We've been learning about Primary and Secondary colours. We now know that the Primary colours are red, blue and yellow and these can be mixed to make the Secondary colours orange (red and yellow), green (blue and yellow) and purple (blue and red). We mixed paint on our colourful caterpillars, which can be seen in the display outside room 14, along with some lovely collage butterflies!
We've also been learning about 2D shape this week. We learned some poems to help us remember the shapes:
Tommy Triangle is the name for me,
Count my sides: 1, 2, 3!

Sammy Square is my name,
I have 4 sides, they're all the same!
 

I'm Reggie Rectangle, I am a good sport.
I have 4 sides, 2 long and 2 short!












I'm Cindy Circle,
My side bends,
It's one long curve that never ends!

We played shape bingo, 'Spin a picture' and made 2D shape pictures. We also made shapes with playdough:

Check back to see our shape pictures...

Room 14 are all back from the mid-term break, refreshed and ready for more learning! We're now learning about The Senses and have done experiments on 'hearing', 'touch' and 'taste'. We closed our eyes and tried to identify objects from how they felt (smooth, rough, furry, prickly, hard, soft), we listened to some everyday sounds and matched them to pictures and we tasted some sweet, sour, salty, crunchy and mushy food!! Did you know that if you hold your nose when eating something, you cannot taste it properly? We all noticed the difference when we let go of our noses and suddenly could taste the food in our mouth!
We've also been working on the theme of 'The Optician' at Aistear time: we have a role play area, where we've been having our eyes tested and buying new glasses. Some children made eye charts in the writing area and play dough glasses in the motor-skills area. Have a look at our photos to see us at work:

Karolina helps Alan pick some new sunglasses at the Optician's.

Beatrise and Karolina try on some glasses!

"What do you think of my cool playdough glasses?" says Byron!

Katelyn's heart-shaped playdough glasses.

Check back soon to see what else we're up to and to spot some familiar faces...