Pyjama Day in Reception Bears

Our aim was to get a good day's sleep.      First of all we had a bedtime snack:       school made jam tarts,                           cottage biscuit                                               and milk.

Before going to bed we all brushed our teeth.

We had a bed time story.

We counted sheep.

We lay down in bed.

But we could not sleep - we had

too much energy so we rolled out of bed.

Jumped on the bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmclP1Qh09A

Designed a nightie or a pair of pyjamas in ICT

Ate bananas in pyjamas

                                                         








YUM!

One would have thought that going to sleep
 would be an easy thing to do...

Reception Bears were able to raise over
100 Euros to sponsor fostering children
who do not have a family.
Thank you Bears!

Magic carpet

Today Prep and Reception classes visited the
"Magic Carpet" factory at Casa da Música.

The factory workers were making, painting, hanging, and folding magic carpets.
One particular carpet did not want to fly.
As we listened to music from around the world we saw one of the factory workers climb up to the sky to get some magic dust.
We saw some elegant magic tricks performed to the sound of oriental music but the carpet still would not fly.
The carpet was tired of being trodden on, it wanted to dance instead to the sound of a Tango.
Dance lead the Magic Carpet all the way to Hollywood.

Miniature Transport Museum

Fundação Cupertino de Miranda
The photographs speak for themselves:

 To view our drawings please come to our class.

Visit Fundação Cupertino de Miranda to view collection, open on week days.

Find out more here

Winnie the Witch

A story we enjoyed and would like to share with you.

Winnie's house

Vocabulary

A song

The Creation of the World

This was the focal point of our Topic work
in the first half term. It was a great opportunity to learn about 
the wonderful world we live in.
Among other activities these were some of the highlights:

Let there be Light!  -   Exploring light and dark.

God separated the waters above and below an expanse.                               This is how we made the water under the heavens. We made sure the strips of paper were aligned to one side on the paper. Once it was dry we printed different circular shapes to make the foam and bubbles across the top.

On Day 3 God made the dry land appear and ordered that grass and trees should grow. We found a fun way to make trees.

For the 4th day we used milk to make
some stars for our Milky Way.

We made some moons from cheese, inspired by Wallace and Gromit's Grand Day Out. We thought it was very funny to think that the moon could be made of Cheddar, Stilton or....  Queijo da Serra!

Day 5 - We had a closer look at fish in the primary kitchen.

Rodrigo was inspired by all that talk on fish

and drew this picture.

We explored the BIRD page at www.poissonrouge.com

The school library had lots of books on mammals. 
We took some books on loan so we could find out more about mammals at home.
Mr Evans came to visit our class. He said, "Good morning children."
We said, "Good morning Mr. Evans, you are a mammal! 
We are all mammals!"

These are our drawings of ourselves in our wonderful world.

Please view the video below and leave a comment about your favourite section.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUbnlxKQPw

Happy Divali

Today we learnt a little more about the festival of lights.

View this video to learn about Divali.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp59n0So-XE

Visit our classroom soon so you can see our Rangoli patterns.
We learnt a little dance. You can view our efforts here:
First the teachers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiL7oMpQ4QM
Then us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZQGgluCbw

Dominguez Alvarez

Fundação Cupertino de Miranda opened its doors to
Reception Children and showed us 150 paintings by 
Dominguez Alvarez - an artist who followed his dream!

Alvarez was a painter from Porto who painted what he saw from his attic window and while walking around Porto.
He painted many landscapes with castles, bridges, churches and villages.

Alvarez also painted people:
- Sad people
- People struggling to walk up the hill
- People looking at the sky
- People hump backed
- People in hats
- People running from the rain
- People with weird faces
- Children


http://www.facm.pt/facm/facm/pt/agenda-cultural/Exposicao-de-pintura-de-Dominguez-Alvarez

"Porque os animais não conduzem?"

Today we went to Casa da Música for a musical
workshop.

We learnt about road safety through song,
rhythm and movement.

International Music Day

Today we made some colourful ocean drums.
We explored the different sounds we could make with them.
Do you think you could make one too?

This was a great opportunity to develop listening skills.
Every time the sound changed, the Globe changed direction.
The children had to listen carefully to the sound changes,
especially when instruments were being played slowly and
without pauses.

This is a bear!

All the bears have now finished their card bear in a forest of painted trees.
They look so good on our wall.
You will be able to see them tomorrow when you come to the information
evening at 18.00.

This is Suhani's bear walking through the trees.

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock 1912-1945, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. 

Reception Bears explored some of Jackson Pollock's techniques.

They used words such as: drip, pour, splash, action painting, squeeze....

as well as revising the names of colours.

Jackson Pollock considered the whole canvas important.

The children filled the whole screen with different colours at:

www.jacksonpollock.org (scroll down to get full page)