Fantastic End of First Half-term!

Wow! The weeks have gone by really fast and it is now the end of our first half-term! The children are now more settled and are even beginning to make friends. They are getting used to the classroom routines and to the activities that we do in class. We hope that after the break, they will all be very excited again to see their friends and explore more!

This week, F1 focused on dinosaurs. We had lots and lots of exciting activities in the Workshop and Investigation Areas! We also played some games in the Interactive Whiteboard and looked at fiction and non-fiction books about dinosaurs!

Here are some of the great activities we had this week. Enjoy!  

              

Last week, we made dinosaur eggs using balloons and plaster of paris. Over the weekend, they all dried up and hardened just like the real dinosaur eggs. Last Monday, the children had fun painting them with green and brown paints. They looked amazing!

              

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Here, the children made a wonderful backdrop for our new Dinosaur display! They made dinosaur footprints with Long-necked and T- rex dinosaurs!

              

A fantastic IWB game! The children had a go at designing and colouring their own dinosaurs on the IWB by clicking colour, paint or fill icons! 

          

             

Our very own F1 Paleontologist! We prepared frozen dinosaurs with leaves and sand for the children to explore and investigate. They all looked very carefully at first then they all got hammers, rolling pins, cutters and more and started cracking the ice to get the dinosaurs! Some were able to get the dinosaurs and some waited for the ice to melt! What clever little children! 

               

Ms Precious and the children had a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Museum and they found lots of dinosaur fossils! Linh Lan and Emily were very sad to know that the dinosaurs are now extinct and they even asked Ms Tam some questions about them. All the children was given a chance to use the wand and see the museum on their own. 

               

To cap our dinosaur theme, we made dinosaur fossils ourselfves! We asked the children to form the body, legs and tail of their dinosaurs using different sizes of cotton buds. They all had fun with this activity! Well done F1!

Some Reminders:

21st -25th October - School will be closed for our half-term break.

28th October - School re-opens.

Please bring your child's swimming kit every Tuesday and Thursday. Can we also ask you to make sure that your child's swimsuit and towel are properly labelled.

Thank you very much!

Have a great half-term break!

Kind Regards,

Ms Crislet, Ms Precious and the F1 Team