This week the children have been reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children were amazing at sequencing and retelling the story using props. In art the children used hand and finger prints to create a caterpillar.
Today we did lots of activities for World Maths Day. In English we looked at some counting and number stories, then made our own number books.
In Maths, we explored money and set up a class shop, writing our own price tags and then buying things with real money.
In Art we found out about the artist Paul Klee, who created abstract art using colour and shape. We then made our own ‘Castle and Sun’ art work.
We also played the game ‘Toyshop Money’ on TopMarks Maths on the iPads. We had a great day and really enjoyed linking maths to all areas of the curriculum.
Counting Books
Paul Klee ‘Castle and Sun’ art
Writing price tags for our class shop
For World Maths Day Cherries looked at symmetry and linked this within an art lesson to create symmetrical ammonites.
In DT Cherries have been constructing volcano models and this week we invited parents and carers into class to paint the volcanoes with their children. The children thought carefully about their designs and applied their extensive knowledge of volcanoes, such as saying their volcano is extinct, so painting no lava onto it. They then drew or painted designs onto rocks and showed their families some of our great resources in Cherries class. A fantastic afternoon and a huge thank you to all parents and carers for your time to come and partake in these activities with us.
For Mother’s Day, Willows made some fantastic cards!
Miss Tod loves avocados so we designed some cards with that theme in mind…. They all look brilliant!
Happy Mother’s Day!
In art, Chestnuts made beautiful Mother’s Day Cards.
We think they look amazing.
In our Frozen Kingdoms topic we have been looking at Inuit art. In the last few weeks we have been printing, making stencils, sketching and blending colours.
This week we created our animal soap carvings inspired by the Inuit people who have produced many incredible pieces of art using soapstone.
I think you can all agree they look pretty amazing…plus our classroom smells amazing!
Mr Graham
This week in Acorns we have been thinking about our new topic – Ready, Steady, Grow.
We will be learning about where our food comes from, finding out about farms, exploring plants and animals and how they grow and change, and hopefully doing some food preparation and tasting!
‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ by Vivian French.
We explored some of the vegetables in the story using touch, sight, smell and taste.
Where does food come from?
We look forward to finding out answers to our questions and learning lots of new things!
Today in Birches the boys carefully sketched drawings of some flowers and plants. 
In Oaks this week we finalised our Arctic animals stencils and used them to make prints. We used a variety of colours and used the same techniques as many Inuit artists.
The results look amazing!
Mr Graham
