Today, F1 have been thinking about how the Gruffalo looks. They had to look at the pictures and listen to the description, then choose what colours they needed for their pictures.
They were brilliant artists! Well done everyone.
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F1 have been loving learning about ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’.
Click on the link below to see how we go on when they went out on their own hunt…
A few snaps from our builder ‘WOW’ day! The children had great fun learning all about the roles involved in house development, from designing houses to building them! We became architects and thought about what our house would have and the materials we could use. We got to work building as a team and made a fabulous house with windows, walls, a roof, chimney and a garden! Unfortunately whilst we were out having our lunch over dinner someone came into the classroom and blew our house down!!! The children were quite puzzled by who could have done this!? This led to an investigation… and we soon found the culprit! The BIG BAD WOLF! The children decided they wanted to question the wolf and find out why he had blown down our house… The wolf was taken in for hot-seating and the children thought of some fantastic questions! The children came to the conclusion themselves that really the wolf wasn’t all that bad and in actual fact was just quite lonely and needed a friend. The children helped the wolf make his own house as he promised to not blow anymore houses down! The children all looked fabulous in their builder costumes!
Year 5 have started their first Talk for Writing unit in English. Our fiction text is called Smaug – a young boy who sets about his mission to defeat Smaug, the infamous dragon. The children have really enjoyed learning the story off by heart using signifiers. Below are some photographs of the children acting the ‘beating the monster’ story.
This week Foundation Stage have started their new text, ‘You must bring a hat!’ by Simon Phillip and we have loved reading this text!
The children have been exploring hats, hats and more hats! And have loved looking into hats from all around the world and the many different purposes and occasions for a hat!
We have looked at describing some of the hats we have at home and how they are special to us, using our phonic knowledge to begin to write some cvc words to describe them!
We had the most fun this afternoon when we got to show off our hats on our HAT-WALK and strut our stuff modelling our very own favourite hat!
Keep your eyes posted for our upcoming ‘mad-hatters’ tea party! Invitations and lists to be written…
Following on from introducing our story last week, ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’ , this week we have been learning more signifiers in our Talk for Writing sessions and worked together to create our own story maps!
We talked about the main events and characters and sequenced what happened in order together. We loved creating these story maps as groups, discussing the story and helping each other along the way. We showed good pencil control and did some fabulous annotations of Goldilocks and her curly hair!
This week we will be using these story maps to retell and perform the story to the class and begin to write some initial sounds of words!
There has been a crime!
Someone has been into our classroom this morning and made such a mess! We arrived at school to find porridge everywhere and a BROKEN CHAIR! We had to put on our investigation caps and get to the bottom of who had made the mess!
After lots of discussions and partner talk we decided that it must be GOLIDLOCKS! This made lots of sense seeing as though we have been reading the story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears!”.
We decided to create WANTED posters to find the culprit! We searched high and low to see if we could spot her and set traps outside to find her! We loved trying on our golden wigs to see if it was anyone we knew!
Lots of us enjoyed making our own perfect porridge recipe, that tasted “just right!”
Last week Year 2 found some mysterious footprints around school! They went outside to investigate.
They predicted that they could be Martian’s footprints so they set a trap over the weekend.
On Monday they found a family of Martians in their trap! They orally learned some instructions for How to Catch a Martian and then wrote their instructions.
Then they looked at the features of instructions and wrote command sentences to help the Martians adapt to school life !
A few snaps of our very relaxing and chilled afternoon in the library! The children loved sitting together and sharing new and favourite books!
We discussed about what the purpose of a library was, what we should do in there and some very important golden rules! We talked about taking great care of our books and holding them properly, turning the pages carefully and putting them back. The children really loved the time spent in there and we finished our calm session off with a whole class story together!
Our writing focus in English at the moment is ‘balanced arguments’ and Year 6 have been enjoying to opportunity to consider positives and negatives relating to a range of topics. We have also had the opportunity to take part in verbal debates and the children were fantastic at voicing their opinions and backing up their arguments with evidence and statistics to help justify their viewpoints.
