What a great month we have had in Room 5! Thank you to all the parents and children who brought in lovely toys and animals for the pet shop play. They are really enthusiastic about sharing their toys with their peers. Sometimes they are happy to leave them in the pet shop over night but sometimes they want to bring them home again. That's absolutely fine. They can bring the toys in and out as they please. Below is a few photos of the new stations that are well underway. We have also done some really good reports and recounts in our Aistear copies this week. The children are now labelling their pictures with words and trying to write simple sentences. Their oral sentence structure and vocabulary is coming on in leaps and bounds!
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Big Thank You to our wonderful Ann-Maire who made us this fantastic aquarium for our pet shop. Super creative and the children were delighted to have their very own Nemo! (or as one of the children corrected me... it's a Clown Fish!)
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The Children are delighted to have their water station back. They have been so imaginative and you will see here how they gathered resources from around the room and created their own animal bath/shower contraption. Great team work going on too!
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Water Play from Ms Murray on Vimeo. |
We have been practicing our questioning skills... I am trying to encourage the children to ask questions using language like who, what, where, when, why (The 5 W's). The video below was a quick Q&A session where they explored the idea of questioning. Next week we will look back at this video in class and discuss how we could improve our language and make our questions and answers even more interesting... check back next week to see how we get on.
Goldilocks and 3 bears Q&A from Ms Murray on Vimeo.
We did lots of art this week to set up our new stations. We also were lucky to have a visitor Evan to help us build our new 'People Who Help Us' town. It's not finished but it's looking pretty cool so far!
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Our Town play! from Ms Murray on Vimeo.
We had been working on our spring garden (making the rainbow below) When Maisy came up with the idea to call it a Relaxation Garden! I absolutely loved this idea, I just thought it was so lovely that that word 'relaxation' came to mind when she sat in that area!
I am really delighted with how quickly the children's handwriting has come on. They are working so hard and they really take pride in their achievements. We save our very best writing for our 'Good Writing' copies. I have told the children that they can take them home on Monday to show you their progress, they are really excited to share their hard work with you and are looking forward to your praise! Please make sure the copies go straight back into the bags though.
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Great homework this week. The children knew their Little Bo Peep Rhyme very well, so we recorded it for the blog. Enjoy watching the super performers below!
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Little Bo Peep from Ms Murray on Vimeo.
Here is a sneek peek preview for my blog readers of a new area I made for the children after they went home today. I know they'll love this one for their DEAR time!
That's it for this week. Enjoy the spring weather!
Regards,
Ms Murray
Regards,
Ms Murray
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