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Week 3

Following on from last week’s RE lesson – the children acted out a baptism of a baby which is what many Christian’s do to welcome a new arrival.

World book day!

Our DT project is well underway and the children were a little bit freaked out by the paper mache! We all gave it a go and once we had our hands in, we realised it wasn’t too bad!!

Week 2

This week Obi came in to join us and the children are becoming so confident around him and lots of us wanted to race him for the daily mile! Many of the children will play with him during the day and give him lots of strokes and cuddles – which he loves!

In RE we were thinking about how Christians welcome a new arrival.

We have loved Art and DT this week, and have been getting really creative. In Art we have been collaging and exploring with paint. In DT we were super excited to start creating the house shapes with cardboard boxes for our project this half term!

Spring 2 – Week 1

This week we have been practicing a poem about The Great Fire of London. Please have a watch – it is brilliant!

We have also started to edit our work using a new strategy – CUPS which stands for capitalisation, understanding, punctuation and spelling. We are introducing this in small groups until the children are confident with this method of editing but it went really well this week!

We also enjoyed baking scones this week and eating them with butter and jam! The link between scones and writing…..the Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane!

Week 5

In Science this week we were talking about our senses. We have been able to name the 5 senses and think of examples for each, but today – we brought the senses to life….with food! We had lots of different foods and kitchen items for the children to explore. Whether that was through smell, sight, touch, taste or hearing.

In Music we have been learning about beats and how to represent them on paper. We have been clapping to a beat and copying our partner.

To round up the final week this half term – the children finished their DT projects. These projects have taken all half term and they are incredibly proud of their work – and so they should be! In DT this half term, the children had to bind a book using stitching. In order to achieve that – the children had to make a book!!! We each made our own alphabet poem book, designed and made the front cover, sealed it with PVA glue to make it strong and then bound the book down the spine by stitching.

Week 4

This week we were all very excited as we had our trip to Leeds City Museum on Tuesday. We went on the public bus and all enjoyed that part of the day.

Once we got to town we walked to the museum and dropped our coats in a room so we didn’t have to carry them! Then we split into groups with our adults and went exploring! The first floor exhibition on ‘Leeds through the ages’ was what we went for, however all exhibitions sparked the children’s curiosity and interests. Especially the lower ground level with taxidermy animals and interactive learning stations.

Once we had spent time exploring we made our way back to the bus stop and back to school. The final exciting part of our day was eating a school packed lunch in our classrooms!

Week 3

Obi joined us on Monday for a day full of exciting learning. He slept through assembly, phonics and writing before waking up to squeak his toy through Maths before having a lay down on Darcie!

We have also enjoyed creating a wash in art by adding water to paint. This means the paint is more watery and the colour is not as strong – perfect for background.

In History we looked at different household objects from the past and the present. The children thought this was brilliant and we loved looking at what things used to be like!

Week 2

This week in Science we each read then placed labels on the body. We drew around Darcie and we each had a few words to read. We read them aloud and then helped each other place them around the body. We focussed on the internal organs this week and learnt where the brain, heart, lungs, intestines, kidneys and liver are.

Spring 1 – Week 1

Getting back into the school routine has been great and we have had a lovely week easing ourselves back into lessons. In Science we went on a winter walk around the grounds and noticed signs of the seasons. We noticed there were barely any leaves on trees, the ground was hard and frosty in some places and we were wearing clothes to keep us warm.

We organised pictures in our books into two piles. Winter clothes and other seasonal clothes.

In RE we worked together to act out a parable that we had learnt. A parable is something that Christians believe is a story used to illustrate a moral message.

Week 7

The children have worked so hard all half term and with everything Christmas going on it has been super busy! Obi came in as a treat for the last week and enjoyed cuddles, assembly and lots of treats.

This week we also made a Christmas card with a mechanism which I hope the children brought home to show you. This was a DT objective – having a card with a moving part.

We also enjoyed having Christmas dinner altogether in the hall and each wore the crown we had designed and made.

We finished off the year with our Christingle service which is a firm favourite of mine.

Week 6

This week in RE the children have been thinking about what they are most grateful for and what they are thankful for. There have been some lovely ideas. The children wrote these down and made them into chains for the classroom.

The children also enjoyed experimenting with objects in Science and making predictions whether objects would float or sink. We used all of our knowledge about materials and properties to help us make our predictions.