5 - 11 December 2022 (week 49)

 Our theme for article of the day is landmarks of Latin America. Our first stop was to look up where Latin America is! We read about the Atacama Desert, and about Machu Picchu, the Uyuni salt flat of Bolivia, and the Andes mountains.

We practiced some more adding and subtracting within 20 and played catch with a beanbag while trying to guess a number and giving clues of higher or lower. If we dropped the beanbag we had to subtract the number of throws already done from the total to see how many throws we had left. We threw 20 blocks at a target and wrote fact families for the number in or out totalling 20. We rolled two twenty sided dice and found the difference between the numbers, wrote a number sentence for each one and did that many star jumps! We did more activities from the White Rose maths resources.

We made some Christmas cards and Christmas magnets to send to people.

We read another Spanish story. This one was about hobbies, we looked up some words, answered the quiz and sorted the pictures into order.

At communigrow Vinnie helped to make some bird food tree decorations, and made a little Christmas wreath with willow twigs and leaves.

We read some books together.

We read about lichens and looked at some pictures of them.

We read about North America which led to some conversations about indigenous people and changes the Europeans made when they moved there. We looked at some North American animals such as bears and axolotls and Vinnie drew a Grizzy and the Lemmings themed picture. We looked at Mayan ruins in Guatamala. Then we baked corn bread muffins.

Vinnie wrote another story about his toys!

We talked about static electricity and what happens. We talked a bit about atoms and the protons and electrons being positive and negative.

We started our next experiment with the letterbox lab, we prepared some cress seeds on wet kitchen roll. We shall be putting one dish in the dark and one in the light and seeing what happens.

We made another project in Scratch that Vin found in the book from the library. It was a football type game.

We read a bit more about music from the School of Music book.

Books from the library:

		Nanette's baguette Willems, Mo2017 Books	15 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 2		Castles and fortresses around the world Snedden, Robert2021 Books	15 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 3		The last kids on Earth and the forbidden fortress Brallier, Max2022 Books	20 Dec 2022	2 reserves
Select record 4		A mouse called Julian Todd-Stanton, Joe2019 Books	20 Dec 2022
Select record 5		The bippolo seed and other lost stories Seuss, Dr2011 Books	20 Dec 2022
Select record 6		25 Scratch 3 games for kids : a playful guide to coding Wainewright, Max2019 Books	20 Dec 2022
Select record 7		The last kids on Earth and the doomsday race Brallier, Max2021 Books	20 Dec 2022	2 reserves
Select record 8		We're going to find the monster! Blackman, Malorie2021 Books	20 Dec 2022
Select record 9		The penultimate peril Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 10		The slippery slope Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 11		Quint and Dirk's hero quest Brallier, Max2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	1 reserve
Select record 12		The impossible crime Barnett, Mac2021 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 13		The end Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 14		The grim grotto Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 15		When we walked on the moon Long, David, 1961-2019 Books	29 Dec 2022
Select record 16		The Marvels Selznick, Brian2015 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 17		The carnivorous carnival Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 18		Amelia Fang and the half-moon holiday Anderson, Laura Ellen2019 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 19		The hostile hospital Snicket, LemonyUUUU Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 20		The Ministry of Unladylike Activity Stevens, Robin, 1988-2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time1 reserve
Select record 21		The missing magic Jones, Gareth P.2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time1 reserve
Select record 22		The Carnival of the Clocks Sharratt, Nick2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 23		Come over to my house Hull, Eliza2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 24		When Ice Cream had a meltdown Robinson, Michelle (Michelle Jane), 1977-2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 25		Abracazebra Docherty, Helen2015 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 26		Pizazz vs everyone : it's not easy being super Henn, Sophy2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time1 reserve
Select record 27		The Arctic Railway assassin Leonard, M. G. (Maya Gabrielle)2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 28		The BFG Dahl, Roald2016 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 29		The power of the wildening Smart, Jamie2022 Books	29 Dec 2022	Renewed 1 time1 reserve