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Space is such an interesting theme topic that we will be carrying it over two weeks. The Squad spoke about the different planets and we we’ve learnt the distance from the sun to each planet by saying this: My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Energetic (Earth) Mother (Mars) Jumped (Jupiter) Straight (Saturn) Under (Uranus) Nine (Neptune) Planets (Pluto – Dwarf Planet). 

IB Principle: Critical Thinkers – the squad spoke about how we can expand our thinking so that we are able to ask those difficult questions. Incorporating both left and right hemispheres so that we are able to be logical and creative. We need to process the negative so that we can enjoy the positive. We taught this by explaining that there are good and bad decisions, and it is okay to make mistakes, but it is how we learn from them and build from those experiences. 

Writing and Phonics: The next four sight words “come”, “we”, “of” and “see” – we also went through the sight words to date. Last week we also focused on our next word family which was the “an” family. We write sentences using these words and it was so wonderful to see how the Squad are able to form their own sentences together as a team such as “the man has a pan and a fan”! This week we introduced the “am” family such as “ham, dam, jam, ram”. Their use of finger spacing is improving. Congratulations Smart Squad. We are so proud of you.  

Mathematics: Last week we taught the squad how to tally and this week we expanded on this by incorporating a graph and then using a tally to express these digits. We are pleased with how well they were able to retain the information taught last week and use that to complete the worksheet. We also completed some subtraction to 10 sums – we really are pleased with how quickly they grasped this concept. 

Creative Art: We painted patterns this week but first worked on our placement and proportion on a blank page. We also expressed different patterns building 2 or more using shapes, lines and drawings. We are using these to make a wonderfully large slithering space snake that will be displayed at Art Expo. We also created a rocket ship using toilet rolls and paper cones. So cute!  

Music: We are in full swing of practicing for our annual concert – the children are singing their hearts out. Keep it up.  

Wishing you all a lovely weekend. 

 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

    

 Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

 

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants 

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Space is always such an exciting and interesting theme which we can expand so much on. The Crew have a good understanding of space and it was great to go into the finer detail about space. This week our ring times have been extra-long because there is just so much information on space. 

The Sun is a star and the stars we see up in the night sky are far away ‘suns’ in the sky. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are rocky planets, they are solid, and Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are planets made of liquid and gas. 

The rings around Saturn are made up of rocks, dust and ice. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system because of the gas that surrounds the planet and traps hot air under the gas cloud. Our galaxy is called The Milky Way. 

Go through some of these facts with your children to see how many they can remember from ringtime discussions. We also watched a few YouTube Videos on astronauts up in space and how they wash their hair, brush their teeth, how they go to the toilet and the kind of exercises they have to do to keep fit. 

Over the past few weeks, we have been hard at work with concert practice. Each day the Crew have been up on stage making sure they know their moves and their words for this special occasion! We are SUPER proud of them and are really holding thumbs that when they are up their looking down on so many people that they are still just as confident and full of beans ready to show off to their friends and family. We have told the Crew to just have fun and give us big smiles when they are up there! 

Here is a breakdown of some of the activities we have completed in the last 2 weeks. The Crew had to complete a colour by numbers solar system. This activity is not only about colouring in but ‘reading’, number recognition and planning.  

We did a little hexagon and counting activity where the Crew were instructed, in a hive of hexagons, they had to draw 9 bees. Again, they had to pay attention to what they were doing and count as they went along. Believe it or not a lot of the Crew drew many more than 9 bees. LOL. 

We also completed a visual perceptual worksheet. The Crew had to first colour in a picture of our solar system. Then they had to cut the picture out, which was divided into 6 pieces. And stick it back together like a puzzle. One of the kiddies really struggled with this and became teary and upset that her puzzle wasn’t coming together as she wanted it to because she stuck the pieces down first before organising them to see which ones fit together. This was a great learning opportunity! I reassured her that it was ok to be upset but she can learn from this and next time know how to plan better.  

Learning opportunities like this are gems! Life lessons! It’s ok to make mistakes and that things don’t always work out like you planned but you can learn from these mistakes and now you will know a better way to approach this type of challenge in the future.  

We hope you enjoy the Concert! We are ready and super excited! 

Next week’s theme: Dinosaurs 

 

 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

    

 Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

 

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants 

Our Precious Stars!

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What a fun exciting two weeks we have had! Last week was all about concert and we are so proud of all our Hoppers, they are all Superstars. 

