Category : Hubs Blog
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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We had lots of fun using our handprints to create our very own seasonal ‘Hub Tree’ all ready for autumn.
Last week, as Scientists in the HUB, we considered what was light and dark and how light allows us to see. This week we explored which objects were a source of light and which were reflectors. We went outside to further explore reflections using a mirror, thinking about how the light travels from the object to the mirror and then bounces into our eye, creating an image. We number played games using the mirror to spy around a wall.
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We then followed instructions to make our very own periscope, just like in a submarine, which allowed us to peer over the top of a place. The mirrors reflected the image and we could count how many secret fingers were being shown! Great work!
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.
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As a class we have developed some brilliant signifiers to help us tell the story of ‘The Way Back Home”. As we can confidently retell the story, we were able to confidently write our own version of the story, making great use of word banks and our independent spelling books to improve our work. We were really proud of this work!
We have had great fun this week, welcoming George into our class. We know how important it is to work hard at school but also to have fun, lots of laughs and friends that we can play a great game of Tig with!
We love being outdoors and enjoying nature.
We have used all our senses during our ‘sensory walk’.
We have gathered lots of leaves that have fallen off the trees to use in our autumnal crafts.
Our Sensory Learners have designed the most wonderful seasonal placemats using the leaves that they gathered on their ‘sensory nature walk’.
We love them and can’t wait to use them during autumn for our ‘Communication Breakfasts’.
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.
