R1 loved this story and we had such a brilliant time learning about bicycles that Mrs Addicott kept getting carried away and forgot to take lots of photos....sorry! We also got started with our Christmas Fun! Take a look at our Christmas Fun page to see more snaps!
Making paper chains...round like wheels on a bicycle!
We made the chain of a bike using our maths linking chains...
...we also made wheels and counted how many links we used!
We love our new Christmas Toy Shop role play...we even filmed in it for our video!
We measured the rim of different sized wheels with cubes and recorded our results!
What a busy week R3 have had! We loved our book 'Mrs Armitage On Wheels' by Quentin Blake and we completed lots of fun activities based around her and her special bike. Here are a few photos from this week for you to look at.
Mrs Armitage's Bike.
We had to draw and cut out some of her inventions.
We took our time nd tried to include lots of detail.
We think it looks amazing!!
Becoming sculptures with our playdough.
This is Mrs Armitage.....
and her bike!
We did some observational drawings from the book.
Printing wheel repeating patterns using the end of cotton reels. with
Making wheel prints.
These are ready for action!
Wheel weaving.
It is trickier than it looks!
Our task was to complete the outline of each bike with sequins.
The tweezers made it more difficult.
We used our fine motor skills and achieved some good results!
How many linking chains will we need to put a chain on each bike?
We recoded our answers on the clipboards.
We measured around different size wheels using multilink.
The big wheels made us count up to very high numbers.
Using the linking chains to outline this big bike.
It took a long time and plenty of teamwork!
Time to collage and make this bike nice and colourful.
We made our own wheels out of paper plates..
This week our maths was exploring coins. We sorted them into groups.
We used coins to fill each purse with the correct amount.
Our coin rubbings were really effective!
Jigsaw time.....
working together!
We made shapes by hooking elastic bands onto the geo boards.
A fun way to make new words.
We used our sounds well!
Angus the elf made his introduction this week.
He sent us on an elf hunt.
We completed our class challenge along the way.
Head. shoulders, knees and toes.
We ended with a dance-a-thon.
Getting into the Christmas spirit....
preparing our wish lists. We will use them to write a list for Father Christmas.
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