Today we read a story called ‘Where’s Julius’ by John Birmingham. In this story a little boy called Julius is always too busy to come and eat meals with the family because he is off exploring in imagined places including ‘riding camels in Egypt’, ‘cooling hippos in Central Africa’, ‘watching the sun rise in Tibet’, and ‘throwing snowballs with wolves in Russia’. We used our atlases to find all these places and put them on our world map of the continents.
We then each got a different map, depending on what continent our Flat Stanley is going to, and highlighted the country where our Flat Stanley is going. We looked at the names of some of the other countries on our continent maps and talked about countries we had heard of before and ones which were new to us. Ms Gain also taught us how to play ‘Around the World’ with geography questions. Some of us are becoming real geography experts!
We now all have our own maps of the world, which we have coloured and labeled with the names of the continents and the major oceans. We are using these as part of our Flat Stanley project and mapping work. Next week we are going to use our maps to play geography bingo.
Music
Today we learnt some rhymes and tapped the rhythms on our fingers and danced them with our feet. We then tried out some of the rhythms we had tapped on our fingers using percussion instruments in pairs. We also tried clapping and playing rhythms of the names of some fruit and vegetables. We also learnt a song called ‘Good Day to You’ and imagined singing the song to ourselves in the mirror.
Singing to ourselves in our mirrors.
Mapping
Using percussion instruments
In the afternoon we went to the hall to watch a stage show called 'Jungle Bungle'. Some of us got to go up on stage and perform and we all got to join in with some of the songs in the show that we have been learning in class.
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