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Key Stage One were very excited to welcome our parents, grandparents and carers into school this week. We impressed them with our Phonics skills in a Speed Sound session and then we read a book to them.
To end the session we shared a book for pleasure with them from our class libraries.
It was lots of fun! We love to read in KS1!
We have had another lovely week in F1 learning all about the story ‘Owl Babies’.
In Maths we have been singing a song called ‘5 Little Owls’ and learning to count down from 5.
This week the children have also been learning the nursery rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall’. We now know the songs ‘Twinkle Twinkle little star’, ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ and ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall’.
On Thursday we celebrated Harvest Festival. The children practised walking sensibly to the hall and we had an assembly talking all about where our food is made. The children also learned the song ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’ and enjoyed joining in with the actions.
Next week we will be learning all about Autumn. We will be reading the story ‘The Leaf Thief’.
For home learning this week the children have been asked to collect some Autumn treasures over the weekend and bring them to school on Monday.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
F1 Staff.
F2 have been reading and learning the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears!’
This week we have created our own signifiers to retell the story and have enjoyed acting out the story using props!
This morning Mrs Buss brought in a magic wand and a magical chair! When we sat on the chair we magically transformed into characters from the traditional tale! We loved meeting and chatting to Goldilocks and Baby Bear and thought of some brilliant questions to ask them. We wanted to know “Why Goldilocks ate all of Baby Bear’s porridge?” and “Did she feel sorry for breaking his chair?” Goldilocks was very sorry and said she would help fix it. We had so much fun getting into character and thinking about the story…
We can’t wait to meet and question some more of the characters this week!
Today Foundation Stage received a surprise package!
The children were so excited to open it! We guessed what could be inside and who it was from? It had our name and address on?
We opened it to find a GIANT PAIR of TEETH!!!
This led to lots of discussion about who these teeth belonged to and where they had come from?! Some children suggested perhaps they could belong to their Grandad…but then they were too large! Some perhaps a dragon…but not quite sharp enough! We came to an overall conclusion that they must belong to a GIANT! And that we needed to look after them until he came back to get them. We talked about how we would look after these teeth and how we look after our own!
This led to us finding more GIANT clues later on and going on a GIANT HUNT!
We found some HUGE shoes, a giant shirt, some large socks and some more GIANT teeth hiding in the soil! We had so much fun digging up clues and investigating our outside area to see what we could spot…
Our GIANT journey continued in P.E…we had great fun leaping like a giant and making giant shadows, stretching out wide and reaching out tall!
We loved expressing ourselves by singing, dancing and being creative during our Fun Friday session!
We enjoyed our sensory mark making which made us very messy but very happy.
Today was the first of our HUB Community Visits. We went to the Pickering Road Community Orchard and it was wonderful! The volunteers welcomed us and allowed us to explore the grounds. We found Bee hives, a woodland walk, a labyrinth as well as hundreds of beautiful apple trees.
Rosie then took us to the tasting table, where she told us all about the varieties of apples that are grown there. We learned about cooking and eating apples and tried a few samples, the very small ‘Pit and Pineapple’ variety were our favourite due to the sweet taste. We were impressed by the size of the Jupiter apple, a really impressive fruit! After this, we used the map and markers to find the trees that grew our favourite and we were allowed to pick as many apples as we could carry!
The following day at school, we composed thoughtful letters to Rosie, thank ing her and the volunteers for out visit. We presented our work with care and will send them to her next week. After working hard writing our letters, we rolled up our sleeves for a food technology lesson. We were peeling, grating and chopping the cooking apples, working as a team to prepare the fruit for our apple crumble. They looked amazing and the best part was the tasting, knowing the journey our apples had taken from tree to table. We were really proud!
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Can you guess which song Jake is copying the actions to?
Jake demonstrated to his friends in the Hub all the actions to Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, identifying parts of our bodies.
You can join in and copy too!
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes knees and toes and eyes and ears and mouth and nose
Head, shoulders, knees and toes knees and toes.
Our Sensory Learners created some beautiful collage portraits in memory of our wonderful Queen.
We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening, turn taking and scissor skills whilst making our portraits.
We showed great interest in books about our Queen and were able to turn pages and enjoy the illustrations.
Our favourite part of the day was when we viewed a little film clip starring The Queen and Paddington Bear. Once again, demonstrating good sitting, looking and listening.
