Welcome back everyone, we hope you all had a good half-term.
This week, we have been looking at Chinese New Year and celebrations. We made pancakes and compared them to Chinese spring rolls and thought about describing how they tasted using our WOW words, delicious and scrumptious.
In our writing this week, we wrote wishes just like the Chinese do to celebrate their New Year, and instead of letting our wishes go up in large lanterns, we substituted them for helium balloons. We let them go on Friday afternoon and we were very excited about it. We have also been trying to write Chinese symbols too.
In maths we have learned about doubling. We used pancakes because doubling those can only ever be a good thing!
Next week we are pretending to be Superheroes, and of course, we have World Book Day too.
Friday 27 February 2015
Friday 13 February 2015
Week beginning 9.2.15
This week has been International week in school. The country we have been learning about is Kenya. The children have thoroughly enjoyed looking at the globe, Google Earth and maps to try to understand about where in the world Kenya is. After looking at different planets last week we had to explain that Kenya is in fact on Earth as some children did not believe us!
The children have been on a safari and spotted different African animals. They learnt facts about these and also whether they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. They have also learnt about the continents and oceans. We have looked at African artifacts and artwork and created out own artwork. The children also learnt about Shamba which is an African farm. They made their own Shamba with the small world resources. The children also learnt about the mud huts that some Kenyan people live in. They are keen to have a go at building these outside in the forest area! We watched the Masai tribal dances and had a go at dancing in the same way.We were also very lucky to have an African drumming workshop where all the children had a go at playing African drums which they absolutely loved.
To end the week we are off to the Playhouse to see 'Room on the Broom' which we're sure that the children will love!
Have a good half term!
The children have been on a safari and spotted different African animals. They learnt facts about these and also whether they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. They have also learnt about the continents and oceans. We have looked at African artifacts and artwork and created out own artwork. The children also learnt about Shamba which is an African farm. They made their own Shamba with the small world resources. The children also learnt about the mud huts that some Kenyan people live in. They are keen to have a go at building these outside in the forest area! We watched the Masai tribal dances and had a go at dancing in the same way.We were also very lucky to have an African drumming workshop where all the children had a go at playing African drums which they absolutely loved.
To end the week we are off to the Playhouse to see 'Room on the Broom' which we're sure that the children will love!
Have a good half term!
Friday 6 February 2015
Week beginning 2.2.15
This week has been really exciting and we have ventured off into space!
We began the week with a drama making our own journey into space just like in the book 'Whatever Next'. Then we have spent time on the ipads and the large Interactive Whiteboard designing our own planets.
In maths we have looked at ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) as well as ordering rockets from tallest to smallest. We have also practiced adding two groups of objects together and we used alien eyes to do this!
Next week is International Week and we will be looking at the country of Kenya.
We began the week with a drama making our own journey into space just like in the book 'Whatever Next'. Then we have spent time on the ipads and the large Interactive Whiteboard designing our own planets.
In maths we have looked at ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) as well as ordering rockets from tallest to smallest. We have also practiced adding two groups of objects together and we used alien eyes to do this!
Next week is International Week and we will be looking at the country of Kenya.
Week beginning 26.1.15
This week we have been pretending to be Princes and Princesses and we have had some fabulous role playing.
For our writing this week, we had the story 'You Can't Eat a Princess' and we saw how Princess Spaghetti had a fabulous feast and went to space to rescue King Cupcake who had been kidnapped by aliens. We wrote a list of the foods we would like to eat at our own party.
In maths, we have been learning about weight. We had a selection of large chocolate bars (not real, otherwise they may not have lasted the whole morning) and we found out that the smallest chocolate bar is not necessarily the lightest chocolate bar.
In dance we learned to 'Freestyle' and we rocked our moves to some funky tunes incorporating a spin, a jump and a clap.
Next week we are off to space and pretending to be astronauts...
For our writing this week, we had the story 'You Can't Eat a Princess' and we saw how Princess Spaghetti had a fabulous feast and went to space to rescue King Cupcake who had been kidnapped by aliens. We wrote a list of the foods we would like to eat at our own party.
In maths, we have been learning about weight. We had a selection of large chocolate bars (not real, otherwise they may not have lasted the whole morning) and we found out that the smallest chocolate bar is not necessarily the lightest chocolate bar.
In dance we learned to 'Freestyle' and we rocked our moves to some funky tunes incorporating a spin, a jump and a clap.
Next week we are off to space and pretending to be astronauts...
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