Cockle Bay School celebrated Happy Halloween a day early, on Friday 30 October. People could dress up as Sweet or Spooky, so one of the first things we did was a photo shoot of our costumes.
To create a spooky mood, Mrs Bear lit the jack-o-lantern after she has explained the safety rules. Everyone else decorated the classroom with spooky spiders (which we could take home) and sticky cobwebs - even the teacher's lap top was cobwebbed!
As it was Friday, we checked out home learning books. People who worked hard on either, the HAPPY HALLOWEEN word challenge or the NUMBER SENTENCES TO 31 challenge received a special HAPPY HALLOWEEN balloon.
Next, it was time for Spider Web Maths, especially designed for Halloween! Here are some samples of our book work:
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PHOTO OF SKELETON PARADE TO COME
After lunch, we made Xrays of our own hands! First we worked with a buddy to draw around our hand. Then we looked carefully at how the joints in our hands actually work so we could place the finger bones correctly. Wherever we could bend our fingers or thumbs, there was a joint, a little bit like a tiny knee cap. We drew a line at each joint. We could also feel the bones, especially in our arms.
When this was done, we coloured the pencil outline and joint lines with thick black wax crayon - this represented our skin. Finally, we painted the bones very carefully with vegetable oil, using a cotton bud so that the oil did not spread too much.
The next day, when the xrays held up to the light, you could you could see 'bones' where the oil had soaked into the paper and the dark black outlines which were the skin and muscles. It was amazing to see just how many bones we have in just one hand!
We looked at the real Xray of a hand on our new light box to help us visualise what was inside our hands. By feeling out bones and looking for joints carefully, we were pleased to see how similar our pretend xrays were to the real thing!
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