We are getting ready for Halloween in the Infant Classroom! For playtime, our classroom has become a spooky Potions Lab! The art table are creating spiderwebs with oil pastels and watercolour paint, there is a Halloween matching game at another table, the playdough table are creating different ingredients for the potion in the cauldron, and the messiest learning of all is taking part at the drama table where we are pretending to be witches and wizards creating potions!
Last week was Maths Week, so we began learning about capacity using our potions lab. It's a fun way to develop vocabulary such as full, nearly full, empty, holds more, holds less, holds as much as...We are also doing some whole-class work on estimating how many jugfuls of potion will fill a certain container and ordering containers of potion in order of capacity!
The Potion Lab is also great for oral language development, as the children dictate their potion ingredients and method for me to write down, sharing, motor skills, and literacy! It's also just fun to make a big mess! Have a look at our spooky room:
Happy Halloween to the Juniors and Seniors! Well done on your fantastic costumes today! :)
Well done especially to Poppy and David who won the Parent's Association Best Dressed prizes:
