Delicious Peas!

Today in Room 12 Aedan's mum Emma brought a yummy treat.  A big bag of freshly picked peas from her garden that were still in their pods.  Many of us knew that peas came from a plant but we had only ever tasted peas that had been bought from the supermarket in a bag.  It was exciting to open up the pods to find some peas inside!  Some students said that they tasted a lot sweeter than peas that they had eaten before.  We also read a story about two boys who ate peas from their garden called Look in the Garden.  It was such a lovely, sunny day to sit under a tree eating fresh peas and reading a story.  Thank you Emma and Aedan.

Our Classroom

By Aedan and Anya

The Wackiest Of All Ideas

Gift Our creation is called Spacecar . It can go on land and in space.

Hippo Making

Today we made hippos and we read a hippo poem. First we coloured the hippos in. Then we cut them out. Then we sellotaped them and glued them together. We put sticks on them. We stuck teeth on them. We get to take them home today. We can show our mums and dads. Here is our poem.

Shopping at school

Today our classroom turned into a supermarket temporarily!

We have been looking at financial literacy, money, saving, and needs and wants this term. Today we brainstormed all the things that we can buy at the supermarket.

Then the students paired up, and looked around the supermarket to see what they could buy with their money. They had to write down on their lists what they would buy, and keep a running total to make sure they were coming in under budget. It was a great maths activity and a challenge to figure out what were the best things to buy with our money.

At the end of the session we circled the things on our list that were healthy, talked about why we need healthy foods, and talked about the things that we found difficult in this task.

Planet Posters.

Room 12 have had a lot of fun learning about the planets in our solar system.  We have been doing research, learning songs and exploring with art.  Today we were busy making posters about the different planets.  We worked in groups of 4-5 and we all had different tasks.  After we had finished finding all of the information and presenting it on our posters, we then shared all of our information with the class.

Here is a song that we have been listening to about the different planets in the Solar System.

Please come and check out our posters. You'll be sure to learn all sorts of new information.  Room 12 are becoming experts on all things about space.

Planets and Shaving Cream

What do planets and shaving cream have in common? Art, apparently! Today we made planets for our wall, using shaving cream and dye powder. We've been looking at space, and the solar system and we wanted a planet display for our wall. Sensory and messy play is an important part of learning so we made the most of it this afternoon!

First we looked at the colours of the planets, got into groups, and then cut out our planets. We put shaving cream on the table, and mixed it around with our hands. Then we added dye powder in the colour of each planet, and mixed that in. We had to wash our hands next, before we put our planets face-down on the shaving cream and patted it, to make sure that there was colour on all the parts of the paper.