The children are learning about things around us that repeat. We will be looking at life cycles in the plant and animal kingdom further on in the term.
We have started working in Thinking Groups, to help us extend our ideas, the children are learning to work collaboratively and to question in order to further develop their understanding.
It is a great way for the children to share their ideas and learn new things from their peers, we record what they know, what they think might be true and what they want to know on the whiteboard, colour coded for each group. Our question in this session was "How do frogs grow?"
In maths, most of us are still working on the forward number sequence to 20. We try lots of different ways to help us, however it is really tricky and the sequence from 11-20 needs lots of attention. If you would like to help at home, simply take the time to ask your child to get 20 of anything. Peas, eggs, slices of bread, buttons or anything that you have 20 of and help them count....as often as you can. If they see you doing it, they will value it more.
Lastly, we had the amazing Illustrator Donovan Bixley visit us today, check out the school library for a look at what he has done. Amazing!! He spoke of the importance of doodles, letting your children run free with pencil and paper, and how those doodles can become something if you just keep looking.
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