Cherries braved the rain and visited North Marine Park this week for some fun! They showed great social skills, sharing skills, turn taking and good behaviour when out in the community.
This week Cherries had their own Roman day in class. They dressed up as Romans wearing armour and tunics!
They designed and painted their own shields, then marched around the yard to scare away enemies.
They played some Roman inspired games.
All finished with a Roman feast.
Cherries and Willows have worked very hard building their greenhouses over the past few weeks in DT. They finished them this week by using cling film to create the walls, and left a doorway ready to put something inside. They also tested the strength of different materials and whether they were waterproof, discussing other suitable materials they could have used.
Cherries and Pines visited Marsden beach with Tides of Change to build a shelter, search for sea life and play some sand games. Even though the weather was very wet and rainy we didn’t let that deter us from finding some crabs, jellyfish, periwinkles and sea anemones in the rock pools. Discussing fossils, the danger of the cliffs, finding sea glass and digging in the sand.
A very wet, but great visit!
This week, Willows and Cherries began building their mini greenhouses. Using hot glue (with adult support!) and lolly sticks, they created two squares and then added the frame ready for the roof to be put on next week.
Take a look at them so far…
Cherries and Pines enjoyed some integrated child initiated learning in the sun today. They were excellent at sharing resources, waiting their turn and respecting boundaries for children who didn’t want to get wet.
As part of Cherries and Willows DT topic, greenhouses, the children were building models with spaghetti and plasticine and were posed the question is spaghetti good or bad to build with and why? The children agreed spaghetti was a bad choice as it’s too weak and fragile and the models fell and broke easily. In the coming weeks we are going to focus on strengthening structures to build our final product.
As part of our English work this week the children in Cherries have been writing diary entries. They pretended they were alive in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted and had some excellent ideas about what they would have seen, felt and heard. Take a look at some of our diary entries.
This week we have continued our English work using the story Escape form Pompeii and children used iPads to research facts to complete a fact file. They found lots of artefacts that were preserved in Pompeii, including people, a dog and buildings.
In Geography they have been using map skills to locate countries on a world map, including Italy, to link to our Emperors and Empires topic.
As part of the coronation we researched King Charles’ robe and designed our own with Willows. They made crowns and flags and enjoyed coming into school wearing red, white and blue ready for the coronation party.
To start our new topic of Emperors and Empires, Cherries read the story, Escape From Pompeii. In the story Mount Vesuvius erupts and this links well with the volcanoes the children constructed last half term. We first annotated the story by things we could see that linked to the Romans and the past. We then demonstrated how a volcano erupts by using water, washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. The children loved watching the “lava” erupt out of their volcanoes.
