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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?
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 10:33am
Year 6 have been looking at the language of directions. We have been following directions to find places around the school and writing our own directions for other people to follow.
Ask us for directions next time you see us !
Exploring settings... Outdoors!
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 3:00pm
We went on a settings hunt in the outdoor area... we found trays of water and a picture of a river!
We dipped our fingers in the water and gently moved our fingers through it "splash splash!"
"I can make waves, I moved my arms to make waves."
We looked at the picture of the river "The water looks deep!"
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 2:33pm
We found the tray with signs all over it that said, 'Please do not touch.' There were wellies and shoes and aprons too. We had to work out how we could play with the toys without touching.
Can you think how to do it?
Look at the pictures to see how we were able to play without getting messy. The children said, 'It's sticky and muddy and it's yucky.' 'Stick, squash.' 'Squish, squelch.'
Exploring Our Classroom - It's snowy!
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 2:21pm
We're going on a settings hunt. We're going to find new ones. Tiptoe, tiptoe...
Look what we found today in our classroom! The children touched the snowy shaving foam, moved it around and then they told us what it feels like. 'Snow like cream' ' Round and round. Wooooooo' 'Squish, squash' ' I think it's like shampoo'
It's messy playing with shaving foam so you have to wear an apron and remember, 'It gets on your hands and it comes through your fingers. Then you have to wash your hands.'
Where did they live in the Stone Age?
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 3:09pm
In the Connected Curriculum, we are making our own Stone Age homes. To start the design process we collected ideas. Here are some of the ideas we collected. Come back soon to see our final designs.
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:11pm
We were busy researching Stone Age houses for our own designs in Connected Curriculum today. It was lots of fun using PicCollage for ourselves!
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:00pm
This week in maths we are learning written and mental methods for addition of money. Here is a website to help you practise at home.
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 12:59pm
Today in English, we used our rally robin technique to generate features of a newspaper report. We are going to be writing our own version over the next couple of weeks and this technique helped us refresh our memories on the features needed to make a good article.
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 12:58pm
Well done to 4AR's learning and behaviour stars last week.
Tia won our learning award on Monday for producing some fantastic holiday homework. She displayed lots of great learning skills such as creativity and perseverance to make her 3D model of the Earth.
Jake won our behaviour star for working incredibly hard in all of his lessons. He has pushed himself to share his ideas with the class and he has worked on his presentation.
We are very proud of them both!
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 10:39am
Year 5 and 6 maths group have been looking at the language of time.
They have been playing games to practise using the new words.
Do you know how many years there are in a century and a decade ? Ask our maths group superstars for the answer !
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 9:00am
On Tuesday 21st January 2020 we had two special visitors into school called Michaela and James. Michaela taught us how to do a dragon dance because we have been learning all about China and Chinese New Year.
I didn't actually know how to do a dragon dance but I do now! Tiwan
I enjoyed it because I really like to dance and it was a new style of dancing for me. Millie
I enjoyed it because I had fun. Neila
Then we went to a ceramic plate painting workshop with James. He taught us how to paint a plate with a dragon and it said Happy New Year on it!
I enjoyed it because we got to paint dragons and we painted a border around it. Payton
My favourite part was when we painted the body of the dragon. Mubaraq
I enjoyed it because we had to paint very neatly so you could still the dragon. Lacey
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 9:00am
Year 1 have been reading The Magical Toy Box and we've been practising reading and using many of the great verbs we found in the story.
Date: 26th Jan 2020 @ 11:17pm
We have been busy using our new vocabulary strategies in maths as well as English- words such as -perpendicular lines, parallel lines, bisect, interior angles and diagonals- we used stepping stones to work out the meaning of each word and then we practised sorting 2D shapes into carrol diagrams using these words on the ipads. If you want to check out the game and practise at home log into maths frame and play!
Date: 26th Jan 2020 @ 11:06pm
This week we are practising all aspects of telling and calculating with time.
What is analogue time? What is digital time? How do you read, say and use each type of time?
Use this Maths Frame game to practise all aspects of time. Remember to log in using our school password – check with your teacher if you have forgotten.
Click on the picture below:
Date: 25th Jan 2020 @ 8:26am
Miss Wendt challenged 5HW to create a group 'freeze frame' to depict a different stage of a human life. Each group had to keep their stage secret, MIss Gallery and the rest of the class had to guess each one!
Can you guess?! The different stages are newborn, toddler, child, adolescent, adult and senior. Which image matches each stage?
