TERM 6 WEEK 1
"June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies."
Welcome to June and welcome to the last term of the academic year (as I type my eyes are already watery).
Reminder - as of Monday we all come in through the main school gate in the mornings (eyes are getting more watery).
Right no more talk of what happens next, let us focus on the here and now - its far more fun and interesting.
Show and tell this week was a tear jerker (most things this term will have the same effect on me). Part 1 - We were shown a book all about planets, Part 2 - we were given drawings of ourselves and they were clearly labelled with our names - every one of us were gifted our drawings......cue more tears from me!!!!
Then Mystery Reader, this week we had a Grandad - it was Stanley's Grandad who was really nervous to start and was still a little nervous at the end even though he did an amazing job! Stanley's smile could not have been wider, he was so full of pride - and quite rightly so.
Balance bikes are the highlight of the week - we managed to dodge the showers and this week we adventured up onto the track. Now that we have mastered the skill and balance required we have decided that next week we would like to take the cones onto the track and weave in and out on some parts and 'free wheel' on the downhill parts of the track - isn't it fantastic when the children can lead their own learning and make informed choices of the direction they want their learning to go in. We love it.
In maths we continued thinking about shapes, both 2D and 3D. Again, we managed to avoid the rain and went on a shape walk outside to see what shapes we could find. The balls looked like spheres, the netball post looked like a cylinder, the hoops were circles. We found lots of things!
In Art, we started to think about collage. The children discovered that you can make a collage by using pieces of cut up or torn up paper to create a picture. They made some lovely robins. They also used the multilink to create some objects.
And of course, we spent a lot of quality time 'free flowing'. Now this photo may not mean a lot to you but it was hugely significant to us. It reminded us just how far the children have come since September. In this photo there is so much going on - they have pulled out so many resources which is fantastic - they now know what they need, how to access it, how to use it and how to tidy it away. They also know how to share, co-operate, communicate, problem solve, change the direction of their independent learning and so much more. They stayed in this learning area for at least half an hour - all learning together - it was so wonderful listening to their talk (yes, my eyes were watery again).
