Days of the Week from around the World

In First Language Group this week we looked at the days of the week in all the languages our children can speak. First, we each made a chart showing the days of the week in English and our language. Then we shared it with all the other children and our classroom teachers.

Colours from around the world

Last Monday we made colour charts in our home languages. We were all very busy. Our finished charts went back to our classes to share with our teachers and friends.

Where the Wild Things Are - 6 Hat Thinking

We read ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ again today. Some of our foundation learners then played a game of Bingo based around this wonderful book. The other children coloured masks for our wild rumpus next week. 

While we were working we did some 6 Hat Thinking around Max’s visit with the ‘Wild Things.’

First we did some yellow hat thinking. What were the good or positive points

• Max was happy he had friends
• He was really happy when he left
• Max was glad when he was made king
• He liked playing with them.
• He got to be their king.
• The ‘Wild Things’ listened to him.
• He got to ride on the ‘Wild Things’ backs. He didn’t even have to walk
• Max liked being at the wild rumpus

Then we used our black thinking hats and looked at bad or the not so good points. 

• The wild things made him cross.
• Max was frightened by them at first.
• Max was sad because he missed his mum.
• He was alone and really hungry.
• Max might get super hungry.
• The ‘Wild Things’ are creepy. I would scream.
• The ‘Wild Things’ might eat you up like a hamburger when you are sleeping.
• They might eat you up in one go.
• They might throw you in the water or break your boat

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'Where the Wild Things Are'

Today we read ‘Where the Wild things Are’ by Maurice Sendak.  Then we put on our ‘Red Thinking Hats’ to talk about how Max was feeling throughout the book. 

Here are some of the feelings the children came up with. 

• When his mum called him ‘Wild Thing,’ Max was mad and grumpy. He was angry at his Mum and said, “I’ll eat you up.”
• Max was sent to his room and this made him angry. He was mad and hungry because he had no supper.
• When Max first saw one of the ‘Wild Things’ he was scared. His face looked terrified.
• The ‘Wild Things’ made Max their king. He was very proud and happy.
• Max felt very happy and excited when he took part in the ‘Wild Rumpus.’
• When the ‘Wild Rumpus’ stopped, Max felt upset. We think he was tired and hungry and missed his home.
• When he got home, we think he was glad to be back. He was happy and relieved to be in his own room. 

 Wow! 
What Great Red Hat Thinking.

Art Attack

This year our art attack was based around water. We found all the words for water in the children's first language and made a big wall display in our school hall.

Rosie's Walk

This week we read the book called 'Rosie's Walk'. It has a lot of prepostions in it. Then we watched a video on teacher tube. It was a funny video about Rosie and the fox. 
Then we played a Bingo game that used all the prepositions from Rosie's Walk. It was from Sparklebox. 

Prepositions

Dino the dinosaur came to school with his beautiful pink bucket to tell us all about prepositions. He is a great teacher.

Dino is on the bucket.

Dino is in front of the bucket.

Dino is behind the bucket.

Dino is next to the bucket.

Dino is in the bucket.

      Where is Dino? 

Lazy Ozzie Green Hat Thinking

Ozzie is a lazy little owl who likes to sit around all day and doesn’t want to learn how to fly. We used some green hat thinking to come up with some ideas to help him to get down from the high beam.

• he could use an umbrella and jump
• he could jump on the hay piles
• he could get a big, big ladder
• he could just slide down the horses back
• could he just jump
• someone could to push him
• he could ask someone to teach him

Living On An Iceberg

We read 'The Night Iceberg' then we put on our black thinking hats to think about what might not be so good about living on an Iceberg.

It would be...

• really really cold
• freezing

We would have...

• no t.v
• no bedroom
• no house
• no swimming - too cold

We would get sick of eating fish, fish, fish all the time.

Prepositions - Bingo's Adventure

By Miracle, Marla and Neelofar