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Date: 14th Feb 2024 @ 3:34pm
On Monday and Tuesday, we celebrated Pancake Day! We read the book Mr Wolf's Pancakes, wrote shopping lists, read our recipe, and designed our own special pancake. To top it all off, we made pancakes on Tuesday and ordered toppings from the Toppings Cafe with Numicon payment. Our class loves pancakes! Yummy!
Date: 10th Feb 2024 @ 7:21am
In science, we have been learning about weather patterns and seasonal changes. This week we have been meterologists! We created our own wind socks to explore the direction of the wind. First we decorated cardboard to make the sock and then we attached tissue paper to the base as a means to test the direction of the wind. We had so much fun going outside to test our wind socks and had the perfect windy day to find out about the direction of the wind. We questioned if the wind direction changes and which direction the wind is blowing. We found out that the wind was travelling in one direction to the west.
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Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 4:30pm
This week in school we have been celebrating and learning about Children's Mental Health Week. We discussed what mental health means and did some activities over the week. We started the week discussing what mental health means and how we can have a good mental health. We discussed this year's theme 'My Voice matters' and what words or phrases we can use to help us talk and share our views.
We completed an activity where we were thinking about what makes us happy. At the end of the week we came to school dressed to express ourselves and did lots of mindfulness and yoga.
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 2:54pm
Today in Nursery, we celebrated children's mental health week by holding a 'dress to impress day'. The children were invited to come into school in something that expresses them. The children came dressed in their favourite clothes or national dress. In our circle time, they talked about the things that they like and their favourite food/toys and the clothes that they were wearing. They also learnt the makaton sign for 'favourite'.
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 2:43pm
This week, we heard the sad news that King Charles has not been very well.
We know that King Charles likes to look at wild flowers. We researched different wild flowers and chose our favourite. Next, we drew a picture of it and cut it out to add to our class 'Get Well Soon' card.
Miss Wilkinson bought a stamp, and she is going to post it to Buckingham Palace after school.
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 1:54pm
What a wonderful week of learning! Faizan says, "This week, we have been learning about fractions!".
Jahmai explained, "A non-unit fraction has a numerator which is not 1."
Isla said, "Unit fractions can only have a numerator which is 1."
Parker said, "We began the week by learning about unit fractions, and today we have learnt about non-unit fractions."
"For unit and non-unit fractions, they can have different denominator. The denominator is how many parts a whole has been split into."
"In our maths lessons, we have been learning about parts and wholes," explained Rayyan.
Natalie explained, "The numerator is the number on the top, which shows me how many parts I have, and the denominator tells me how many parts the whole unit has been split into."
Jaxson summarised this by saying, "the bigger the denominator, the smaller the part."
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 7:33pm
This term in science we have been looking at seasonal changes including weather. This week we learnt about different tools that can be used to measure weather. We discovered the job of a meteorologist and decided to make some wind socks and measure the direction the wind was blowing on Wednesday afternoon.
We worked really hard to create the wind socks and tested them out in the reception playground. We could see the direction the wind was blowing because the strips of coloured paper was flying in that direction.💨
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:31pm
For RE this week, we talked about what it means to be a good team. Some ideas we came up with were: helping others, being friends, using nice words, and saying sorry. In line with Mental Health Awareness Day on Friday, we made a new banner to celebrate our good teamwork!
Date: 5th Feb 2024 @ 8:23pm
Today we said goodbye to Miss Rawling who has been working in 6JT for over 13 weeks. We have loved having you in our class and wish you all the best for your future.
Date: 4th Feb 2024 @ 7:10am
On Friday for our topic work we learning about asking and answering questions. The classroom was set up with lots of old games that we had not seen before! This prompted us to question: how they were played? what were the rules? How do you set the game up? How do you win? What are the pieces for? We had lots of fun learning how to play the games and afterwards we expert players. We played marbles, Jacks, Shut the box, Pick up sticks and dominoes! Afterwards we were able to answer the questions and explain how to play all the old games. We also created a class block graph to find out which was our favourite old game.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 4:04pm
This week, as artists, we have been working really hard to create our own pictures of fantastic fish and super sea creatures!
Firstly, we wrote lists detailing the different sea creatures we saw after our visit to Sealife. Next, we looked closely at the details of the animals using information texts from our class library.
I think the children have done a FABULOUS job, have a look at some of our work below!
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 3:36pm
We started a new book this week in reception titled "Somebody Swallowed Stanley" about a plastic bag that is left in the ocean and swallowed by various sea creatures. At the end of the story, the plastic bag is reused by a kind boy into a kite. We made our very own Stanley kites like the boy in the story and took them outside to give them a try!
