Observing who we are and what we look like We read 'The Colors of Us', a story about a girl who discovers that all her friends and neighbours have different shades of skin. She uses words such as 'chocolate', 'butterscotch', and 'pizza crust' to describe their skin colour. We tried to think of words to describe our own skin colour, then we looked at the different shades of pencils we had to see which one matched our skin. Some children chose to colour in their skin colour with pencil, while others mixed paint to try and get the right shade. We used wool to make our hair, and used the ipad to take photos of our eyes, nose and mouth to help us draw these the way we saw them. Jelly As part of our inquiry into the letter J this week, we explored jelly. Firstly, we put some tiny water beads into water. Soon, they started expanding and after a few hours, they had soaked up all the water and were really big! They were fun to play with and felt like jelly. Then, for our cooking this week, we made strawberry jelly. We used frozen strawberries, gelatine sheets and sugar. The gelatine sheets were interesting to observe as they became soft in cold water, and then disappeared in the warm water! When we mixed everything together is was liquid, but after some time in the fridge, we had strawberry jelly. We enjoyed it for our snack. Positional Language
To increase our exposure to positional language, we have been telling the story of the three Billy Goats Gruff. We have also read 'Going on a Bear Hunt' and it is our 'ringtime' that we act out each day. When our buddies visited last Tuesday, we spent some time in the playground showing them how we could go under, over, next to and between. Comments are closed.
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