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

Sports Day 2015

These are some of the photographs on the day

The obstacle dressing up race

The papparazi came to report on the event

Set on the finish line!

Like mother like daughter!

Our iron on badges

There was also a very sweet victory here:

"So the last shall be first..."

slow motion - pause just before the end

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:

Chicken Pox

Chicken pox - book to read together

Topsy and Tim get chicken pox - video

Even the famous get chicken pox.

The importance of Physical Activity

In Physical Education we were going round in a circuit:
balancing on a beam, pulling our bodies with arm strength, jumping on the mini trampoline, doing a somersault and climbing over an obstacle. After some rounds, some children where panting and I asked if they were getting tired. Before anyone could say anything about the benefits of exercise, Grace shouts from across the gym,
"Getting tired is fun!"

Photographs were taken by Clara.
This is what we are aiming at with somersaults:

Science Day

On Friday 7th November the Primary Section celebrated
Science Day.
Reception Bears tested how well they could do things with their eyes open compared to having their eyes closed.
Among several tasks we tried:
Assembling blocks

Writing own name

Building a tower of blocks 

(even Mr. Evans gave it a shot)

Jumping

We found out that some things we could do just the same,

others took longer and other tasks were very difficult to complete.

See how we can hop turning around and bouncing and catching a ball.

We also attempted to identify what was on these plates:

Our eyes did not help, but our taste did:

Salt, sugar, iced tea and honey.

Well done Rodrigo and Suhani for identifying all four.

We also investigated how much we rely on our dominant hand.

Pictures on the right are drawn with our right hand.

Pictures on the left are drawn with our left hand.

drawing results

The children did a good job but said it was much harder

with non-dominant hand.