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 1:56pm
What a busy week! This week, Mrs Hughes wrote a letter in response to our letters, whereby we asked to either keep the mysterious egg that we found in the playground, or to get rid of it. Fortunately or unfortunately, for some people, Mrs Hughes decided that it would not be safe to keep the egg so Mr Jones took it to a special unit at Chester zoo. Have a look at her letter which is attached to this post.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 11:55am
This week in maths we have been exploring halving numbers. We used counters and bar models to represent a number and then explored halving the counters into two equal groups.
Threadbear has found his owner!!!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 10:23pm
A few weeks ago we found Threadbear in our classroom. We decided to write some 'Found' posters that would describe him really well and put them up in some trams. We hoped the owner of Threadbear would read these posters and would be reunited with them. Today we received a video message from the little girl who read our posters on the tram and rang the number to get Threadbear back to her.
Phew! It's a good job Threadbear has been found again!!!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 4:05pm
This week in maths, Nursery have been sorting, matching and comaparing lots of different fish using their knowledge of size, pattern, colour and shape. Please see the pictures below to see how they sorted the different fish. Can you notice how they have grouped them?
If you would like to read the story the children have been using for their maths learning at home. Please click on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2vlVHVnes
Fabulous Addition and Research Skills!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 2:33pm
This week, year 3 have been working extremely hard in their maths, reading and writing lessons.
We begun the week by completing our instructions on how to wash a woolly mammoth. Now we are confident on washing any large animal! We have then begun to complete some research for our next writing challenge - a non-chronological report on the Stone Age. We thought about all of the facts we have learnt this term, and then used different non-fiction books to find evidence to prove if our facts were true or not.
In maths, we have continued exploring addition. We begun the week by learning how to add 3-digit numbers through the method of redistribution. This was challenging at first, but we persevered until we felt confident. We have now moved on to learning about column addition. We have used our base 10 resources to help us, and have learnt the mathematical names for the different parts of addition number sentences (addend + addend = sum).
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm
This week we had our second art lesson with Mrs McAffer on Tuesday. We built on the skills of drawing and mark making by creating some backgrounds for our toy pictures that we created last week. We worked in four small groups to create four backgrpound settings - space, forest, city and under the sea.
We started by sharing ideas about what we can find in each setting on post it notes. Then we used our drawing skills to draw the different objects that would be found in each setting. We included some of the mark making skills such as hatching, cross-hatching and dots to fill in the shapes in the drawings. Finally we used oil pastels to colour in each setting. Each setting looked so affective and they will be used for a display in the KS1 shared area and in the classroom.
Date: 28th Jan 2024 @ 3:26pm
This week we have been learning how to use the plus and equal sign and to record number fact families within 10! We used Numicon and our knowledge of part and wholes to build the expressions. We could explain the representations to our partners and were very confident to explore the number facts to generate the families.
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Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 3:07pm
In Nursery this week we have been talking about different types of weather. We went outside to see if we could hear and feel the wind. We worked as a team and had lots of fun making objects to use on windy days. This is what Nursery said when we asked them about their learning:
"We made a wind stick"
"Wind sock"
"Kite"
"The wind snaps the branches"
"The leaves fall off"
We hope you enjoy looking at our photos!
Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 2:07pm
On Tuesday, we went to the River Medlock to discover new things about the water cycle because in our geography lessons, we are learning about how the water cycle works and how rivers are formed. When we went to the river, we saw a meander,(which is where the river curves). We also saw that this river bank had been created by humans, and that although rivers are usually physical features, there can sometimes be human features too (like with the river Medlock). The water was flowing even faster than usual because of the precipitation (that means rain!)
Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 1:27pm
Hello, we have had another busy week in 4AK!
We started off the week with trip to see the River Medlock to carry out our local river study. We then located the features of a river on a map and created a field sketch of the river. See the attached pictures!
In maths we continued to plot co-ordinates on a grid and create our own ploygons and oblong shapes on a grid. In English we have been looking at Kenning poems ready to write our own on Monday and continue to enjoy our class text ' The waterhorse'. In Science,we investigated how temperature affects evaporation and set up an experiment that we will observe for 14 days. We will then show our observations using a line graph. We continued with our sketchbooks practicing our new skill of 'see three shapes'. The children first drew an outline of their object, then added shadow and form for the final sketch. See attatched pictures.
Homework has been sent out- please complete and return by the 2nd February.
Have a lovely weekend!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 4:02pm
This week we took a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium to explore under the sea!
We saw many animals including stingrays, starfish, sharks, turtles, and some very interesting fish species.
All complete with a short workshop where we got to draw our own aquariums.
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 8:46pm
This week we worked with Mrs McAffer to learn more art skills. We focussed on drawing skills using different mark making patterns to show texture. We learnt about hatching and cross-hatching marks and used these in our drawings of teddy bears and toys with fur on them. We used the medium of pencils and black felt tip pens to create our drawings. They looked amazing!!!
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 4:19pm
This week Reception took a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium to explore under the sea! We saw many animals including stingrays, starfish, sharks, turtles, and some very interesting fish species. All complete with a short workshop where we got to draw our own aquariums.
