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.)

Bach Be Cue

Drawings by Grace and Suhani

Happy New 2015

With new numbers for the new year,
we will be looking at numbers all around us.
We hope you will join us on our number adventure.

The First Christmas

The First Christmas- reading

The Red Fish Encyclopedia

 This is a good excuse to do some research

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

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.

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