The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We're looking at the needs of plants and animals for our new unit of inquiry, Survival, and we've been reading the books of Eric Carle this week, as his focus is on animals, big and small.

We created papers in the style of Eric Carle.

Then we used these to create caterpillars and butterflies:

You can see an album of pictures of the work here.

Here's an animation of the story:

Here's Eric Carle reading his book:

Daniel's Cuisenaire rod exploration at home

We use Cuisenaire rods lots in K3 as you know. It may be something you'd like to play with at home; they're available via for instance amazon, and we can recommend these wooden ones, made in Spain, as good value. And/or you may like your child to try one of the online Cuisenaire environments that we use at school. If you make anything, do take a photo or screengrab, and send it to us!

Daniel's got his own set and he's been busy creating equal-length trains, and writing equations to describe them:

 

For Jacob's trains

for Edouard's trains

for Marcos' trains

Tjan

Tjan's trains have just been added to the blog. What could you write for this?

Gabriel

How to write this?

Alessandro

How to write these three?

Elias

This is a big one:

Annaelle

Can you write these?

Zarah

Can you make out the rods in this fuzzy photo?

Effie

Effie made this:

Isobel

Can you write this?

Carlos

How would you write this?

Jorge

How would you write this?

Blake

Here's what Blake made for us:

Ava

The photo of Ava's trains is fuzzy. Can you still see what they are?

Wilbur

Wilbur made these pairs of trains for us:

Irene

Irene has made four pairs of trains, all the same length:

Arav

Arav has made four pairs of trains for us:

Niels

Niels made these equal-length trains:

Jacob

Jacob made this pair of trains:

Edouard

This is Edouard's train:

Cicely and Sofia

 Cicely and Sofia made very similar pairs of trains. How would you write them?

Anansi and the Tug of War... and other stories

James

James has made a sandwich for you:

Marcos

This is Marcos' sandwich for you:

Freddie

Freddie's made a sandwich for us:

Nikki

Nikki made this for us:

A team creation

 A team made one that's a bit of a challenge to write about!

Bianca

Bianca has made a simple one for us!

Ariadna

This is from Ariadna:

Marcos

Marcos made these ones for you:

Blanca

What would you write for these trains?

Ollie

Are these two trains really equal? What could we write?

James

Ana

Ana wanted to give you four pairs of trains to look at: