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Year 3 - French with Annik and Albert

Fri 04 Nov 2016

Y1/2 - Alphabetical Challenges!

Fri 04 Nov 2016

F2 - New Classroom Changes to Explore and Enjoy!

Fri 04 Nov 2016

F2 - New Classroom Changes to Explore and Enjoy!

What a fantastic week back! We have made a few changes to the classroom. Our Home Corner is now a Costa Coffee Shop and the children have loved it! We have some budding baristas in the making! Our other role play area is now a dark cave for bed time reading. Keeping to a Halloween theme, our children could enter a competition to design a jack-o'-lantern face which we would carve into our pumpkin. Oliver was our worthy winner— just take a look at his splendid design!

In gymnastics, we had to pull ourselves across the benches, do a stretch jump off and land in the landing shape. We had to be careful not put our hands on the floor. We are trying very hard in gymnastics and making good progress!

On our Wednesday Walkabout, we made a giant Rangoli pattern out of leaves. First, we drew our design and then we created it with the leaves we had collected on our Walkabout. What do you think to it? We had talked about the story of Diwali. “Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is the most popular of all the festivals from South Asia. It is also the occasion for celebrations by Jains and Sikhs as well as Hindus. The word Diwali comes from the Sanskrit word deepavali, meaning ‘rows of lighted lamps’".

In Caterpillar Music, we continued with the theme of celebration, including Diwali, the festival of light and the triumph of good over evil. We talked about lots of different sources of light, played lots of fun games and danced and moved to Ali’s selection of music. Alison played her saxophone for us so that we could move and dance along to it. We had to use our listening skills to follow the tempo of the music. We were very good!

F1 - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo...

Fri 04 Nov 2016

This week, we had a truly Tree-mendous Tuesday in the woods because Miss Frisby and Mrs Fenton had an extra surprise in store! But before we even left the school grounds, we ran up the little hill near the trees in the big play ground and kicked the leaves. Then we collected huge handfuls and on the count of three we all threw them in the air! Oh what fun it was!

We walked along the ‘yellow brick road’ but it wasn’t yellow anymore as Avah-Mae pointed out as it was covered in leaves! There were green ones as well as yellow, red and orange ones too; they were even falling on our heads as we walked along! Annalise pointed out that they were falling on Sophie’s head! Esmae and Freya picked up twigs with leaves attached and counted how many they had on each and then Esmae pulled them off and said that there was zero!

We walked out of the wood near the Lake and Jack told me that there was a park near here. Sophie saw the skate board park and said that her brothers went there! There was a really steep hill and Mrs Fenton and Miss Frisby showed our friends how to walk down it carefully but when we got to the bottom we let our little legs run really fast and we had huge smiles on our faces when we reached the bottom!

We went to Andy’s Café and we were treated to some delicious hot buttered toast by Yvonne, the owner. How lovely and kind! It was delicious and we then had to sing happy birthday to Miss Frisby and Mrs Bacon who have both celebrated birthdays this week.

In phonics, we have been following the Halloween theme by making a special broth of different letters. We had to wear our witch’s hat and say the magic spell:

“Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Let’s make some alphabet stew

Choose a letter from the pot and make the sound you’ve got

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo."

Miss Frisby was very impressed with how confident we were at recognising all our sounds. Look at our blogs and comment on all the learning that has been happening in F1.