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

Sweet and Radical

This Saturday was "sweet day."

Ted made an orange cake.

When Ted tasted it,

the bear shouted, "Yumiiiii!"

On Sunday it was "sports day."

We went on a bike tour and Ted went RADICAL!

Now you are 5!

Congratulations! Now you are 5!

"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.

Happy Birthday!

I am 5 today!

Congratulations!

Tram Trip

After school on Friday, Ted went on a tram trip.
Here you can see him waiting for the tram and then stopping at Ribeira.

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Ready to go to the park!
Ted liked watching the sun set after a fun day out.

Study on praising children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWv1VdDeoRY&feature=youtu.be

Building lego constructions

This weekend Ted had a great time 
building lego with me!


















At school, **** wrote about his
weekend independently. Well done!

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.