We had a lot of fun with this theme and really tapped into our imagination chatting about space. The Hoppers learnt so much about Space. We did some fun activities like catching a star with tweezers hidden in a bucket of beads. This is such a wonderful fine motor activity. We also tried to copy and create our own planets with loose parts, this was great fun. 

Our Hoppers love dancing to songs and loved learning the words to the planet song. After we listened to the planet song the children were all hyped up and excited to start their planet artworks project. 

We did an amazing balloon painting to create planets. These came out so amazing, we decided to keep them for the art expo. 

We focused on our letter of the week. We read all about Noisy Nick and all the noise he likes to make. The rest of the week we finished off our art and watched some space videos and some astronauts in space, and even a space rocket launch. This was so exciting to watch, and our Hoppers loved it.  

For FunFit sports this week, the Hoppers did an obstacle course with Coach Trevor using the jungle gym, they loved this and did so well when they got to the monkey bars. Well done Hoppers. 

Yay for Yoga! Wheels on the bus yoga. Ankle rotations/rolls help improve blood circulation in the ankle and legs. It is also excellent for improving ankle mobility and flexibility. Our various poses included Open leg forward bend. Triangle Pose, Child Pose, Spinal twists and one leg balance poses. 

Thank you for all the donations for our Concert, we really appreciate it. 

Our theme next week is: Dinosaurs 

Have a safe and lovely weekend! 

 

 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

    

 Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

 

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants 

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We are so excited for our concert tomorrow! We can’t wait for you to see all of the hard work that the Bugs have put in! 

Twinkle-twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are… This was one of many Space themed songs that were sung over the past 2 weeks and boy did we have fun singing them!   

Our Busy Bugs absolutely loved learning about space and all of  the aspects involved. We spoke about the planets, meteors, stars, the milky way, astronauts and rockets. We watched lots of videos teaching us about all of these things and looked at loads of awesome pictures taken by satellites. We learned that we live on planet Earth, and this is the only planet that is known to have enough surface water to be inhabited by humans. We learned that Saturn has a giant ring of floating ice and rock chunks, and that Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.   

We spoke about astronauts and their space gear. They must wear special suits and helmets while up in space because humans cannot breathe that far up. We spoke about gravity and how it makes objects, including people, stay on the ground. If there was no gravity, we would float away- the Bugs thought this was very funny! We also spoke about the special food that astronauts eat.  

For art, we made 2 beautiful Space pieces, but we loved them so much, we have decided to keep the for Art Expo!  

We also made a collaborative art piece, where each Bugs got to make a different part of the solar system.  

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend, and we will see you next week for another exciting theme!  

This week’s question: 

In your view, is Pluto still a planet? 

Next week’s theme: Dinosaurs and Under the Soil 

 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

    

 Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

 

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Ash and the Busy Bugs Assistants 

Our Precious Stars!

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Over the past two weeks, our adventure into the wonders of space has been an absolute blast! In the first week, we just touched on space because we were so busy practicing and preparing for the concert.  

 Space is one of the school’s favourite themes! There is so much room for exploration and learning. However, explaining space to a 2-year-old is quite a challenge. It’s hard for them to grasp that they live in a country called South Africa, let alone on a planet called Earth, in a galaxy that’s bigger than they could ever imagine! So, we focused on things they can see and understand, like stars, rockets, the moon, and astronauts. We talked about the planets and the solar system, and we feel that they really grasped the concepts we were introducing! 

 In our art sessions, we worked on some art expo pieces and also our birthday art. We engaged in fine motor activities like playing with playdough, making little worms out of the dough. The Pups had so much fun squishing and rolling the dough, and it was a great way for them to strengthen their little fingers. 

 In our FunFit sports sessions, we played a game where we had to throw 10 balls into a bucket using only one hand. The Pups did amazingly well! They were so focused and determined, and it was wonderful to see their hand-eye coordination improve. While working on our counting, we counted all the way up to 10 and then blasted off into space, just like real astronauts! The Pups loved shouting “Blast off!” and imagining they were zooming through the stars. 

 We also sang “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” while lying on the carpet and making stars with our hands. It was a magical moment, seeing their little faces light up as they sang and made star shapes with their fingers.  

 We are so excited to see all of you on Saturday for our big concert day! The Pups have worked so hard, and they can’t wait to show you all the wonderful things they’ve learned and practiced. See you there! 

