Week beginning 13.3.17

What beautiful springy weather we have had this week! We loved the sun shining
 and spent a lot of time outdoors.  We have enjoyed reading a new book titled 'Jack Frost' by Kazuno Kohara. This is a story of a boy who meets Jack Frost and experiences his wintery magic until one day the pair saw a snowdrop...time for Jack to go and let Spring begin...
Take a look at our week unfolding starting from us making chocolate hedgehogs.......

Stirring the melted chocolate.

Mixing it all with cornflakes.

Assembling the hedgehogs.

 

 

 

 

Adding all those very important details.

Ta-da! The hedgehogs are looking at you...

Playing games in PE under the sunshine. Can you go through the hoop without breaking the link??

 

Our Class swap on Thursday this week was all change when we read to our partners for the first time instead of them reading to us.  Class 4 were most impressed with our reading skills and helped us change our books.  They were also fantastic listeners, thanks.

 

 

In maths we have spent all week learning about money and how we can use it to pay for things,  look at this fantastic work; paying for things at the toyshop.

 

Spring is well and truly here this week as we discovered when we became 'Spring Detectives.'  We took a stroll around Blackheath common looking for evidence of spring.  What a fantastic way to end all of the winter themed learning we have done over the past few weeks.

Pretty daffodils.
 



Purple periwinkles.

 

We then used all of this new information we had gathered to create a fantastic collaborative piece of artwork for our weatherproof board in our outdoor area, well done everyone, super teamwork.

 

 

Congratulations to Mary; our Golden book winner this week for your super money work in maths.

Week Beginning 6.3.2017

This week we have continued to work on the story of 'Halibut Jackson'. Children have learnt about making still images by looking closely at some of the pictures in the book. With some friends they made up their own scene and shared it with the rest of the class.

 

He had a suit he wore to the Park.

 
 
 
 

Well done children. We can see a flowery park and Halibut Jackson is  trying to blend in...

 

 

 

 

He had a suit he wore to the shop.

"We chose red to blend in with the apples and purple to blend in with the customers'.

 

 

 

 

 

Some creative work developed in the construction area where some children responded to the challenge and built a palace for the queen and king.

 

We welcomed a new friend to our class this week, here we are making new friends.

 

 

Our Halibut Jackson work continued in maths and here we are pulling number sentences from  his hat to solve.

We were subtracting so we chose whether we wanted to count back on our fingers, use a number line or the counting bears to help us.

 

 
We also fitted in some more baking; making scones for Halibut's party at the palace-yummy!

 

As well as all of our independent challenges too, here we are making tricky words with letter stamps and play dough.

 

Congratulations to John Paul and Eleanor our two Golden book winners today.

 

Remember your road safety colouring competition entries, hand them back next week.

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.