Dr Seuss

This week we are going to watch Seussical the Musical so in preparation we having listened to some of his books being read aloud and some cartoons while staing inside on our lunchtimes due to the wet weather we have at the moment.

Here is a lovely cartoon of Horton Hears a Who. It is 25 minutes long so a nice length for lunchtime, it has some lovely songs in it.




Here is Cat in the Hat read by Justin Bieber




Yertle the Turtle

Two vowels

Today we are learning about the sound ai. We are also learning about what happens when 2 vowels meet in a word. Here is a lovely song we listened to, the words of this song are at the end of the post.



We also listened to a song on starfall and there was a game at the end, we will play the game later today.

When Two Vowels Go Walking

When two vowels go walking
The first one does the talking
In "boat" you hear the "o" and not the "a"

In "meat" you hear the "e"
The "a" sits quietly
The second vowel you see but you don't say

But...
Shh!

Just the two of us together
In "train" and "pail" and "rain"
The "a" speaks up; the "i" does not
But...
Shh! Let me explain

When two vowels go walking
The first one does the talking
In "brain" you hear the "a" but not the "i"

In "soap" the "o" is clear
The "a" you never hear
In "say" you say the "a" and not the "y"

But...
Shh! Isn't it neat?
But...
Shh! It can't be beat!
But...
Shh! It's such a dream!

Don't mean to boast
But here's a toast
We're quite a team!

When two vowels go walking
The first one does the talking
I'm sorry, number two, it's such a shame

Although it gives you pain
The rule is very plain
When two vowels walk
The first one says its name!

But...
Shh!

Yes, when two vowels walk
The first one says its name!

The Number One

We listened to Sian's story of the number one.

Using the back of our finger we dragged the snail down to make the number 1.

We then played a counting game to find the flower pot that has only 1 flower in it.

The Bubble Game. We had to find the bubble with the number one in them, the other bubbles had straight lines, curvy lines in them to try and catch us out.

Catch the Snails.

This was the last game we played. The snails were sliding around trying to run away from us, but we caught them all. We only caught snails with a number on their back.

The we went to more.starfall.com and played the number one video.

Sorting

These pictures should have been posted back in September :-)

Scroll down to find a link to an online sorting game.

Colour Sorting Game

2-D Shapes

We are learning about shapes.
We learnt about squares, triangles, circles and rectangles. We can count the sides of a shape to find out what it is. We watched these videos. We hope you like them.








We went hunting for shapes in this game

Bouncing Snowmen

Hoping to post some of the art work that we made just before the holidays, I like this one and will probably do it again. It was great for fine motor skills and cutting skills and of course following directions! A few snowmen had bits of their body cut off but that's to be expected, I always have a few spares when attempting these type of activities.

I have attached the template and instructions for the snowman below. 

Bouncing Snowman -

The Grinch

Another fantastic unit of work, which I don't think I'll get around to doing this year as we are aiming to do the Polar Express but some of you may find it helpful. This is from another great blog that I follow Mrs Jump's Class which has lots of lovely ideas for Junior Classes.

Polar Express

A fantastic unit on The Polar Express book from April Larremore, make sure to visit her blog for other great units which she so generously shares. I look forward to doing this one with my class before Christmas (if we can fit it around the Wriggly Nativity!)


The Polar Express Unit

Owl Babies

Last week we read the story Owl Babies and used one of Patty's wonderful art ideas in Deep Space Sparkle art lessons site. Hopefully I will get to add a picture of some of the finished products when I get back into school. Snowed in here at the moment! 


The picture above was our inspiration and we had great fun tearing and sticking the paper to make fluffly owlets.