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Our trip to Southport Eco Centre!
Date: 6th Feb 2020 @ 11:00am
Yesterday, we had an absolutely amazing time at Southport Eco Centre learning even more about The Stone Age. There were lots of different activities for us to participate in and we had so much fun! I would like to say well done to everybody in both 3RH and 3LF for their FANTASTIC behaviour throughout the whole day. Darren and Julie were so impressed with Ravensbury and commented on how well behaved and amazing you all were!
Date: 5th Feb 2020 @ 10:55am
This morning we used the pictures and dressing up props to talk about what happened in the different parts of the story, 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'
Can you work out which parts of the story we are talking about by looking at the clothes we are wearing?
Spellings: Week beginning 03/02/2020
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 3:36pm
Here are your spellings for this week.
Try to practise them using some of the techniques we have used in class!
1. doubt
2. island
3. lamb
4. solemn
5. thistle
6. knight
7. gnat
8. climb
9. sword
10. knitting
11. numb
12. wren
13. fasten
14. honest
15. butcher
16. mechanic
17. answer
18. scheme
19. whole
20. nestle
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 10:09am
This week in writing, 2HR are exploring China to learn about the famous landmarks and culture. Each day we are pretending to visit a place or take part in an activity to experience the Chinese cultures. Next week we will use these experiences to write a postcard for our Big Write.
On Monday we pretended to visit The Great Wall of China and learned lots of interesting facts about it. In groups, we then constructed our own Great Wall of China using modelling bricks. Afterwards the groups of children presented their models to the class with interesting facts that they had learned during the lesson. The children throughly enjoyed building their Great Walls of China!
On Tuesday we researched information about The Terracotta Army. We found out some amazing facts and created a life-sized Terracotta Warrior to display all the facts that we had found out!
"It took 7000 people to make the warriors!" James
"There were 8000 warriors made in total" Dawood
On Wednesday the class explored the city of Shanghai. We learned about the famous landmarks, things to do and see. We pretended to be tourists taking photos of what we saw on the Ipads, then used them to create a picture collage.
On Thursday we role-played a eating food in a Chinese restaurant and we tasted some Chinese foods such as spring rolls, sweet and sour sauce and blackbean sauce. We challenged ourselves to eat with chopsticks and discussed the flavours of the foods. The children throughly enjoyed sampling the foods and some even said they would want to go to a real restaurant regualrly to eat Chinese food.
Chinese New Year Class Assembly
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 9:57am
2HR delivered a brilliant performance to the school and their parents last Friday. They performed 'The Great Race' story to explain how the Chinese calendar began, shared a presentation of how Chinese New Year is celebrated and even performed a Chinese Dragon dance!
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 9:51am
In year two this week we have been learning all about the Terracotta Army.
The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang was afraid of death so decided to build an army of warriors to protect him in the afterlife. The Terracotta Army was built thousands of years ago but in 1974 farmers discovered one of the warriors when they were trying to dig a well.
Today the Terracotta Army is visited by lots of people. We decided to make our own Terracotta Army in our classroom!
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 9:39pm
4JB have been enjoying learning about the Tudors in Connected Curriculum this term!
Last week we learnt about the six wives of Henry VIII, and compared the different lifestyles of rich and poor Tudor people.
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 9:27pm
Congratulations to Friday's Behaviour Star... Daniel! Well done for a great effort last week!
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 3:55pm
In design technology, we researched, designed, made and evaluated our own Stone Age homes. Here are our final designs.
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 2:16pm
This week we have been learning all about the Great Wall Of China. Did you know that the Great Wall Of China was built over 2000 years ago? Prisoners and slaves were made to build the wall as a punishment! It took over 1000 years to build.
We had a go at building the Great Wall Of China ourselves. Luckily it didn’t take us over 1000 years and wasn’t a punishment, it was actually quite fun!
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:39pm
Today in our reading lesson, we started our new book called 'The birth of the Gods.'
Before we began our reading journey, we shared our predicitons on how the Gods were born. Year 5 were very excited to do this with snowballs! They wrote their ideas down on a scrap piece of paper, scrunched them into a ball, and then threw them at Miss Brookes!
We unravelled our snowballs, and shared our ideas. Some of us guessed correctly! The Gods were created by Gaia and Uranus, who were the Earth and the Sky.
Outstanding awards form week beginning 27-1-2020
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:24pm
A huge well done to this weeks outstanding,
Elijah for outstanding work on time and big maths
Emmanuel for outstanding attitude towards his learning.
Jigsaw: Healthy Body & Healthy Mind
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 8:17am
As part of our new Jigsaw topic, 5HW have been looking at the dangers of smoking on the human body. Have a look at the amazing diagram drawn by Taissia, Lilly-Anne and Alissia.
