FREDDIE THE FROG NEEDS OUR HELP!
Freddie the frog left a message for Little Conkers to come to find him - he was in one of the rooms and was feeling lonely and asked them to come quickly - he had sent them a map to follow.
The children wanted to set off quickly to find Freddie. "He will be sad if he is on his own" said one child. The children were all confident they could follow the map!
So we set off down the corridor.
There were lots of opportunities to use positional words such as left, right, turn, opposite, across.
The children worked together well as a group, and finally we found Freddie in the staff room. There was a big cheer!
When we returned to the classroom some of the children wanted to make their own maps.
They then went in search of frogs, wolves and each other following the paths on their great maps!
SENDING THE BEEBOTS ON JOURNEYS
The children decided where they wanted Beebot to go, and we thought about what direction and how many times to press the direction button.
Trying to get Beebot to travel on the map to the staff room to rescue Freddie the frog was quite a challenge as there were lots of turns and different directions to think about, but it was pleasing to see children taking time and persevering.
There were some very excited cheers when they managed it!
Children continued to be interested in maps through the week. Bridges and train tracks were drawn and built.
We looked at our school on google maps and then zoomed out, pretending we were going up in an aeroplane going higher and higher away from the school until we were looking at the whole world! The comments and questions from this were brilliant... "I can see snow!...look! the ocean...there are a lot of green fields round us... it looks very small when you are up high...what is that yellow bit? Is it sand?
A range of maps were explored very closely!!
WORLD BOOK DAY
On Thursday we dressed up as characters from some of our favourite books, and listened to lots of stories during the day - we are so privileged to have so many wonderful books!
