This Week the Swans have continued enjoying our Transport Topic!
We have focused on flying transport and in Language for Thinking we learnt about the first people to fly, first in hot air balloons and then aeroplanes made from wood! We thought these people must have been very brave! Then we saw the progression to bigger, faster and better aeroplanes, moving on to aeroplanes that take us on holidays and rockets that can go into space!
In Discovery Time we had the small world airport and planes out in the tuff tray. The children really enjoyed pretending they were flying away on holiday!
On the Maths Table we used the transport counters and the tens frames to help us write our ‘First, Then and Now’ number stories and sentences.
On the Writing Table the children used their fantastic phonic skills to write sentences about different modes of transport. They even remembered to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops at the end of their sentences. Well done Swans!
On another table the children had to read the captions and match it to the corresponding picture. We also had a cut and stick activity where the children needed to cut and stick the modes of transport and decide if they were from the past or the present and then colour them in carefully!
The Swans really enjoyed playing the transport matching game, taking it in turns and showing amazing sharing skills!
On the Workshop Table the children used the gummed paper and scissors to make amazing modes of transport. They used scissors carefully and wrote a sentence underneath to explain what they had made.
In ‘Talk for Writing’ this week we have focused on the book ‘ Martha Maps it Out’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. The Swans are learning all about making maps and this book really helped the children. The children drew a picture of their favourite place and wrote a sentence about it.
As you can see the Swans have been really busy this week and worked really hard!
Well done Swans!