Life Education Van and today!

Wow, what a busy and fun two days we have had!

Thursday started with a lovely visit from Noah's chicken. After completing our work last week on chickens, the children had a chance to get up close and personal! They really enjoyed being able to stroke her and ask lots of questions!

This was followed by 'The Life Education Van' which was amazing! The children were thoroughly engaged and highly motivated by the variety of activities they participated in. There lesson was based on the theme - I can eat a rainbow. Within this area of learning, the children learned about food groups, how they help our bodies and healthy portions a day. They learned some brilliant actions to help them remember the food groups. Can you child remember the action for Dairy (cheese as they brush their teeth) Carbohydrates (pasta makes us faster while running on the spot) Protein (say protein and flex their arm muscle) and Fruit and Veg (hey hey 5 a day). They also looked inside the body at organs and their role in digesting food and keeping our bodies healthy. They had a super time!

In Maths the children worked on fact families and inverse operations (addition and subtraction). We used numbers up to 20. For example; 15+5 = 20, 5+15  =20, 20- 5=15, 20-15 =5. Can your child find any fact families?

In Topic this week we learned about the 7 continents of the world and used the many postcards (thank you to all your friends and family for sending those in) to look at which continents they all came from. We learned a song to help us remember the continents based on the song 'We've got the whole world in our hands'. Can your child remember the song? I have sent home the postcards that had names on them for the children to keep. We still have lots here that we are going to use over the next few weeks that do not have names on. If you were expecting one back, please let me know and I will try to find it for you. Once again, thank you to all of you!

The children also completed a big write today for their Literacy work on 'really wild'. There were some amazing facts and sentences being written about all the different animals they have learned about this half term! 

This weeks Dojo winner, with the most dojo points was Isaac. Well done!

I hope you have a fantastic weekend and look forward to seeing you back in our classroom next week!