 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

    

 Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

 

Lots of love

Teacher Monette and the Playful Pups Assistants 

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Moral conscious theme: Giving – This week we focused our discussion on the gift of giving. We explained to the Squad that it is such a special feeling when we know that we have helped someone in need whether it be by giving our time or giving them an item that they need. We also discussed the less fortunate and how we should be grateful for the things that we have.

The Squad made sleeping bags out of newspaper and plastic this week for Nelson Mandela Day. They really enjoyed this so much.

Writing and Phonics: Last week we focused on recapping our sight words and letter sounds. We discussed the term ‘blending’ and went through our blending sounds such as ‘th’ and ‘sh’ and ‘ch’. The Squad are really getting the hand of reading independently. We then completed a worksheet where they needed to read the sentences and then rewrite them using the cat method. This week we looked through magazines and looked for sight words by circling them. We also played a game on the board where the sight word was written, and the children were asked one by one to go and spot that word. We were pleased with their progress.

Our sight words to date are as follows: dog, me, is, big, I, and, am, an , it, see, to, come, yes, not, get, on, the, can, dad, go, here, so, do, he, up, she, we, at, mom, has, no, a, in, look, but, cat, of, my, DAY (new sight word)

Mathematics: Last week we went over counting to 30 and back. We also focused on counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This is a tricky concept for the Squad, so we incorporate showing the children visually and by singing it out by rote method. This concept can be introduced at home by writing it on a piece of paper and placing it in a location your child sees every day.

This week we played a game of bingo and the children had to circle if they had the number. They loved this! We also had two worksheets to complete which was an addition and subtraction worksheet whereby the children had to fill in the number sentence and provide the answer. Well done!

Creative Art: The Squad completed three art activities over the two weeks. The first one was to decorate their own planet – name it and then create their own alien. The second was to make their very own rocket which was made using an empty toilet roll, sewing reels and paper. The last was to decorate a moon face. All of which came out so beautifully we are only sending one home and keeping the other two for art expo.

Music and Cooking: For cooking we made space cake balls. The Squad mixed condensed milk, coconut shavings, milo, milk and crushed Marie biscuits. The result was delicious! For music we were practicing our concert songs.

We would like to thank you all for attending our annual school concert it was a blast and the children really did a spectacular job! We were so proud of them!

FunFit Sports: The children completed an obstacle course whereby they jumped, dribbled a climbed through different equipment. They had so much fun. Photos are in the blog.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

Keep Warm!

    

 Dates to Diarise: 

8 Aug: Pyjama Dress Up Day

8 Aug: Break Up Day

9 Aug: Public Holiday

10 Aug: Holiday Club Starts

1 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

6 Sept: Term 3 Starts!

 

 

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

We Love Our Squad To The Moon and Back!

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This week in the Curious Crew class , we had a double week of possibly the best theme ever !! SPACE . We took theme discussion very seriously this week , we took our time learning all the planets names and the order they’re in in the solar system. 

We watched education videos on how the solar system works, and we learnt about black holes and stars too. 

It was amazing to see the knowledge that each child has on space ! . 

We also learnt facts on planets , and learnt so much with just the videos we watched. 

For art this week , we did a number of amazing fun art pieces, we focused on a colour by number colouring in picture , we did a cute star constellation worksheet too , we also did a super fun puzzle worksheet , where each child had to colour in the planets , cut it out and put it back together as a puzzle , everyone did amazing , they concentrated so hard and ended up completing this task to the best of their abilities . 

YOGA 

B*I*N*G*O

Yoga bingo this week was a total hit. 

This game teaches phonics,  sounds as well as learning to listen, auditory memory, picture/word recognition, and concentration. By reading out a word, the kids had to find the correct picture and place a red marker on it. The 1st team to get all the pictures and shout BINGO were the yogi stars of the day 

FUNFIT SPORTS 

This week sports was one heck of a fun session for everyone. Coach Trevor loves putting the crew to the test when he sets out obstacle courses for us to complete. With a timer too !!! 

He loves challenging our kiddos and boy our kiddos complete these challenges with ease. 

On Thursday was our baking day !!  we made the most delicious galaxy cupcakes. The kids just loved decorating their cupcakes with icing and sprinkles and they have been so excited to show all the parents their amazing work . 

Well done Curious Crew. 

What a fun , educational , super exciting week it has been for our class.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

Keep Warm!

