30 November 2018

Good afternoon!!! Today in Reception we had a special visit from the Make and Play group! They specialise in robotic laboratories for kids!! Our helper Anna told us we would be making a Robot Santa Claus who spins a gift around!

First she explained to us what we would need to make it and the different steps we would take. 

Then she wrote down all our names on name tags to help her remember us! 

She showed us the first two pieces we would need to make the body of our Santa! 

We each got to choose two plastic containers!

Then we had to decide which would go on the bottom and which one would go on the top!

Then we had to cover both pieces in red tissue paper since Santa wears a read suit!

Once our pieces were covered, Anna explained how we could decorate our Santas how we wanted too and that she, Miss Paola and Miss Lindsay would help us glue them together with the hot glue gun.

We picked out materials from all different types of things.

There were buttons, bottle caps, fabric, beads and straws!

There was so much to choose from!

Then the teachers helped us to glue everything together! Some of us were pretty good with the glue guns so we got to do it on our own!

You can start to see our Santas coming to life!

Next came the robotic part! We were each given a motor, a battery and wire! We had to connect the wires to the battery to make the motor spin!

Once they were connected the teachers helped us to glue them on to our Santas and also to glue a present on to the motor to spin around!

Here are some of our finished Robot Santa Claus!

We can't wait to show them to you!!!! This was the best morning ever!!! 

WE LOVE ROBOTICS!!!!!

Thank you Make and Play !!!! Thank you Anna!!

28 Novembe 2018

Good afternoon! Today in Reception we worked with Miss Helen on our numbers and talked about food.

We had to color the right amount of pictures in our notebooks.

Then we practised our poem and our songs for the Christmas Concert.

27 November 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we started the day by practising our songs for the Christmas Concert which will be December 21st at 11:30 which is the last day before the break!

Then Miss Paola read us a story that Anna shared with us! It was about a little girl who had to learn to control her anger.

After the story we had to draw a picture!

22 November 2018

Good afternoon!! Yesterday in Reception we went to the Museo di Storia Naturale e Archeologia di Montebelluna for a laboratory on Natural Colors!

First we started by introducing ourselves to our guide and sharing our favourite colors. then we had to go on a treasure hunt to find Red, Blue, Green and Yellow cards in the museum.

After that we had a small slide show about colors and where they come from. Did you know that most colors used to paint and dye come from vegetables?!?!?!?

The guide showed where green, red, yellow and blue come from! Red came from cooked beets. Green from crushed fresh spinach. Blue from purple cabbage. Yellow from powdered ochre. We got to touch, smell and see these vegetables and the guide showed us how to extract the color.

Then it was turn!! We had to crush the spinach leaves with the mortar and pestle then drain the leaves with water. We mixed the powdered ochre with water and honey to make a paint. We squished the cooked beets to get the color and also used tea bags.

We took these colors and finger painted! We had yellow, red and green!! For the blue, we took fresh cut cabbage and scraped it across the page!

As for the finished result, well we hope you enjoyed them!

20 November 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we continued work on out Winter paintings with Miss Paola!

We had to attach the orange nose to our snowman and then paint his buttons, eyes,arms and mouth in black.

It was fun to paint with the paint brush!

Then we had to do some Maths with Miss Paola and color in rulers.

Then cut them out!

And then paste them in order of length! It was a busy day!

16 November 2018

Good afternoon!! Today we went to Sarmede to listen to some fun books and to see all the special artwork that comes from them!!

Our guide was really fun!! She made us laugh a lot and taught us many things!!

We heard 4 great stories!! It was such a special day!!

15 November 2018

Good afternoon!!Today in reception we had Music with Miss Elena. We have started to practise for the Christmas recital. 

We are learning to play some instruments to really WOW you!!

14 November 2018

Good afternoon!! This morning in Reception we worked on Maths with Miss Helen.

We had to count and color certain pictures in our notebook! 

Then after break she taught us a Christmas poem we will have to say during the recital!

We also went over all the English songs we will have to sing for you!! We can't wait to wow you with our voices and our moves!!

13 November 2018

Good afternoon! Today in Reception we worked on some winter art with Miss Paola.

First she painted our hand and arm with brown paint, then we pressed them to the paper.

By doing this, we got the base for a tree! Now we have to wait until tomorrow to see what else we will do to finish the work!

We also had to draw a picture about a really nice story that Miss Paola read to us!

12 November 2018

Good Afternoon! Today in Reception, we started the day with Weekend News with Miss Helen!

She asked each one of us what we did over the weekend and we had to share with the class and then draw a picture.

And today we were very lucky as we had two birthdays in Materna Inglese! Happy Birthday to Sebastiano and Elia and thank you for the yummy cakes!

9 November 2018

Good afternoon!! We hope everyone enjoyed the Castagnata yesterday! We know we did! They were very yummy! Today in Reception we played some fun games with Miss Paola.

She said we were learning while doing it but it sure didn't seem like it! We played Telephone!

Where we have to pass a word around whispering in each others ears. Its funny to see how the word changes from one person to another.

We also played a game where we picked a card with an object on it and we had to describe it and our classmates had to guess what it was. Some were really easy and some were really hard!

It was a fun morning, but then we also had a practise firedrill!!! That was a little scary because we didn't know if there was really a fire or not! But Miss Paola and Miss Lindsay said we were all really good about getting into line and walking outside! We learned in the end that is was just a practise and that there was no fire!