Week Beginning 16.4.2018

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Welcome Back. We hope you all enjoyed the Easter break and have come back refreshed! At last the weather seems to be cheering up and we can look forward to our Summer Term.

We started the week spending as much time as possible outdoor to make the most of the new resources and the sun. Children engaged in different activities.

'If you want to balance you put your arms out like that'.

A busy kitchen with cakes and soups being prepared.

'A fairy village with a stream and a pond'.

 

As you know our new topic in PE is 'Playground Games' so today we started off by learning 'Please Mr Crocodile' and 'Moving Statues'.
The first one is played by selecting a child to be the crocodile. The children ask the crocodile permission to cross the Golden River and the crocodile has to think of something like: 'Only if you are wearing something red' or 'only if you can count to 100' etc.
In 'Moving Statues' one player stands at the front with their back to the others counting quietly to 10. When the player has counted to 10 they turn around quickly. The players should stop moving and stand still. anyone caught moving is out.

 

 Please Mr Crocodile

'Only if you are wearing a black jumper'

 

 

'Moving Statues'

Counting quietly  

 

 

                                                                  

More time was spent outdoor in maths where children had to find numbers called out by the teacher and stand by them.  They then worked in teams and used the large building bricks to  put represent the number called.



                                           
Great team work! Some children look for the number, whilst others fetched the bricks and some checked they had the right amount of bricks.

 

 

Back inside we have been working hard with our independent challenges, such as this one where we had to label the different parts of Little Red Riding Hoods body.

 

 

We spent lots of time showing great cooperation skills this week, glad to be back with our friends, just look at this fantastic volcano we made, four sets of hands and creative ideas and THIS was the end result.

 

 

 

Finally, we are still clearing up after all the building work and we have taken advantage of the sunshine to soap and scrub our number lines and alphabet boards.  This was a tough job but we had several fantastic helpers. Thank you...

 

 

Congratulations to Lydia, our Golden Book winner this week for being so helpful and for having super listening skills in class all week.

 

Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine everyone!

Week Beginning 26.3.2018

So we have reached the end of yet another busy term.
This week we have written the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' in our very own little book. After painting the front cover we sequenced the days of the week in the book and then wrote the story. Take a look:

Our lovely front covers.

Beautiful writing.

 

 

We mustn't forget about yoga. This was our last session and we explored the Tree Pose.

This pose is very good for us as it helps with posture, keeping focused and balance.

We found a spot and stood up straight, gently bringing one foot onto the other leg whilst pressing our palms in the middle of the chest.  

It proved tricky to begin with but after a few attempts we all got to keep our balance for a few seconds.

                                                            
                           Well done little yogis!

 

 

What an end to the week...

 

The grand opening of our new play equipment on the back field and a chance to use it-HOORAY!

 

 

 

An Easter Bonnet parade for the whole Key Stage, with AMAZING entries, well done everyone.  Our class winner was Lydia with Martha in the Runner Up position.

 

Then to a school tradition....Egg Rolling.

 

 

 

Lovely behaviour from everybody, although there were some tired legs when we returned to school.

 

 

Finally to finish, we made our own hot cross buns and baskets to put them in.  We were also lucky enough to fill them with chocolate eggs from the Friends of Wenhaston and a special egg from Angus who took them off his Easter Bonnet to share with the class - Thanks Angus!

 

Have a fantastic rest everyone, you all deserve it and we will look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks to start the Summer term.

 

 

 

Week Beginning 19.3.2018

 

We started this rather COOL  week with the story of  'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Most children knew the story and contributed to it with their knowledge of butterflies, life cycles and healthy/unhealthy foods.

 

Children made caterpillars using play dough and plenty of creativity. 

 

 

 Some felt very inspired and drew lovely pictures of the caterpillar.

 

 

We are sure some of are wondering which new yoga pose we have learnt this week....?

Well we are please to inform you that we started the week with a 'You are Great!' pose. In lotus position children closed their eyes and thought of positive things to say about themselves. All children felt comfortable sharing out loud their thoughts and pampering their little ego...well done Class1!

Following the positive vibe of 'You are Great!' we then explored the Windmill pose which involved connecting our left side of the body to the right side. We drew an imaginary line that crossed the midline of our body and helped our left side reach the right side by touching the opposite foot to the hand.

 

 



We have ventured out into our new play area for the first time this week and are feeling very lucky to have such lovely things to play with.  We still have many finishing touches to add but could wait no longer to go and 'test out' what is out there.

Thursday was Sport Relief day in school and what a fantastic day it was... Thanks to everyone that baked and bought cakes for our cake sale which made nearly £70 for the worthy cause.

An even bigger thanks to Mr Knights for arranging a super PE session.  Keeping in with the Sport Relief billion step challenge, we tried to complete enough steps to climb the Eiffel tower in the time we had, we worked in teams so that if we were tired we could tag the next team member to take over.

We finished with an extra challenge; a water relay, using only spoons to fill the cups!  A fantastic effort from everyone well done.

 

Congratulations to Lydia who won the Cupcake category in our Bake Off competition with these football buns.

 

 

Have a super weekend everyone.

 

Remember if you are making a bonnet that they need to be in school by next Wednesday for judging ahead of Thursdays presentation.

 

Week beginning 12th March.

What another busy week, the children have been busy learning and writing poetry, learning how to apply their addition skills to solve money problems as well as doing their bit for the community by playing their part in the 'Big Spring clean up!'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Busy work but well done everyone and thank you to all of the parents that came to join us.

In maths we have been working out how many 10p's we need to make our larger 2 digit numbers...

 

Friday afternoon we had a little quiet time together in the book corner together after our big 'Friday tidy'.  Well done Thomas who read one of our Dr Zeus books to the whole class!

 

 

Finally we cannot forget to mention the further developments in the outdoor area....

The view from the window, as you can see it is looking rather fantastic!

 

Well done to Angus; our Golden Book winner this week for brilliant maths and being able to explain your answers so well.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.