Week Beginning 11th February 2019

 

A colourful picture book that uses the familiar nursery rhyme, “Hickory Dickory Dock”. The author tells the story of a boy and his dog throughout the course of a typical day at home and at school...

Children enjoyed listening to the story and have become familiar with the added rhyming words.
They had the opportunity to act out/freeze framing a scene from the book.
Well done everybody for working in your groups and remembering the words.

                    In maths we learnt about weight and ordered and compared three different items.

                                          "When the bucket goes down it means it is heavier"

                                       "I can feel with my hands which one is heavy".

                              "This one is definitely the lightest so it will have less marbles in it"

                                         "Yes I can feel with my hands which one is heavy!"

                                     We used a balancing scale and marbles to weigh each item.







We had a very busy group of children who enjoyed the Valentine's spirit and made some lovely cards for their special people.

 

In maths we have been measuring and comparing height in then latter part of the week, the children had to build specific towers.  They then add to add towers that were taller, shorter etc.

 

Well done to Phoebe, who after asking for some music on the whiteboard, managed to encourage most of the class to come and sing along and dance with her.

 

 

Some independent counting, well done Eli and Herb for matching all the hearts and finding the corresponding numbers of counters, good teamwork boys.

 

Finally the sunshine has put in an appearance in the outdoor area, Thea took the opportunity to brighten up the place with both her own and her friends lovely artwork.

 

 
Finally one more maths challenge to finish the week... Can you build Rufus? (the dog from our story)

 

 

 

'Yes Miss Welby, we certainly can!'

 

Have a lovely half term everyone.

 

 

Week Beginning 4th February 2019

In Class One we sang and enjoyed this rhyme. We talked about some of the words in it and their meaning (diddle diddle: waste time, fiddle and instrument...)
We have also learnt to sing it using sign language. Why don't you ask your child/ren to show you?

Meanwhile at the challenging table children used their phonics skills to decode words,matched to the correct picture, write them in the sand tray and built the word they started from with the sounds available on the table.

 

 

 

We had special visitors in school this week. The Police came to work with Class Four and before they left we were allowed to go outside and explore the Police van! Needless to say we were all very excited, adults included.

 

 



'Wow! it's real!'

 

 

 

 

To our surprise our children wanted to sit at the back , in the cell.

 

'Can you shut the door please?'

 

'This is so cool!'

 

                                                     'Is this where the baddies go?'

 

In maths this week we have been using the Bee Bots, with our partner we had to think about which direction we needed to travel, whether he needed to turn left or right and then put in the instructions to make him  move.

 

 

 

We have had an amazing creation in Class 1 throughout the second part of the week, our Bat cave / Science Fair...  Children worked together brilliantly to share their ideas for the initial build, add enhancements and use it in their play.  They then 'bugged' the entire class room with 'cameras' to monitor the goings on in Class 1.

 

 

 Some super writing to add labels....

 

And a warning ; Beware cameras are watching.

 

This then inspired some other independent writers to get creative.

 

 

''A fly in the sky flying in the jungle'

 

Congratulations to Ethan, our Golden Book winner today for being a 'super speedy' changer every time we have PE.

 

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

 

 

Week Beginning 28th January 2019

And then there was Little Miss Muffet...

Children have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes this week. They used 3D shapes as printing tools to create a picture of a spider.

 One of the challenges this week was to be able to read the rhyme of Miss Muffet independently or with a friend.

'I can know this one!'

'Can you read it with me so if I get stuck you can help me?'

 

Outdoor children build their very own tuffet...

'Now we can eat our curd...'

 

 

In yoga we enjoyed a Star Wars episode and tried new poses.

In Phonics we worked very hard and wrote new sounds as well as words with the new sounds in. Our letter formation is getting a lot better.

 

 

Wednesday morning, we couldn't wait to get out and enjoy the snow.

We thought about where to throw snow balls without hurting anyone, we decided that the tyre would be a good target.

Some of us braved the scooters in the snow, popping in every so often to warm up our hands.

''Look I am going to make a tiny snowman, all I need now is a little ball for its head.''

 

 

PE with Mr Sanders and we had another session on the apparatus, we were learning how to stay sfae and how to get on and off sensibly.

 

 We have had a challenge in class this week, to learn a new version of Little Miss Muffet.

Many of the children have remembered it well...

Little Miss Tucket

Sat on a bucket

Eating her peaches and cream

Along came a spider

Who sat down beside her

And she said 'GO AWAY OR I'LL SCREAM!'

 

Why don't you quiz them and see if they can remember it over the weekend?

 

Have a lovely weekend.