place in the story.

Maths Focus: - Our maths activities will focus on sharing. We will present the children with the problem solving scenario that if the tiger returns for tea we will need to teach him to share  our food. The children will have a given number of objects on a plate which they will have to share with the tiger. The children will be extended in this activity by finding out what numbers can be equally shared and linking sharing activities to finding out half of a number.

 

 

This week in Caterpillar Class: -

We have been very busy writing about events from the story!

 

In the Writing Area we have been encouraged to write our own stories using pictures of our favourite TV and film characters as a stimulus. It has been lovely to see the children writing so enthusiastically!

 

Using materials of our choice we made our own tiger representations.

 

 

I used black and orange  oil pastels to make my tiger picture - Muiz

 

I used a paper plate. I painted it orange to make a tiger. I put whiskers with pipe cleaners. I used circles to make the eyes. Scarlett

 

I wrote the pupils, then I made those ears. I made the whiskers and the nose. I made a smile by cutting it out. Al-Ameen.

 

I used a paper plate and I painted my tiger. I stuck eyes on and I used paper for ears. I used straws for whiskers. I painted a smiley face - Darcey.

For our maths activities we taught the tiger how to share his food.

2 cakes each 

We can share the pizza by having 4 bits for the tiger and 4 for me. 

 

 

3 heart biscuits for the tiger and 3 for me.

 

We found out that some numbers can be shared equally others and others can't.

We recorded independently our findings: -

 

We linked sharing to finding half of a number. We shared a number of spots on a ladybirds back to find out what half of a number was.

 

 

 

We used our knowledge of doubles to find half of a number too!

 

 

10 and 10 makes 20. 10 is half of 20.Even numbers can be shared odd numbers can't.

 

We enjoyed making cups of tea at the water tray!

 

 

 

In Ladybird Class this week: 

We have been doing some awesome retelling of the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea and addition our own bits in as well. 

 

Teddy K. and Adam share their story ideas and read over their writing to check it. 

Zac has worked hard this week to give a great beginning, middle and end to his story with description to link all the ideas together.  Well done Zac some great story language used. 

  

The children wrote invitations to tea on paper and also used the interactive board. 

We painted tigers with their stripes and also tore orange and black paper to show our tiger stripes.

These children have been captivated as they listen to a story that Vivienne is telling them, all about a tiger.  

We continued to share our growing experiences from home and enjoyed using the outdoor classroom this week – as it has been very hot. 

 

                                 

There has been lots of great mathematical language being used in Ladybird class. 

We know that if we share into 2 groups equally, it can also be called half.  We were very good at helping to teach the tiger how to share. 

In our role-play area we set up a scenario to help the children use the language to compare weight and length [heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest; tall, long short, small…]

The tiger had come to visit Sophie and they want to make a log pile house. 

Sophie is only little and she could not pick up really heavy logs, but the tiger can easily pick up the logs. 

 

The children really enjoyed this task and building different style dens, houses and castles using some lovely mathematical language. 

 

Jacob K. Chloe G. and Maddy have all been making their own number lines. 

Olivia built a house and inside there was a tea party going on.  ‘They all having tea, but there is no room for the tiger in there.’

I was very hot so Lila invented a shower with ‘...really cold water, to make you feel fresh when it’s hot.’

We even had some funky sunglasses being designed by these boys.