    

 Dates to Diarise: 

8 Aug: Pyjama Dress Up Day

8 Aug: Break Up Day

9 Aug: Public Holiday

10 Aug: Holiday Club Starts

1 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

6 Sept: Term 3 Starts!

 

 

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

We Love Our Crew To The Moon and Back!

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What a fun, exciting two weeks we have had! Last week was all about concert and we are so proud of all our Hoppers, they are all superstars.

We had a lot of fun with this theme and really tapped into our imagination coming up with our own planets we would like to visit in our rockets as astronauts. 

Our Hoppers love dancing to songs and loved learning the words to the planet song. After we listened to the planet song the children were all hyped up and excited to start their Solar System and Galaxy space rockets artworks! 

We started off with our awesome space galaxy art, the Hoppers got to choose what colours they wanted and used earbuds and paintbrushes to splash paint onto black paper. The children then made their rockets by pasting different shapes onto the paper. These looked so amazing, we decided to keep them for art expo. 

For the next piece of art, they coloured in the sun and planets so beautifully. 

We used a poster of the Solar System to see the colours of the planets, but of course, there were no colour scheme rules, their artistic flair took over in the best way! Later on, in the week the hoppers worked on their pasting skills by glueing the sun and planets onto a paper plate that we sponge painted with black paint and lots of sparkly glitter.  

We focused on our letter of the week. We read all about Noisy Nick and all the noise he likes to make. The rest of the week we finished off our art and watched some space videos and some astronauts in space, and even a space rocket launch. This was so exciting to watch, and our Hoppers loved it.  

For fun fit sports this week, the Hoppers did an obstacle course with Coach Trevor using the jungle gym, the loved this and did so well when they got to the monkey bars. Well done Hoppers. 

Thank you for all the donations for Mandela day, hope you all have a lovely weekend and all out sick Hoppers recover this weekend and see you all Monday! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

Keep Warm!

    

 Dates to Diarise: 

8 Aug: Pyjama Dress Up Day

8 Aug: Break Up Day

9 Aug: Public Holiday

10 Aug: Holiday Club Starts

1 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

6 Sept: Term 3 Starts!

 

 

Lots of love

Teacher Kate-Lynn, Teacher Katy and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

We Love Our Hoppers To The Moon and Back!

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Our concert was a HUGE success! And we are so unbelievably proud of our Busy Bugs! Thank you for coming out to support us! 

Twinkle-twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are… This was one of many space themed songs that were sung this week and boy did we have fun singing them!  

Our Busy Bugs absolutely loved learning about space and all of the aspects involved. We spoke about the planets, meteors, stars, the milky way, astronauts and rockets. We watched lots of videos teaching us about all of these things and looked at loads of awesome pictures taken by satellites. We learned that we live on planet Earth, and this is the only planet that is known to have enough surface water to be inhabited by humans. We learned that Saturn has a giant ring of floating ice and rock chunks and that Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.  

We spoke about astronauts and their space gear. They have to wear special suits and helmets while up in space because humans cannot breathe that far up. We spoke about gravity and how it makes objects, including people, float. We also spoke about the special food that astronauts have to eat. 

For art this week, we the most beautiful pieces, but we loved them so much, we have decided to keep the for art expo! 

Our other piece of art is absolutely stunning! We used white paint flecked with a toothbrush onto black paper to make a starry background, and watered down black paint in a spray bottle to make moons. We used our fine motor skills to stick star stickers onto our paper and use glue and glitter to turn one of our stars into a shooting star. 

We hope that all of our Bugs feel better soon, that you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week for another exciting theme! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

Keep Warm!

    

 Dates to Diarise: 

8 Aug: Pyjama Dress Up Day

8 Aug: Break Up Day

9 Aug: Public Holiday

10 Aug: Holiday Club Starts

1 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

6 Sept: Term 3 Starts!

 

 

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

We Love Our Bugs To The Moon and Back!

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This theme we covered over two weeks. The first week we just touched on Space as we were so busy practising and preparing for the concert.  

This is one of the SCHOOL’S favourite themes! We love how much room for exploration and learning there is with this theme. With that being said, Space is a difficult concept to explain to a 2-year-old! It is difficult to get them to understand that they live in a country called South Africa, never mind a planet called Earth, in a galaxy that is bigger than they could ever understand! So, we spent a lot of time talking about things that they do understand because they can SEE them, such as stars, rockets, the moon, and astronauts! We spoke about the planets and the solar system, and we feel that they really did understand the concepts we were trying to get across!  

