Week beginning 27th February

This week we have been incredibly busy, we had our first 'Brilliant Book Week' in school. we also had pancake day, world book day....
The whole school started the week reading the story of 'Halibut Jackson' by David Lucas. Loads of different activities have been carried out in each class and children had the opportunity to work in their houses. Have a look at what we have being doing:

Here we are showing off our crowns made as an independent challenge.

 Beautiful art work children!



Pressure is on in view of our school pancake race...
"Let's flip the pancake"

 

Blue House had the privilege to taste some  rather tasty pancakes inspired by the royal garden  party Halibut Jackson went to in the story...

 

 Children worked in their houses and created different outfits for Halibut Jackson. Our was inspired by the sea.

 

 

 Once again Class 1 showed great team work in their houses and what skills flipping those pancakes.

 

Wednesday, the children were back in their own rooms and some of Class 1 heard a mutter of the fact that Blue house had had pancakes Tuesday afternoon, So guess what we made our own...

 

Thursday was World Book day and the children had an enjoyable day finding out who their friends had come dressed as.  We also enjoyed many book themed activities such as shared reading, data collection to create graphs of the children's favourite books and much more.  Class 1 also attempted their first big write, retelling the story of Halibut Jackson in their own words, fantastic writing everyone.  The children were lucky enough to have their chosen book to take home with them again this year.  Many thanks to Halesworth Book Shop again for supplying the books for us.

 

Friday, the children were back in their house teams to face the challenge of designing and making a costume that Halibut could put in his shop, wow!  Teamwork and cooperation were evident as some children created artwork and others designed and made the costume.  We even had a palace built from lego.

A rainbow suit that Halibut could wear...

 

After pooling design ideas, White House decided on a caveman themed design...

Making in progress... An earth coloured tabbard with grass/moss effects for camouflage.  A bone necklace and cave art for decoration.  Not forgetting a bear skin shrug and a bone hat.  Well done everyone who helped.

All houses then paraded their costumes in Golden Book assembly at the end of the day, well done to our models. 

 

To conclude, I think we can definitely say it really has been a 'brilliant book week'

 

Congratulations to Lilly N our Golden Book winner for your super big write.

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.