RCW: Blog items

Can we stop the snow from feeling so cold?

Date: 26th Mar 2019 @ 7:42pm

We made good use of the cold and the snowy weather in January by carrying out an experiment. We created a snow castle outdoors and then scooped up the snow into the tray. After touching it, we realised we wouldn't be able to play for long unless we found gloves to warm us up. Funnily enough, woollen gloves got wet and our hands felt really cold, but washing up gloves helped keep our fingers warmer and dry. 

It's Snowing!

Date: 26th Mar 2019 @ 7:34pm

The first snow fell in January during the morning mat time. We were so excited we just had to go outside, get our coats on and stand in the cold air as the snow fell on our coats and noses and hair...

 

Pancake Creations

Date: 26th Mar 2019 @ 7:03pm

On Shrove Tuesday we made the batter, asked Miss Conway to cook them so we could play outside in the sunshine and then created our own toppings. Most of us thought they were yummy! We did say MOST of us laugh

 

 

Red Nose Day 2019

Date: 26th Mar 2019 @ 6:29pm

We had lots of fun joining in the danceathon and raising money for people who need our help 

 

Happy New Year!

Date: 26th Mar 2019 @ 6:16pm

We're really looking forward to working on our New Year's Resolutions. Pop in to class to see what we are going to be working hard to achieve in 2019

 

Remembrance Day Centenary

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:30pm

To mark this important occasion and to understand more about what Remembrance Day is, we have been finding out about the symbol we see all around us, the poppy.

We started our day looking at old photos of soldiers and then used our 100 square to try ti understand how long 100 years is. We are only 4 or 5 years old. Count to 5. That doesnt take very long does it? Try counting to 46 ( our teacher is that old!).  That took a lot longer. Imagine how long 100 years is. "WOWWWW", said William, "That's really really long, a long time"

We then created poppies and pictures using our own choice of materials before standing together holding hands to show respect for all soldiers, past and present. It was a calm and thoughtful time for us today.

 

 

Diwali

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:21pm

Following on from learning about lots of different celebrations, today we began to learn about Diwali.

We learned about the story of Rama and Sita and  how they fought the 10 headed demon Ravana. As they were a long way from home in the story, Hindu people light diva lamps and put them in their windows to guide them safely home. Here are picture of the indepndent work we did to learn more.

Here is a link to Watch the story of Rama and Sita

Can you guess what we are making to guide Rama and Sita home?

Step 1: Make a pinch pot and add a pattern inside using tools.

 

(Spoiler Alert: They may be lighting up your windowsill very soon!)

Bonfire Night Celebrations

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:13pm

This week we have been creating poems, printing and painting shape pictures and making bonfire crafts for Bonfire Night. Such a busy time learning about celebrations this half term!

On Bonfire Night, at five o'clock I bought rocket and it went whoosh, pop, crackle, bang,sizzle.

BE SAFE AND ENJOY THE CELEBRATIONS 

 

Hubble Bubble Halloween Potions

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:07pm

The spooky fun continued this week as we created halloween potions and held relay races to explore and compare capacity cauldrons. There were a lot of witches and spiders in the school today!

 

Apple Bobbing Halloween Fun

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:02pm

To learn about how people celebrate Halloween, we had lots of fun bobbing for apples this afternoon. It's very tricky and we needed to be patient and also very careful. Holding the apple in your teeth at the end was both funny and very rewarding. 

GO NOODLE!

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:57pm

You don't know about Go Noodle? Where have you been? Even our grown-ups come in for a physical session to start our day on Friday Challenge Day. By doing Go Noodle activities we help to make our minds and bodies grow up healthy and happy. 

To sign up for free click here and get earning rewards for your champ.

  

 

Sports Day 2018

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:44pm

After our first sports day was cancelled due to the fabulous Manchester weather, we finally got to show off our physical skills to our parents this morning. We have been practicing with our teachers so we could run the relay, complete the obstacle course, play the parachute game and ride the bike track using imagination and skill and of course doing so safely. Oh and don't foret the amazing fun run our adults joined us for at the end! Afterwards, we invited our grown-ups in to cool down in front of the whiteboard with a mindfulness Go Noodle session.

Find fun indoor active sessions and mindfulness sessions click here to sign up for free.

 

Choosing Autumn Crafts

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:35pm

When we are learning, our teachers think it important that we have choices about how we create representations of objects we are learning about. This week we have we spent time choosing from lots of different craft activities. We could choose to create a leaf owl, a popcorn tree, a harvest hen and a clay hedgehog. Some of us chose to make all of these things! We also decided it would be good for us to display some our our work too, on the seasons board in Miss Wolfenden's classroom

  

Sean the Super City Coach

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:26pm

On Fridays we are very lucky to have Sean visiting us. He plays games and helps us to use our imaginations to improve our Physical Development skills. The best bit is that even if it's raining, we don't stop our sessions because of our awesome new Physical area. Take a look at some of the games we played today. 

 

Autumn Salad

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:21pm

To continue our healthy food choices, today we created our own Autumn Salad by tasting and talking about what we had eaten. We were very adventurous, trying new and interesting foods that we don't usually eat at home. This is an important part of our learning - to try new things and have a go.

  

Yummy Harvest Soup

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:09pm

Today we created a yummy and healthy favourite - Harvets Soup! Using a variety of seasonal vegetables and some seriously safe knife skills we cut, cooked and then ate our very own creation. You can see how much we loved it.  If you want to know how, just pop in to class and ask us laugh

 

Ready for Reading

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 6:59pm

We'd just like to say a great big thank you to all of our amazing parents who came in this week to find out how to help us read at home.  We love to read and now we will be able to share our love of reading very soon at home too. 

Can you guess what we are making in our classroom?

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:32am

We have been really busy today! We have been……………

Making pom poms!

We have been making characters. What character can you see?

What do you thinking we are making?

Have a guess ! Come and have a look in the classroom and find out!

Did you guess correctly?

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:30am

Come and have a look at our wonderful Imaginary travel shop!

The children have really enjoyed playing in here today!

Why don’t you ask them where they travelled to and how they got there.

Go noodle.

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:28am

The children really enjoyed singing and dancing along to the go noodle songs. Have a go at home! https://www.gonoodle.com

Look at our beautiful portraits.

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:27am

This week we have been painting beautiful self-portraits.

1, 2, 3 go!

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:26am

We have made an obstacle course in our reception playground and have been preparing for sport’s day. We love climbing, crawling and jumping!

Getting fit!!

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:24am

We have been exercising this week in preparation for sports day.

First week in Reception!!

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:24am

We have started in our new classes this week and during dinner time we can now pick our own dinners!

‘Party Rock’ phonics word match game

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 8:23am

“You listen to the music and dance and walk around the carpet and when the music stops you stop at a word and read it.  You hold the picture up and whoever has got the word gets the picture”

What a great explanation of our game. We dance to party rock but you can choose your own music

‘We create, We explore,


We care, We soar’

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