For our art, this week we created two beautiful space pictures. The first one is a surprise to see but we can tell you it involved marble rolling which the Pups thoroughly enjoyed. The second art activity is the one they brought home. They made a rocket out of shapes the teachers cut the shapes out and we guided the Pups as to where to place their shapes on a black piece of paper. After that we used white paint and a toothbrush to splatter paint over the rocket to look like it was in space and surrounded by stars. 

The concert was a tremendous success and I have to say the Pups were so brave and I am extremely proud of them!

Have a lovely, relaxed weekend.  

See you on Monday!  

Next week’s theme: Dinosaurs 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

Keep Warm!

    

 Dates to Diarise: 

8 Aug: Pyjama Dress Up Day

8 Aug: Break Up Day

9 Aug: Public Holiday

10 Aug: Holiday Club Starts

1 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

6 Sept: Term 3 Starts!

 

 

Lots of love

Teacher Cecilia and the Playful Pups Assistants

We Love Our Pups To The Moon and Back!

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We have had such a fun week learning about Space. We learnt a little rhyme that helps us remember the planets in order from the sun. The poem goes like this:

My (Mercury), Very (Venus), Energetic (Earth), Mother (Mars), Jumped (Jupiter), Straight (Saturn), Under (Uranus), Nine (Neptune), Planets (Pluto).

We also spoke about how Pluto is a dwarf planet and the sizes and colours of all the different planets. Ask your little one which planet is the hottest and which is the coldest?

Writing and Phonics: This week we continued to recap our “a” family words as well as our sight words. We also focused on ‘ap’ words such as cap, nap, tap etc. We had to add our sound buttons and then sound out each letter, we are impressed with their abilities to recognise the letter and their name. We also had a worksheet for the children to complete where they were given a picture and the word, and they had to match them.  We continued to write in our thin lined books. We wrote senteces with our sight words and our “ap” family words.

Maths: In Maths we practiced we went over subtraction sums up to 20, for example: 20-1=19. We are pleased to see how much the children have grown and how they are able to work independently. We also recapped counting in 2s,5s and 10s. We ask that you continue this revision at home as this will help them in Grade 1 and going forward.

 Life Skills: Keeping promises means being consistent in what we say and do. It helps children feel secure and teaches them the concept of commitment. As teachers, we may promise a favourite activity once the children have completed a less enticing activity, such as tidy up time. We look for opportunities in the classroom to show examples of commitment and the importance of keeping promises.   

 Art: The children really took to this theme; they always enjoy talking about Space and how vast it is. We created two art pieces this week, one was naming our very own planet and making an alien to go along with it (they were adorable, and we will be keeping it for Art Expo). The next creation was their very own space rocket which they built all on their own. Well done, Squad!

 It has been a great week.

See you all next week.

 

 

 

 

WORLD GRANDPARENTS DAY!

This Sunday, the 24th of July,

we celebrate all of our

wonderful EcoGrandparents out there! 

 

 Dates to Diarise:

Pyjama Dress Up & Break Up Day: 5 August 

Holiday Club: 8 August 

Public Holiday: 9 August

Holiday Club: 10 Aug – 2 Sept

Set Up Day: 5 Sept (NO SCHOOL)

Back to School: 6 Sept

 

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Squad Are Out Of This World!!

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Space is one of our most anticipated themes of the year. We had so much fun this week and there have been endless discussions about how vast space is. We were pleased to hear how many planets the Crew knew. We have been practicing all the names of our planets and the Crew are doing well to remember all of the names. We just have to prompt them with the first letter sound of the planet so that they can remember. Test them at home and see how many they can recall!

We started the week off with an introduction on Space, the children looked at different pictures and then we watched a YouTube clip. During ring time this week many different facts were discovered about Space and then they were asked questions the following day if they could remember which planet is the hottest and which planet is the largest. They did so well!

We completed a few worksheets this week that focused on the shape of the week which is the Rhombus or Diamond. We did a colouring, cutting and pasting worksheet that challenged their puzzle and perceptual skills. They had to cut up the space scene and put it back together in the right place. This is tricky – but they did very well, only requiring a little help!

Playdough was a hit this whole week! The Crew made all sorts of things throughout the week and some things relating to space such as planets and star constellations. We printed out pictures of constellations that the children had to try and recreate w