In Every House, On Every Street
We have had a wonderful, busy morning in Class 1. This week we are looking at different homes and where we all live. The children have had great fun in the classroom, designing new houses, building with the blocks, making objects for the different rooms out of play dough as well as writing about…
Which materials are absorbent and how do we know?
Class 2 have enjoyed investigating which materials are absorbent and explained how they knew. They also looked at the importance of fair tests.
And relax....
What a great morning we all had taking part in a fun yoga session. We all left much calmer!
Phonics Superstars
The children were amazing last week when we started our phonics sessions. They really enjoyed black cat introducing us to the first of his letter sounds. This morning we have learned another new sound and have been using it to sound out 3 letter word! Great work Class 1!
2 Point Perspective
Our art topic for this half term is developing our sketching skills. After experimenting with 3D shapes, where we looked at how shading can impact our final designs, we started to look at one point perspective. This involved using a horizon line and a vanishing point. As you can see from our…
History
This week in history we have been looking at propaganda posters and creating our own.
Investigating the properties of materials.
The children had lots of fun learning about the properties of different materials. They then created their own version of the well loved story, ‘That’s not my rocket.’ Fabulous science everyone!
Wonderful storytellers
Class 2 have worked hard over the past few weeks to learn the story, Dear Zoo. They have studied all of the different animals that the zoo sent the writer, retold the story to their friends using a given story map and have created their own story map of the text ready to write their version of the…
A fun way to start the day!
Some of the children have had a great time completing their morning tasks. Who doesn’t love a bit of dough disco to warm up our hands ready for handwriting practise?
What is it like where we live?
What a beautiful afternoon we had exploring our pretty village! The children had a lovely time looking for human and physical features in our rural village, Elford. We visited the church, walled gardens and the river where the children drew some of the features of our village. Well done…
Skittles experiment with the Colour Monster
The children had a fantastic afternoon observing what happens when you add skittles to water. The children observed all of the colours running and creating rainbows on the plate. They were fascinated and spent a while watching as the colours moved around the paper plate. We talked about the…