Our favourite things this week

• dancing to the Superman song.  Keir
• doing our beat that maths scores with music.  Oliver
• playing outside for golden time.  Erin
• playing on the monkey bars.  Axel
• climbing trees in the forest.  Sancha
• pasta spelling.  Willow

What have you learned this week?

• learning how to make things fly.  Ava
• learning what a WOW word is.  Abbey
• how to climb trees.  Scott
• about superhero costumes.  Enzo
• singing new songs  and climbing on the monkey bars.  Aaryn

What should we do next?

• learn a new topic.  Mara
• get new toys – superhero ones.  Harry
• make houses at the forest.   Angus

Many girls have lost their named cardigans.  We think someone may have taken them home accidentally. Please check the names of the cardigans you may have at home.  Many thanks.

We had a wonderful day in the forest today.  We explored the forest with our friends by playing different hiding games.  We became much more confident as the day went on.

We took our superheroes to the forest and experimented with ways to make them move.  There was lots of fantastic problem solving happening.  Once we had successfully made them move we used stopwatches and timers to see if we could work out how to make them even faster.  We learned that a steeper, straight piece of string made them go fastest.  We also learned that the start should be very high and the end should be low.

We also made our own superhero dens.  They had booby traps, jails, invisible wires, webs, sofas, beds, exercise areas and much, much more.  We worked extremely well together as a team and confidently shared our very elaborate ideas!

We we also developed our skills in keeping ourselves and others safe by carefully climbing very high trees.  This is something we all want to explore further.

We are very excited about visiting the forest tomorrow.

Please remember:

• A small rucksack containing a filled water bottle and a snack
• a waterproof jacket (and trousers if you have)
• School jumper
• an extra layer for the top half – fleece, hoody, jumper etc
• hats and gloves (these can be carried in the rucksack)
• sturdy footwear

All children should come to school wearing all of these clothes tomorrow. This will save time at school and enable us to leave school promptly.  Thank you.

Every Wednesday we explore new sounds and words in a range of different play contexts.  We are learning to become increasingly independent at doing this.  Today our activities included: bingo, glittery g’s, roller paint, shaving foam, mini whiteboards, the story corner and writing.  We also spend some time with Mrs Duncan doing our reading books.

We used roller paints to write our tricky words today.

We also learned how to correctly form the letter ‘g’ by making glittery green g’s.  We found it quite tricky correctly forming this letter.  Please help your child with this if you notice them struggling at home. We call the letter g ‘a caterpillar letter’.  We do the curly c caterpillar first before going straight to the top, then following the path back down and doing a naughty kick.  Your child should be able to do this if they are reminded.  You could try getting them to draw the letter in the air, on your back, in a tray of flour or on a steamy mirror or window.

The children had expressed an interest in finding out about flying Superheroes.  This links well to Science curricular outcomes.

We are going to be focussing on Science superhero activities over the next few weeks with a particular focus on how different forces  such as gravity, pushing and pulling can have an impact upon a moving superhero.

Today we made Superheroes out of kitchen roll tubes.  We found it quite tricky to draw on these as we have not drawn on curved shapes often before.  It required some problem solving! 🙂

We plan to take these Superheroes to the forest on Thursday.  We are going to use string and branches to experiment with how we can make them fly.  We are all very excited about this (Mrs Duncan included!)

The elephants are learning the ‘ee’ sound.  Today they drew around their feet and decorated them with ‘ee’ words and pictures.  They are becoming increasingly confident using two-letter blends (diagraphs).

Today we were star class at assembly.  We have the trophy in our class for 1 week.  Many of us said  “I feel very proud!”

– Superhero targets – please see previous post.  Try chatting to your family about your Supehero target and talk about how you could try and achieve it at home.

– Reading will be on Monday and Wednesday this week.   Tuesday and Thursday for the pandas.

– Elephants – new words and new sound ‘ee’.   These will be issued on Tuesday. Please try making ee words using magnetic letters or scrabble letters.  If you do not have these at home you could use this website instead:  http://www.ictgames.com/foamPhonemes/index.html

You could try and spell feet, meet, keep, cheese (remind of silent e),  sleep, sheep, sweets etc.

– Pandas and Tigers.  This week is a revision week.  Please revise all sounds and words.  You could try making some three letter words using the sounds. Try using magnetic letters or scrabble letters.  If you do not have these at home you could use the website above.

We have 25 new superheroes at Cults Primary.  Each superhero has made a promise/target to try and ensure they are behaving like superheroes.  They have made promises to be kind, helpful, brave, strong or fast.  Please ask your little Superheroes what their superhero promise is and they can try hard to achieve it at home too.

We have displayed all of our flying superheroes and their targets over the city landscape that we made at the beginning of the week.  Don’t they look fantastic?!

The Superheroes also worked hard to write their targets with increasing independence.