Class One have had another busy day today. This morning, we spent time exploring how to use positional language. The children carried out activities involving using language such as next to, behind, above, under. Some children played a game with Miss Bellis where they had to say where they thought the puppet was. At first he was hiding under a box.
After break, we carried out lots of Letters and Sounds activities. Some children were recalling sounds from last week and looking at how to use a phoneme frame correctly. Children in Year 1 were looking at the alternative ‘i’ sound and how the ‘i’ sound differs in words such as ‘kite’ and ‘sink’.
This afternoon we had a great time learning about the Norther Lights, or Aurora Borealis. The children were amazed when they watched a video about the fantastic light shows that can be seen from places such as Lapland.
They watched a video and then thought about which colours they could see in the sky when the northern lights were taking place. The children then looked at landscape silhouettes and then created their own silhouette of trees and mountains using black paper. They then all used coloured chalks to create a scene of Aurora Borealis on black card. The silhouettes were then stuck on top of the card to create the effect of a scene from Lapland. These have been put up already in our role play area to create a backdrop of Aurora Borealis!
Tomorrow we will be looking at the location of the polar regions and finding out a little bit more about the areas by looking at our collection of non-fiction books.
Here are the links to the video watched today and the images of Aurora Borealis. I am sure your children would love to watch them again!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/znx76sg
northern lights presentation
