wb 20.2.17

Phew!
What a busy first week back we've had!
We continue to enjoy exploring our ice cave and writing on the ice wall.

  Practising our tricky words and ccvc words in phonics.

 We were pleased to welcome Mr Knights on Wednesday this week and were even more pleased that we are continuing our Gymnastics work.

 Some super balancing.

 Sticking with our icy theme, this week we have been learning about emperor penguins in Antarctica.  We also enjoyed making our very own raspberry and banana ice cream, yummy.

 Wednesday afternoon and we were lucky enough to have a visit from two farmers with their tractor, we found out all about how the tractor helps with the production of our food.  We also look at some different grain crops and found out which foods they are used in.

 ''Look Daddy I'm in Shaun's tractor''

 

In maths we have been working hard to find out more about two digit numbers and how they are made from two parts; tens and ones.  We have also been finding out whether or not they are odd or even.

 

Friday, we all got busy in the outdoor area clearing up after storm Doris, what busy work.

 

 

Finally we finished with some lovely 3D artwork, just look at all of these penguins.

Congratulations to Lily, our Golden Book winner this week for a fantastic piece of independent writing abut penguins.


Don't forget... Next week is brilliant book week in school and Thursday is National World Book Day.  Come dressed as your favourite character and help raise funds for the school council.  Get planning those costumes if you haven't done so already.

Week beginning 6.2.17

Our winter and Arctic knowledge is forever growing...we would be able to fill you in with many facts about a variety of arctic animals, winter sports and much more.
This week we have read the book 'Tiger in the Snow!' by Nick Butterworth and acted out Tiger's adventure on the sledge found in the snow. Lots of new words have been shared alongside a pretend journey down the imaginary slope. Take a look...

Whizzing, slipping, sliding, gliding, bumping and jumping...

FLUMP! We landed. That was fun!

 

Family and friends have joined us for a share on Wednesday and created beautiful arctic landscapes.

 

 

 

 Thank you all for coming!

 

 

Lots of fun and hard work in PE. We followed instructions carefully and managed to move from a starting position (knees bent and arms to the front) into a forward roll and get back on our feet all in one motion.

 

 

A busy end to the week and a day out for our Pyramid Day...

Thank you to Holton for hosting this wonderful day of exciting Science activities and Internet Safety.

We enjoyed painting with frozen paint cubes.

 
 

Building bridges.

 

Making enormous bubbles and much  more.

Look how many of played together at lunchtime!

 

As always the children behaved brilliantly and were a pleasure to take out for the day.

 

Well done everyone, enjoy a well earned rest over the half term.

Week Beginning 30.1.2017

This week we got better at finding out facts about Alaska and people who live there. Most of us already knew what igloos are and what they are used for. What we didn't know was how to build one so we had a little practice at it. Have a look...

 

 

 

 

 

Of course arctic fishing couldn't be missed...and what a catch!

Despite all these lovely activities the top attraction of the week has to be tobogganing! Look at that slope and give us your thumbs up for bravery and physical skills... 

In class we have been working very hard on our independent writing and starting to make some super progress...

Sentence writing in phonics.

 

Writing on the whiteboard.

 

 

Writing in our books, comparing our lives to those of Inuit children we have been learning about this week in class.

 

In maths we have been thinking about shape, pattern and positional language,

We built 'Beebot some steps and a ski slope to relive our toboggan experience from earlier this week.  The challenge was to get him up the steps and down the slope.  Lots of conversation was generated between pairs of children working together.

 

 

Congratulations to Dotty, our Golden Book winner this week for super writing in class.

Week beginning 23rd.1.2017

Another great, busy week in Class 1. We had some important tasks to carry out such as:

 

Making Queen Elsa her own ice palace....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rescuing the animals from the ice (it took a long time and a lot of thinking to free the poor animals from the ice blocks)...

 

...making lovely wintery patterns using a variety of materials...

 

...cooking a warm, tummy-filling rice pudding...

...which went down a treat!

 Our maths this week, we have been getting better at doubling and halving.. playing matching and sort games to help us along the way.

 

 

We completed our lovely display in class on Artic animals using pictures the children have drawn and fact books they have written.

 

We also did a great experiment to see how the animals we have been learning about keep warm in the freezing cold water...

Some icy cold water...

 

A layer of fat...

 

And some plastic bags...

 

We discovered that the finger wrapped in fat stayed warm because it was insulated from the cold. All children could feel the difference and agreed that they would rather be well insulated to go swimming in the Arctic waters.

 

Congratulations to Shelby, our Golden Book winner this week, for settling so well to life here at Wenhaston Primary.



Week Beginning 16.1.2017

So, this week we have literally experienced the 'land of frozen' as we have seen temperatures drop considerably...nothing can stop us going outdoor so we made the most of the icy mornings and went outside to find out more about cold weather. Exciting time had by all....

Mark making in the frost

 Pretty, sparkly frost

 What have we found here..?

 Can you hear the crunch under you feet when walking on ice?

 

   Inspired by the Anna's frozen heart we made our very own little frozen hearts using juicy strawberries and white chocolate.

They tasted amazing!



Frozen ice flakes made of stones and buttons...

 

 

Also fitting in time for our self chosen activities, look at this lovely flower picture Logan made for his Mum.

 

We have had lots of treats this week, Lilly kindly baked some brownies for the whole class to share at snack time.

 

 

We have also been working hard too; using Numicon in maths to help us add two numbers together.

 

Finally, we finished our week with our Frozen party, we saw bits of the film, we finished our Frozen art, had a good sing song and enjoyed a game of pass the parcel.

 

 

Congratulations to Lucian; our Golden Book winner this week, for some super writing and excellent adding with Numicon in maths.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.