Dinosaur egg!!

Last week we had a special delivery of a strange looking egg in our classroom. Helivia found it in my finished work tray. It was big and brown with white spots on it. It was left with a note written by a Mummy, asking RM to take care of her egg. We talked about what might be in it, and decided it could be a baby dinosaur, a baby crocodile, spiderman or a butterfly!! Some thought there might be chocolate or money in it...!!!

We found a box to keep it warm and made signs around it to tell people to be quiet and do not break it!

On Thursday however the egg cracked and whatever was inside ran out leaving a trail of footprints all the way to the window ledge....

We think it was a baby dinosaur and he ran off to the jungle or dinosaur land...!!

The strange egg!

A box of fabric to keep it warm.

Please do not bounce!! Thank you Joshua!

The egg cracked!

The baby ran away!

Helivia is pretending to be a baby dinosaur!

Dinosaurs!!

Last week we started our topic of dinosaurs. We read  'Harry and the bucket full of dinosaurs' and established that a lot of the boys love dinosaurs! During our joint activities with RS we made paper plate dinosaurs and the boys loved to make a home for the dinosaurs to play in, creating trees for them to eat from, and lakes for them to drink from. Children used stencils to prepare fantastic artwork.

In maths we determined how many cubes wide and long a dinosaurs foot might be, and that we need 18 pairs of shoes to fill the whole area of a dinosaurs foot.  

Making a home for the dinosaurs.

Dinosaur stencil art.

writing in dinosaur dust!

Playing with dinosaurs.

Dinosaur masks

Dinosaur crafts

Under the Sea continues..

Our classroom door of sea turtles.

We had a busy week as we finished our under the sea topic. The children made walruses and turtles and made a book with their favourite sea animals that they have been learning about the last three weeks.

In maths we looked at the thai baht coins and practice counting in tens. Children enjoyed making play dough food to sell and loved playing shop!

Making pizza for the shop

Ailynn in charge of the till!

Kayla having fun playing with the toy sharks

Collage work.

We can order numbers past 20!

Under the Sea continues...

Our free flow activities this week included writing our sight words in sand, ordering our numbers up to 20 and making some fantastic collage artwork of our favourite under the sea creatures.

Apps for iPads

During parent consultations it was brought to my attention than many children in Reception do have access to an iPad. I was asked about possible apps that could help children with their reading skills. Whilst I cannot find any free apps I would recommend either of these two apps from Starfall ($2.99 each).

Please remember however to limit the time your child used an iPad.

Starfall ABC app

Starfall learn to Read app

If you have a computer Starfall can also be accessed here :
Starfall

Best Regards,