11 October 2024

Seals
 
This week at Beach School, in Seal Class, we started by reinforcing our French Numbers up to 11 before practising multiples of 3 and telling the time on an analogue clock. We then practised some throwing and catching skills, as Volleyball was a bit windy this week. We practised ensuring control when throwing the ball and increased the distance, the more effective catching we managed. We then recapped our Reading For Pleasure book - The Chronicles of Narnia, before re-enacting the part where Mr Tumnus met Lucy. The children all put a lot of effort into showing their comprehension of the story through their expression of the characters. We then enjoyed our snack whilst building different things in the sand.
Puffins
After Worship by the Waves, we got our journals and pencils out and wrote some weather poems, thinking about appropriate adjectives to describe a variety of weather-related nouns.  After that we played 'follow my leader' and went to look at the burn going down to the sea.  We noticed how fast-running it was and thought about why that might be.  We were very impressed at how it had carved out a deep cut through the sand making a cliff edge on the other side.
Next we collected some stones and did some maths, making groups of different numbers and sharing fairly.  We predicted how many would be in each group, and discussed how we knew that.  We noticed that an even number of stones meant that we could share it fairly into groups of 2 and into 2 groups. 
After snack we measured our sun shadow stick.  It was exactly 3 whiteboards long - 5 more centimeters than last week; and over a whole whiteboard longer than when we first measured it in September.  We talked about why we use the same stick, and have a marker to push it into the sand, and made the link to some fair testing that we were doing in the classroom earlier in the week.  
In science we were looking at parts of the eye.  We looked at each other's eyes and described what we could see.  We then talked about the iris and the pupil.  We looked at the sparkly sea, and noticed that our pupils were really small, and then we covered our eyes for 30 seconds before looking at each other's eyes again, and noticed that they had dilated.  We talked about eye colour, and that the colour our parents eyes are will decide what our eye colour might be.  
After science we had some time to work together on the sand - we are very in to building castles and other buildings, and linking them up with walls and roads at the moment.