This week we left behind the four walls of our old classroom and starting learning in our new classroom with all of our familiar resources.This transition was wonderful and well handled by everyone and we lost no learning time.  We are continuing our work on…

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”946″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Pioneers have been making maps of the village in the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker. They were introduced to maps with a grid…

We begin this week by reading a traditional tale, The Elves and the Shoemaker.An elf arrived in the classroom and he left us a letter to read. He was there to help the little old man who made shoes in the shop. The Pioneers handled artefacts from the past, examining…

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”943″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] As all the excitement of Christmas goes on around us, the Pioneers enjoyed the calm of exploring a variety of tools and materials with…

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”942″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Pioneers continue to investigate materials and have carried out some experiments to find out about their properties.  This…

The Pioneers have been scientists, planning an experiment, making predictions and recording results. After reading a book called,”Who Sank the Boat?”, we needed to find which materials would float or sink when put on water. We made our own version of the story and…

The Pioneers like to make their mark. They can do this in many ways. The classroom is well stocked with a variety of pens, pencils and crayons and the Pioneers know what they like. The most popular addition this week was a set of silky crayons, a bit like lipstick and…

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”939″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We have had a fabulous week of learning in the classroom and outside. The weather is turning colder, wetter and windier but this did…