Date: 2nd Feb 2020 @ 6:29pm
This week we have been reading the story 'lost in the toy museum'. The director of toys has sent us a letter to ask for our help, all of his toys are lost and he needs to keep a register to make sure all of the toys are up and ready for the museum visitors in the morning.
This week we have been adding the toys together as well as subtracting the toys to see how many are left. We have been using tens frames, bead strings and part whole models to help us become faster and more confident when adding and subtracting.
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 11:06pm
We are learning how to write a recount in our English lessons. Our recount is to tell people all about what we did during our Chinese workshop. We looked at a WAGOLL - what a good one looks like and decided together what our steps to success would be.
We said that we would need:
- write in order
- use time connectives - first, next, then, after that, during, soon after, finally
- use conjunctions
- write in the past tense
- add opinion and feelings
- capital letters for names of people and places
I can't wait to read them!
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 7:27pm
On Monday we found 3 boxes in our classroom. We became 'Super Helper Detectives' and began to look for clues inside and under the boxes.
We found pictures of three boys, a book and a letter from someone called 'Birt.' After some detective work and completing some reading challenges we found out that the three boys were best friends who loved to play with boxes. However, one of the boys became unfriendly and we started to think about how to be a good friend in our circle time sessions.
Listen to the narrated version of the story using the link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRmd2DWjiA
Parent Vocabulary Stay and Play
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 7:10pm
This morning Reception children invited Parents/Carers into our classroom to show how we learn new vocabulary linked to our topic or story of the week. It was great to see so many parents getting involved in the activities. We started by teaching parents our Word Rap and then had a range of activities that supported children in learning vocabulary with some links to our phonics teaching.
Why don't you do the word rap at home using the link below...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428l9PIED_I
The words we have learnt so far are...
flickering, belonged, rescued, dwellers, pirate, dragon slayer, astronaunt, dragged, crunched, cracked and pirate.
Looking forward to our next Stay and Play next half term!!
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 6:57pm
It was lovely to see so many parents at the vocabulary workshop in Reception this afternoon.
The children used their phonic knowledge to read words, some words were really tricky but they didn't give up. Everyone deserved their smelly stickers (even the grownups!).
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 4:18pm
Here are some pictures from our Stay and Play sessions today, which were focused on vocabulary. Children all participated in exciting language-focused activities with the help of some of our parents!
Attached is the link to our Word Rap which we use everytime we introduce new vocabulary to the children! Try it at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428l9PIED_I
Thank you to all parents who came along today! The children loved it!.jpeg)
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Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 4:02pm
Alisha received the learning award this week for her fantastic ‘can do’ attidude in all of her lessons. Oscar won the behaviour star for making good choices about his behaviour and encouraging other children in the class to do the same.
Well done Alisha and Oscar!
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 4:00pm
In year 4, we have been learning about the Tudors. This week we started a new text in our reading and writing lessons. We have been reading , ‘Tudor Boy Spy -The Secret Diary of Thomas Snoop’ and we have really been enjoying it. We found out that the word ‘bobolyn’ is a Tudor word for idiot!!
Speaking Superheroes receive a challenge!
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 2:59pm
Today we received a mystery parcel! Around the outside there was a letter and in the letter there was a challenge. The Superheroes told us they knew we were Speaking Superheroes but so everybody knew this we should make capes. On our capes we drew pictures and symbols and our teachers wrote lots of interesting words. Our grown-ups helped us think of these words when we were playing with them this morning.
When we were making the measures cape one of the children matched the Bears from our cottage to the symbols on the cape. 'This one's tiny like the tiny words' Daddy Bear is MASSIVE like that one.'
Our capes look amazing! We are going to use them when we are playing with our friends in the classroom.
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:58pm
Notice for Parents/Carers:
Remember to come in to class tomorrow during morning jobs time to talk to your children who are our 'Speaking Superheroes'. They've been working really hard to develop size and shape and texture vocabulary over the last few weeks.
After talking to you they're going to complete a challenge fit for a superhero. Can you guess what it might be?
Watch this space...
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:53pm
Would you like to come on a hunt with us?
Today in school we found a book that had been hidden in the classroom. We've been exploring our indoor and outdoor classrooms lots recently but we'd not seen this book before. Have you?
The book is by an author called Michael Rosen and we already love this book. To watch the author read it Click here
Walking through the grass and stumbling through the forest!
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:38pm
In our garden we found some more places to explore. We had to be careful that we didn't fall over! It's tricky walking around logs that look like trees.
All of these places we discovered today made us wonder why. We've been learning about bears, so what could the connection be?
'bear, forest, grass, water, snow, mud'
Do you have any ideas?
