Week Beginning 14th December 2020

 

Can you believe it? It is the end of the term already!!

We have had another busy week learning and having fun and needless to say we are all in need of a restful, well deserved holiday. 

This week we have written a letter to Santa, asking for a toy or two....

Well done! We look forward to hear all about your Christmas presents in the new year!

We have also been very busy looking after Trixie, our class elf. She was very poorly during the week and the doctor suggested we looked after her and keep the noise down.....

Poor Trixie was wearing a mask and slept all day long.

Dr Frost kindly left a note for us to make sure we would look after her and keep the noise down...Shhhhhhh!

The children were very kind and wrote get well cards for her. 

You will be pleased to know she is feeling a lot better now.  Well done children. 

We also received another important letter from a mysterious visitor who had lost a key???  We had to investigate how this may have happened, who it may have been from and where to find it...

It was Greg who spotted the key on our Story chair.

Well done everyone, I think the owner will be very pleased.

We also had our lovely Christmas dinner, thank you to Mrs Kett for feeding us so well.

If you haven't yet seen it, please remember that our Nativity is on our Google Classroom, we are so proud of the children for doing such a good job.  Recording a play without an audience actually there to watch is a difficult task for any actor or actress.

Finally to finish a Covid friendly visit from a very special person...

All that is left to say is have a very Merry Christmas .

Week Beginning 7th December 2020

 The No Hands Stand: Can you do it? 

We have challenged ourselves to stand up from sitting on the floor with our legs crossed without using our arms. We thought it was going to be super easy but had to test it out a few times before getting right...

Well done to all in class one for rising to the challenge!

Everyone used a slightly different technique but most got up with no hands on the floor!

This pose helps strengthening our thighs and upper body muscles. 

In English we have learnt the story of Cinderella and wrote about how some of the characters felt in the story.

Some children thought that Cinderella must have felt sad when she was told she was not allowed to go to the Royal Ball...

Of course the pupils thought that the mouse and the horse would have felt like helping the poor girl out:

'The horse will help her pull the carriage along to the palace'.

'The mouse will help Cinderella get the Fairy Godmother'. 

Later in the week we had a fantastic PE session with Mr Sanders using the gym apparatus.  The children all performed fantastically and showed the much needed listening skills to find out how to use all of the different pieces of equipment safely. Well done.

And the came the 'Grande Finale' 

Our Cinderella Pantomine....Oh no it didn't, oh yes it did!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Enjoy looking through your child's books and please remember to bring them back on Monday.

Many thanks

 

Week Beginning 30th November 2020

You will all be pleased to know that our new camera has arrived and it has not stopped snapping photos....

On top of that the count down to Christmas has started...

Following last week's theme about Winter we have created some wintery artwork using different media and techniques. Please take a look at our Zentangle drawings on calming watercolour background:

Our classroom has been decorated for Christmas but most importantly we have a very special visitor in Class One....

She will keep an eye on us and will report back to Santa at the end of the day...she has also taken to sending us notes.

As the week went on we decided to set Trixie up with her own space in the classroom, children have been so busy writing her messages and making her cards and pictures.

In Maths we have continued our work on Subtraction... we started the week using pictures to solve the problems and then moved onto written number sentences and used a selection of manipulatives to help us solve them.

Some of us found the counting bears helpful, others of us preferred to use the Numicon tiles and pegs.

We finished the week with some spectacular problem solving, using their subtraction skills, children had to solve the number sentences and crack the colour code.  They then had to make a paper chain decoration with the colours.

Super maths everyone  !

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 22nd November

 Apologies to all, unfortunately our camera has decided to stop working this week. please bear with us whilst we wait for the new camera to arrive.....

As always we have started the week revising some of the yoga poses we have learnt so far and tried an new one: BOW POSE.

Lying on your tummy bend your knees and reach your arms back to hold your ankles. Pull you legs up and back, 'stringing the bow'.

This is a great pose to stretch your entire body and strengthen the large muscles in your back and legs. 

No need to say all of the children put a lot of effort into this and managed to find their ankles the first time round.  👍

Winter is well and truly on its way and, as part of our topic, we have shared facts we already know  about this season and discovered new ones. We spent time looking at the frost in our playground on Monday morning and looked at pictures and clips of wintery landscapes and animals.

We know some animals go to sleep in winter whilst others are very busy keeping their tummies full like the squirrels   🐿

Lots of lovely non-fiction writing. well done.

Well done to all of the children that are working hard with their reading at home.  Our Class reading chart is well and truly underway now, with some children already having reached their first 'milestone'.

The challenge is to read your way along the path to the Enchanted Castle...with five 'stops' along the way where children will pick up stamps for their reading journals.  To move along the chart we have to see in the journal that the children have read at home with a grown up, which I know many of you do, but not all record it, please use the journal to help the children on their journey.

On completion of the chart the children will gain a certificate to bring home.

It hasn't gone unoticed by the children, that both Class 3 and Class 2 have recently had themed  days and come to school dressed up.

Next week we start all things Christmassy in Class 1, along with the build up to our virtual Pantomine - Cinderella.

Please start thinking ahead as we would love our children to come dressed with a Cinderella theme on Friday 11th December.

(There is a letter regarding this in reading bags today)

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 16th November

  Namaste!

Take a look at how we started our week exploring yet another pose: SEAL pose.

 

As well as revising some of the tricky poses we have learnt over the past few weeks we try to introduce a new one each week.

The children enjoyed pretending to be little seals swimming under the sea. Straight arms and legs, bent back here we come!

Which one is your favourite TV show or movie?

Children were 'inspired' by the our box TVs and drew pictures of some of their favourite things they watch on telly. 

'My favourite movie is The Lion King'

'I like Spiderman'.

‘I’m watching Happy Feet’

                                                 

           I like watching Princess Sophia. 

🚓National Safety Week🚒

We shared many chats about keeping safe when near a road and how to cross safely. 

STOP!

LOOK!

LISTEN!

Why do we have to listen??

We spent some time outside observing the traffic on our road and listened.... We could hear some cars going past but others were really quiet.

‘It’s so quiet!’

'I can hear something!!' 'I think it's a car!!'

We also made some cool 'Bag Tags' to help make our journey to and from school a little safer during the darker days...We investigated different materials and learnt what was meant by Flourescent by day, Reflective by night.

With the help of a little dark den and some artificial light, it all became clear.

''Ah these are bright so they can keep us safer!''

Ta-dah!

A little bit of Science....🦠❗️

Why do we have to wash our hands?

We all agree germs are not very nice and we can't really seem them.

We found some fake germs (glitter) and put them on one hand. We rubbed our hands together  guess what?? The germs starting spreading!

                                                    Disaster!!!

                                          Quick! Wash your hands with cold water!

                                           Oh no! there are still germs left on our hands!!

We better use soap and warm water....

Phew! That's better. Clean hands.

Outside, we transferred what we had found out about road safety to our very own roadway...

Maths we have been learning about adding two sets of numbers together to find a total.

''Look 5 and 3 make 8 altogether.''

Finally our independent writing skills have taken another jump this week, some of us have enjoyed some colouring pictures and then created our own sentences to accompany them, take a look.

He is happy and so were the grown ups to this wonderful writing!

A busy week as you can see, after a cold start this morning and probably more to come, can you please send a pair of gloves with your child now.  We spend a lot of time outside throughout the day, not just at playtimes.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.