OH SAY CAN YOU SEED?

After ten great days of spring holidays we came back full of energy to start our work with seeds, plants and flowers...

We introduced the topic through "the tiny seed" story.

After reading the story we completed a simple story map:

 

We also sort the things that are good or bad for the tiny seed. First, on the board and then on paper at table time:

 (this is an adaptation of an activity i founf on the net)

HOW PLANTS GROW DRAMATIZATION: in small groups we represented how plants grow following this sequence:

1. The tiny seeds are sleeping underground,
2. Look it is raining now (Kids at the table pretend to be the rain).
3. The tiny seeds wake up and start to grow into plants.
4. Look it is sunny now(kids at the table pretend to be the sun shining).
5. The plants keep growing and we can see their leaves.
6. Look now it is raining and sunny( one table is the rain the other the sun).
7. Our plants are now big and beautiful.

HOW PLANTS GROW POSTER :
To analyze more carefully how we can plant flowers and
other plants we use this poster where we sequence the
stages.

(I don't remember where I got the sequencing cards from)

MORE PHONICS ACTIVITIES

Here are some of the activities we do in class related to sounds recognition and reading.


1. buzz game

Using the sound cards, we place them in a basket. In some of them we draw a bee in the back.  We gather children in a circle, one by one they take a card from the basket, and they hold it up and say the sound. If they get a BUZZ card, everyone gets up, buzzes around like a bee and sit down. As children play they build letter recognition, listening and oral language skills.

As the kids collect sounds we ask them to try to create words with the sounds they have and they do it amazingly well.

2. The snap Game
We write certain sounds on the board and as we do the action the kids have to snap the appropriate sound we can then ask them to say a word  containing that sound.

3. POWER TOWERS

A set of paper cups stored inside of a Pringles box. On the bottom of each cup there is a reading word. Kids are going to make a tower with the cups, before placing a cup they must read the word appropriately.
It can be performed as a group competitive game: Kids in two groups. They must create a tower of six cups each.

3. MATCHINGWORDS TO PICTURES
To practice their understanding of what they are readingwe play these games where we have to match words to pictures

4. complete words on the smartboard

EASTER BUNNY CAME TO CLASS

So we are officially on holidays for ten days hooray!!! and i am back in Gijon with my family and friends. I'm not enjoying very much the rainy days but it's fantastic to be back home.

Yesterday Easter bunny came to class and these are all the things we have been doing.

After recess we came back to class and found all these pawprint in class:

 

                                     so we started looking for our chocolate eggs:

                                   
                                                           and we found them:

                              we wore our bunny ears and colored our faces with our bunny 
                                     noses and whiskers.

                               Then Rose Mary told us a beautiful Easter story:

        Enjoy your holidays everybody and have a fantastic time with your loved ones 

SHOW AND TELL in class

One of my kiddo's daddy has a horse, so we asked him to come to class and talk about horses to the kids.
They asked him lots of questions and he showed us his horse's equipment.