Chinese New Year! On Friday 27th January 2017, years 1 and 2 spent the afternoon learning all about Chinese New Year. We created our own Chinese lanterns and fans, exploring why certain colours and symbols are important to their culture. We then made our own vegetable stir fry. The children did a great job at preparing all of the vegetables and enjoyed tasting their creation.
English: We have been learning about the story of "Laura's Star" by Klaus Baumgart. We have sequenced the story and used speaking and listening actvities to explore the different characters and settings. We have also written some letters to NASA about fallen stars that we found in our playground that we then tried to send home the same way that Laura did in our book!
Cooking: We have been learning how to find a half and a quarter of amounts and shapes. We used this knowledge to make our own pizza's where we have to half or quarter our ingredients.
Art: We have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh's "A Starry Night". We looked carefully at the techniques that he used in his painting and tried to recreate our own!
Traction Man's Thornton adventure!
Adjectives messy activity! We looked in each of the different tubs at what we could see, smell and feel to think of some super adjectives.