Cooperation with DST Kindergarten

Today, K3H went over to DST kindergarten, and some of DST kindergarten came over to join us and K2A. See an album of photos of what happened in our building here.

Here Come the Aliens!

Mr Gregg read us Here Come the Aliens! in the library today.
The bit we like best is about how the aliens speak:

Here's Mr Gregg reading that favourite page:

Our assembly

In our assembly we explored our How The World Works unit of inquiry, Survival.

We acted out two plays based on these two stories:

The Gigantic Turnip

Seeds, adapted from this Frog and Toad story:

We all introduced ourselves. You can meet us in these two books:



You can see an album of photos here.

Caterpillars, flowers and butterflies

After making the Eric Carle-style papers, we used them to make butterflies, caterpillars and flowers.

See the album here.

Catherine's game

Catherine made a Scratch game with her dad:


Move your cursor; don't let the bug catch you!

Magic e

Even Numbers

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?