We will have our last run through of our Sports Day activities today. The children will complete all six races. They will need their PE kits in school and will be changing.

We will complete a footballer warm up before starting our races. At the end we will cool down by exploring giant writing of names on the playground - in team colours.

 We will begin today by exploring mark making on whiteboards. Adults will remind the children of the whiteboard rules then adults will model recording patterns and then letter shapes, the children will be asked to imitate this each time, using an appropriate pen grip and working hard on pen control. We will then work together to identify all the sounds in the word ‘fan’ before recording this. Then we will explain that the  children are going to use their mark making skills to decorate paper to create a fan. Fiadh and Brodie both suggested that we could use a paper fan to keep us cool. Each child will select a piece of coloured paper and use letter shapes or handwriting patterns to decorate it. Then we will model how to fold it to create the fan. Adults will use a glue gun to fix the fan to lolly sticks. The children will be able to use their fans during the week.

Lily, Marsaili Asa, Jamie all made suggestions about making ice lollies to keep us cool. Today we are going to make healthy ice lollies to share at snack time tomorrow. Before we begin we will talk through some of the children’ suggestions. Lily and Marsaili suggested making them out of paper and putting them in the freezer (they will be able to design lollies when ‘playing and exploring), Asa suggested putting the fruit in the oven to make a lolly. We will show the children the whole watermelon before cutting it in half. The children will need to scoop out the flesh using a spoon. Then they will need to use a cocktail stick to carefully flick out the seeds, although you can eat these we are not going to today. Finally they will need to chop up the seedless pulp. Throughout we will remind the children of safe use of tools and good hygiene practices. The fruit will then go into a blender before the children help us to use a funnel to fill ice pop cases. Ellie reminded us that we would need “to eat it really quick or it melts”. Jamie told us that we would need a bowl for drips and Maia D said we would need to sit at a table with chairs when eating them!

Jamie suggested that we could make a big sky using magnet tiles and then clouds made out of other thongs! Marsaili suggested that we could add a rainbow for when it was rainy and sunny. Ernie suggested making clouds out of playdough and attach them  - he said we could make ‘ducky clouds’. So - today we are going to work together to create a giant sky picture. The children will need to share their ideas and gather items in the classroom that are each colour of the rainbow so that we can make a giant rainbow on the floor. Then they will need blue materials, including magnet tiles, to go around it as the sky. The next challenge will be white things, including play dough to create the clouds. We will all work together to create the overall effect and the children will need to share ideas and listen to others as they work (they began to do this last week when they were using blocks to create special buildings).

Friday

Fiadh suggested that we need shade, like a parachute, to keep us cool. Today the children will be set a challenge to build a complex construction to provide shade for their mini me figures. They can work on their own or with a partner to do this. We will provide a variety of construction materials, blocks and interlocking bricks. As they work adults will talk with them about the shapes (using 2D and 3D shape names: square, rectangle, circle, triangle, cube, cuboid,pyramid, cone, sphere) they are using and how their properties suit the purpose. We will provide shapes that combine to make other shapes, such as pattern blocks and interlocking shapes. We will discuss the different designs that children make and pause and encourage their peers to admire and comment on each other’s structure.