Yesterday at school we watched a video of The First Christmas. Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she was going to have a baby, who would "become a great king". One little boy spoke up loudly, saying "The angel said that the baby would become a Viking!" I replied that the angel had said "a great king". "No!" insisted the boy, "A Viking!"
Today's activities included 'car writing' (on letter-shaped roads, with micro machines), counting playdough sausages, sellotaping sticks onto a cardboard house (for the Second Little Pig to live in, of course - we tried PVA glue but the sticks came off) and decorating biscuits to look (vaguely) like Pudsey the Bear. I was delighted when one boy actually spelt a word with the letter roads - it might not sound like much, but it's the first time I've ever seen any of them spelling a word unaided and I was very proud of him.
Next week we're going to be based in the water tray. We'll be reading Lost and Found (a lovely book about a penguin) and thinking of ways to get our own toy penguin to the, ahem, south pole. Hmm, what are the best boat-building materials to use with four-year-olds?
If they have the patience for it to dry, how about papier mache, and then seal it with PVA glue?
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I'm not sure if they will have the patience - or, to be honest, whether we'll have the time - probably need to have all the boats made and tested in the same day. I'll see what my placement partner thinks though! (At the moment we're working with things like plasticene, tin foil and newspaper).
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