Reception Bears 2014

Monday, 17 November 2014

Ted in my bed

Ted came to spend the weekend.
He stayed overnight.

In the morning we had breakfast together.

We played together inside
because it was raining outside.

Saturday, 15 November 2014

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

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.

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

When I grow up I want to be...

We were learning how to read and spell:
me
he
she
we
be
We thought of sentences using those words.
I said, "When Grace grows up she wants to be a doctor."
Suhani quickly added, "and I want to be a princess."
I winked and said, "You already are a princess!"

Monday, 10 November 2014

Ted's non-adventure

What happened was this:
The temperature has dropped and Ted said it was time for his annual hibernation.
He had a huge pre-hibernation meal consisting of a whole salmon, a hot dog (weird!), cheddar cheese, a pineapple, an eggplant and some fresh water.

He got his teddy, Grace tucked him in and
he started a good old hibernation.

Ted slept, and slept and slept.

A sweet 2 min video about a hibernating bear.

Winnie the Witch

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

Winnie's house

Vocabulary

A song

Friday, 7 November 2014

The 5 year olds club

Reception Bears are now all 5!
Welcome to the club. Happy Birthday!

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Use of Glue

On the way to the bathroom with glue on his hands, Rodrigo complained to D. Emília that I am always telling the children to use glue and that one day his fingers might remain stuck together. He said that it was dangerous!

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Giggles

Lourenço and Zé Pedro were giggling while they were drawing.
I looked over and they giggled some more.
Giggles continue.
I walk over.
The boys look up with broad smiles.
"Estávamos a falar em inglês!"
More giggles...

This was funny, but very true. The children are starting to talk
spontaneously among themselves in English. Well done!

Why is music important?

Why should children be exposed to learning a musical instrument even if they do not become musicians?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R0JKCYZ8hng

Thursday, 30 October 2014

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

Thursday, 23 October 2014

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