Week Beginning 26th November 2018

Happy Hanukkah!
This week we have read the story of Hanukkah and how the Jewish people celebrate it.


We looked at a Menorah.  On the Hanukkah Menorah, eight of the arms are for the candles which represent the 8 miracle days, and the ninth arm is for the candle used to light the others.

Some of us enjoyed sharing facts we have learnt about Hanukkah with friends.

Whilst others made a wooden replica of the Menorah.

In PE we spent a session worked on keeping calm and peaceful. We did a bit of meditation and followed instructions well. Some of us felt very relaxed and a bit sleepy too after this exercise.

 Can you feel the warm air coming out of your nose?

Can you put any worries into a hot air balloon and watch it float away?

Can you feel your tummy when you take deep breaths?

More tummy breathing...

 

We have also found time for lots of lovely independent activities, such as trying out some tricky cutting tasks to create lovely star collages.

Independent writing.

'Yummy, look at all my doughnuts.'

Some excellent phonics.

 

Friday afternoon bought us a challenge, back to our Hanukkah theme, how do you make a star of David using only 6 lolllysticks?

 I think you make two triangles and stick them together?

 

Here's two triangles but they haven't made a star?

 

After lots of thinking and talking about what needed to go where, we all got there in the end.

Well done.

 

Practise for the play is coming along well and the children are all working hard to learn their parts, well done.
We look forward to the arrival of all of the lovely costumes in school next week.

Congratulations to Eli, our Golden Book winner today for trying hard to be more independent in class, well done.

Week Beginning 19th November 2018

It's celebration Time in Class One!
We started the week talking about all the special events we celebrated over the past few weeks and thought about what other things are there to celebrate. Of course it didn't take long for the children to think about Christmas and birthdays.
We had a chat about everyday things that might not feel like a celebration but they actually mark very important moments in our lives like riding a bicycle without help for the first time, swim, do our shoe laces, start school and many more. 
Birthdays were the most popular of all mentioned celebrations so we set off to celebrate.....

 

 

Some of us made some incredible cakes using wooden blocks and fruits.

 Others made special chocolates for people in need.

"There are chocolates on top of my chocolates"

 

"Shhhhh......! It's Phoebe's birthday. I'm making some chocolates for her."



Some of us got REALLY busy writing to family and friends. There were birthday cards, party invitations and Well Done certificates being created.

"This is for you, it says come to my party".

 

And to add a bit of fun why not have a go at 'Pin the Cherry' on the cupcake game?

 

"I am very good at this because I've been to lots of parties"

 

"You know, I can do it even better if I have another go".

 

 

New friendships have blossomed too.

'Let's hold hands'.

 

Our party theme also inspired lots of independent mask making...

 

 

 Working hard to perfect our cutting skills.

 

 

We have also had time to fit various Literacy tasks too...

 

What a busy week, well done everyone.

 

Preparation for our Christmas play is now well and truly underway and the children should have bought home their letters about costumes today, if for any reason you have not received this please come and ask.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

This week has been a very thoughtful one. Children  learnt about Remembrance Day and why we celebrate it. We talked about why people wear red poppies and how the money raised is used.

Children made poppies and all things red with play dough.

 

Some of us decorated special medals for the soldiers who died for us.

 

We walked to the local War Memorial and read some of the messages people have left there.  

 

 

We had  some quiet time to think about those who lost their lives in the wars and said a big thank you.

Back at school we found an empty big box which soon became very popular amongst the children.

It turned into a jail, a turtle shell a bed and much more....

An empty box...

 

I'm in jail!

I'm like a turtle!

 

Two peas in a pod!

 

Thursday was a very exciting day for all in Class 1 as we welcomed our new sports coach, Mr Sanders...

The children followed his instructions carefully to learn lots of new warm up games, The bean game, The car game and more.

We talked about using space, changing direction, moving in different ways and starting and stopping on a signal.

As you can see, everyone had a wonderful time.

 

 

 

 Congratulations to Leonora; Our Golden Book winner this week for being so enthusiastic about everything in class.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.