Intensities

 Children played a game thinking of how to dial up or down a situation. We were looking at different strategies to bring intensities to an appropriate level.

E.g you go to an arcade and the noise is really bothering you

Leonardo Da Vinci

 This week we took a deep dive into Leonardo Da Vinci and his passion for birds and flight. He wrote over 35000 words about birds and flight. We looked in particular at one of his famous drawings. We then chose to draw our own bird wing or follow a tutorial re how to draw Leonardo's wing.

Parent morning

Last week we had several parents join us for our MindPlus session. Hopefully it gave them an insight into what we do in our classes.

 

The Wright Family

 Today we did an activity that involved coordinating our listening skills with our motor skills.

We listened to a story aboout the Wright family and everytime we heard the word wright/right we had to pass an object to the right, and everytime we heard the word left we passed to the left.

For the first paragraph we were so focussed on the passing that we didn't really grasp the message of the story.

We improved as the story went on.

Boggle

 We played a game of boggle this morning - the first time for many.

The children have 16 letters and a time limit of 4 minutes to come up with as many 3 or more letter words as they can.

They are not allowed to repeat letters in a word but can use each letter in a new word.

This is great for spelling rule practice.

This is the boggle we did this morning.

Example

fingers

beat

beats

basil

ring

rings

whale

whales

Raising the Flag - Tech Challenge

The challenge was to raise a flag at least 20 cm.

It had to be a freestanding and we had to see both sides of the flag.

There was a lot more planning before the construction began this time.

Counting to 9

The children had the challenge of counting to 9. 

If 2 people said the same number at the same time they had to start from 1 again.

They discovered that if they went around the table they could reach 9.

We discussed how we could do it without going around the table or talking to each other.