From the 24th-28th May the school celebrated World Book Week.
As world Book Day happened whilst the children were learning from home we decided to dedicate a whole week to reading!
The children took part in lots and lots of fun activities.
We had an extreme reading competition across the school and we had a lucky winner from Willows.
Extreme Reading!
Design your own bookmark.
Create a comic strip.
Freeze framing.
Bookmark designing.
Bookmark designing.
FREEZE!
1..2..3.. Freeeeeeze.
Sycamores researched different animal skin prints and then created their own printing blocks to recreate similar patterns.
We then added a black silhouette of our chosen animal.
We think out art work looks amazing!
The topic for this term is Animal Adventures and the theme for the last two weeks has been all about the sea. The class story that we have been reading is a book called Under the Sea by Anna Milbourne. We have explored this book using colourful semantics to create sentences and used pictures from the book to sequence the story. We have also sounded and blended CVC words and sorted into rhyming strings. In maths we have completed lots of counting activities and we have added 1 to a number. In science we sorted the animals into the three categories of farmyard, minibeasts and sea creatures. We have also labelled the key body parts of a shark. In art our topic is to complete pieces of artwork using the collage method. We have created a turtle using two shades of green, jellyfish with the stain glassed effect and created a fabulous rainbow fish using brightly coloured sequins to complete the amazing Under the Sea display. The children have absolutely loved learning about the sea and all of the sea creatures.
This half term in Cherries our topic has been Summertime. We have been learning all about hot and cold items and packing a suitcase for a hot and cold holiday. We also kept a weather chart for a week looking outside to see the weather every morning and afternoon (it was very rainy!)
We have read the story The Messy Magpie which all about recycling which linked to our Science topic of materials.
In DT we have practised cutting different fruit and made a banana loaf which we all had a try of.
In PE we have been using tennis rackets to practise balance and aiming.
This week we have been reading the story of ‘Rosie Revere, Engineer’ in literacy. Our STEM challenge was to design and build something that Rosie could travel in down a zipwire. We had to make sure that a) Rosie stayed in her ‘vehicle’ all the way and b) that our design had to travel independently down the zipwire. We had great fun testing out our ideas!
The topic for this term is Animal Adventures and the theme for last two weeks has been Mad About Minibeasts. The class story that we have been reading is The Very Lazy Ladybird. We have explored this book using colourful semantics to create sentences and used pictures from the book to sequence the story. In maths we have completed lots of ladybird counting activities and we have related the number of dots to numerals. We have also made ladybirds using 2D shapes. In science we have labelled a ladybird, sorted insects into categories of legs and no legs. In art we have created a ladybird collage with a stained glass effect. In geography we have been learning about people who help us and who we would need in certain situations. We have also been learning how to sign these jobs using Makaton.
The North East Autism Society are offering a free workshop to parents and carers in South Tyneside. The workshop, ‘Supporting your Autistic Child’ is available to families who have a child or young person pre, during or post diagnosis of Autism.
For more information or to register, please see the link below:
Well done to all the KS2 children and parents who accepted the ‘Build your Legend’ challenge and completed the internet safety quiz.
Children need to be able to navigate the ever-growing online world in a safe and responsible manner and have the knowledge needed to make smart decisions. The ‘Be Internet Legends’ programme from Google empowers children to use the web safely and wisely, so they can be confident explorers of the online world. Why not have a go at The Legends Family Adventure
Look at the fantastic internauts!
This week we have been celebrating autism awareness week by completing 7 challenges each day to recognise the 700 000 people with autism in the UK. On Monday we completed 7 anagrams, on Tuesday we scooted around the yard 7 times, on Wednesday we went on a scavenger hunt around the estate to find 7 Easter pictures and on Thursday we went on an Easter egg hunt answering 7 maths questions along the way….
This week to celebrate World Maths Day Orange Group listened to 10 black dots by Donald Crews and created our own drawings. We counted the number of dots we wanted and added the black dots required.
