The Lighthouse Keeper's lunch

The story: (click on the image)

Reception Bears walked down to the 
Forte de São João da Foz to understand 
the importance of a lighthouse on the safe 
navigation of ships and sailboats.

After the walk, nothing like a lighthouse keeper's sandwich.

Now, some time for sketching. 

 All done for today,
we are on our way 
back to school. 
We were able 
to name the landmarks
in this shop window.

These were some of our sketches:

by Lourenço




with sound effects 
by Maria




with the brick work
by Constança








an aerial view
by João

Our pictures, in colour, back at school

High in the Sky

Where does the sky start? Where does the sky end?

Who cannot remember folding

 paper planes as a child?

Gruffalo Feast

Planned, made lists and went shopping!

Our fist meal was the OWL PANCAKE for our morning snack

The main feast:
PIZZA MICE FACES

ROASTED FOX

WRAPPED SNAKE

OWL CHICKS

SCRAMBLED SNAKE

To add to all this we added a LOGPILE HOUSE,

POISONOUS WARTS,

PURPLE PRICKLE JUICE and

FOXES' TEARS.

Snack before home time: CHEESY MICE and MOUSE TAILS

CHOCOLATE GRUFFALO and 

GRUFFALO TUSKS with MOUSE DROPPINGS

The party continued the next day with GRUFFALO CRUMBLE

and OWL SCREECHES (lemon juice)

And finally OWL ICE CREAM and GRUFFALO CLAWS

Gruffalo - our class assembly

We all stand together!

We all stand together are the last words to the song, Frog's chorus. The words represent how Reception Bears have bonded together and have made such a fantastic team.

Here you can see Paul McCartney's song at the end of our dress rehearsal.

Last but not Least

Cenas Infantis was the last workshop at
Casa da Música for Reception Bears.

As soon as we walked in the room we were asked to 
stamp, stamp, clap, pause (1234).
Once the children had picked up a good pace, 
a melody could be heard:
The six suits for unaccompanied cello - J.S.Bach.

The children were asked to create sounds, follow visual and aural instructions at the same time as clap, stamp, dance or play simple instruments. The musicians who guided us, helped us through sections of these pieces from the Baroque to Contemporary.
We worked both sides of the brain simultaneously.

This is a small sample of the end of the session:

I live in this beautiful place

Over the past few months the class have been looking at some of the architectural features of Oporto / Portugal.

From sketches to tracing and painting, not forgetting ICT.

To culminate the project, we made a collective collage to celebrate the typical "Calçada Portuguesa."

The children also wrote about what they feel about the place we live in.

Castles and Dragons

This was a time to think about Princes and Princesses.
These are some tasks we worked on:

We wrote our own stories

We drew some castles using Paint

Reception Bears developed Mathematics and Fine Motor skills in weaving these beautiful castles.

A big thank you to João's Mummy for putting the cushions together. 

Please enjoy the culmination of our project:

Viva Vivaldi

• PROGRAMA E SINOPSE
• ARTISTAS

• Programa e Sinopse

  Sofia Nereida Pinto direcção artística e interpretação

  Flávio Aldo e Joana Pereira interpretação

  
  

  Há festa na música de Vivaldi. É a celebrar a vida, correndo pelos tons das quatro estações, que revisitamos a obra do “padre ruivo”. Num concerto trajado à época, voz, violino e outros instrumentos fazem os mais pequenos embalar por um repertório clássico que sabe ser feliz. 
• Preço 10 €
• Domingo, 1 de março · 11:30, 15:00 e 17:00
• € 10 Criança + Adulto · € 7,5 Segundo acompanhante com mais de 5 anos Famílias
• (crianças dos 3 meses aos 5 anos) 
• (Bilhete do segundo acompanhante apenas disponível na bilheteira.)

Ted was on a Craft Mission

After school on Friday we drew the plans for our castle.
As you can see Ted is an applied student.



On Saturday and Sunday we rolled up our sleeves to work.
We used, newspaper, card and glue and with Ted's help we
built a castle fit for princes and princesses.

If you would like to see the final product
please visit Reception Bears.

Working as a team

Bach Be Cue

Drawings by Grace and Suhani

The First Christmas

The First Christmas- reading

2014 Nativity Play

A Little Bird Told Me - the characters:

Mrs Robin and the Dove




















Mary and the Birds

The Shepherd and his Sheep

The Angels

The Camel and the Wise Men