This week in Literacy, we have done alot of work inspired by the book Handa’s Surprise. There have been activities such as matching games (words to pictures) and the children have been very successful in identifying key letter sounds within the names of their favourite animals and fruit.
In our Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy (PSRN) sessions this week the children have been exploring the concept of money. Our activities have included working out the correct amount of change required when buying a specific item with specific coins. In addition, the younger Hedgehogs have been matching coins with items that cost that exact amount. We have used ICT to support these activities, with the children playing money games on our interactive whiteboard.
Science this week has included investigations into static electricity. Hedgehogs have found this great fun, using balloons to generate the static electricity and observing the effects on each other!
For our Religious Education, and Knowledge and Understanding of the World, we have looked at why the Torah is special to the Jewish People. In the Geography session, we have continued to learn about Christopher Columbus, and have been finding out about all the places he visited.
The illustrator, David Armitage, was the subject of our History session this week. His beautiful line and wash drawings have been used in the Lighthouse Keeper stories, amongst others. We discussed how an illustrator approaches his work, in reading and interpreting the author’s word. Also, in our Art and Design sessions, the children did some lovely observational drawings of fruit, again inspired by Handa’s Surprise.
Throughout this week, our older Hedgehogs have also had to contend with mid-year tests to ascertain their progress. They have coped superbly with the “test” conditions, and have done their very best in each of the Reading, Numeracy, Spelling and Writing tasks. What a busy week!
