Cherries had a fantastic World Book Day! The children (and staff) dressed as book characters and we used paper plates to make them into a wide range of characters from Harry Potter to SpongeBob SquarePants.
This week we have had a bit of a mystery in Acorns! We found some ‘magic’ beans and golden eggs around our classroom!
After some discussion and detective work, we decided that it must have something to do with the story we are reading in English, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, but we still haven’t solved the mystery of where the items came from…… How very strange!
We shared our ideas and wrote some sentences about the story, and continued looking for clues to solve the mystery!
Birches were very excited about World Book Day! Some of us wanted to dress up, others preferred their usual clothes, but we all had a great day and loved looking at what everyone else was wearing!
This week in Acorns we have made a start on our new topic ‘Ready Steady Grow’. We will be learning about food and farming, plants and animals, and will be planting some seeds and observing how they grow.
We started to change our role-play area into a farm shop, and will continue to work on this over the next few weeks. Our first job was researching what types of things you would find in a farm shop, and we made a colourful bunting sign!
We also set up a small world farm where we can make up our own stories.
In English we read ‘The Enormous Turnip’, explored new vocabulary and then drew and labelled some root vegetables.
This week in Willows, we have been learning and talking about Internet Safety Week. We wrote down words relating to online safety and then worked as a class to create a poem about ‘Keeping Safe Online’. We performed our poem to everyone in our whole school assembly.
Sycamores enjoyed a fantastic visit to The Word in South Shields as part of our Computing curriculum. The children started the day with some Lego coding. They needed to use the app Spike to create a model called Hopper – following the step by step instructions to build the Lego. They then used the ipads to develop a code to instruct the robot model to move. The children were fantastic at this and showed real resilience and problem solving skills. After lunch, we explored more of The Word by visiting the Lego exhibition and also the library to read some books. All of Sycamores were amazing and fantastic representatives for our school. Well done everyone!
This week Chestnuts visited The Word in South Shields. We used lego essentials to build and code lego theme park rides. The children made them move, play music, light up and were great at debugging if a piece of code didn’t work. We also visited the lego exhibition and were amazed at how many pieces of lego were used to make each sculpture. Finally we visited the children’s library and enjoyed looking at different books.
Sycamores have been learning all about the conventions of play scripts. To support their understanding, they worked in groups to perform a play script using the different stage directions and character names. The children knew the parts they needed to read and used fantastic expression and actions when following the stage directions.
Every Friday afternoon, Acorns class invite parents and carers to join in with a story session. The children vote for their favourite book, and then we listen to the story with our grown-ups and choose a library book to take home.
It’s a fun way to involve families in our learning, and also helps the children to develop a love of reading for pleasure.
Last week we decided to add a little bit of creativity to our session, and as we had been exploring rainbows in our topic work, we did some rainbow colouring. Everyone had a great time, and it was a lovely way to end the week.
Comments and feedback from the adults is extremely positive:
“Thank you for inviting us in, it’s lovely to see what the children are doing.”
“It’s great seeing my child comfortable in her classroom environment with her friends.”
“There’s always a great atmosphere and it’s good to be involved in things at school.”
“The children are so happy and settled, I love coming in every week.”
This week Maples have came back smiling and eager to learn! We have worked hard in math’s, phonics, geography and RE but the most exciting task this week was getting to read or listen to stories in our new reading area we call The Book Nook. Maples all love a good story and we are always impressed with the efforts they make to read themselves.
