Hello again from P2a!

This week we made lots of pumpkin characters for Halloween.  We used coloured paper, pens, scissors and glue.  For the arms and legs we had to fold the paper back and forward to make a ‘crinkly’ look.  Here we are busy at work.

  

 

and here are the finished Pumpkin characters in our classroom!

   

We took them home on Friday so now we have lots of space in our classroom to make more things for display.  We wonder what we’ll be making next…

For Halloween we also read 2 super stories  about cats – Trixie the Witch’s Cat by Nick Butterworth and The Scaredy Cat by Russell Punter.

 

In Drama we acted out a creepy story for Halloween about a Haunted House.  We all got a part to play and had fun making the sound effects of creaky doors, howling wind, thumps and bumps and screams!  It turned out that the house wasn’t scary at all…..there was only a little cat hiding in the house.  The 2 characters in the play took it home to give it some milk so the story had a happy ending.

In the gymhall we used the story of Percy the Park Keeper and the Rescue for Movement and Dance.  We had to move around like rabbits, foxes and hedgehogs and pretend that we were like Percy helping to keep the park tidy by fixing fences and planting plants.  We’ll continue with the second part of the story next week. 

On Tuesday morning we had our class photo taken by the photographer in school.  Copies can now be ordered using the envelope taken home later in the week – see contents of schoolbags!  Then on Tuesday afternoon we visited the DCA to see the Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson. 

We all liked the story and it was fun to travel on the bus with our class and some parent helpers. (A big thank you to our helpers!  We hope you enjoyed your visit too.)

In Literacy we learned words using Y  such as cry, try, why and fly and learned more about adjectives.  We used the whiteboard to watch BBC clips showing words with Y and we particularly liked the Alphablocks song about Y.  Later in the week we practised our handwriting and completed a wordsearch where we had to find words with -SH, like fish, dish and wish.  We are getting very good at this.

In Numeracy we played a game with our 100 square.  Everyone had to put their heads on the desk (like Heads down, Thumbs up) whilst one of us mixed up some of the numbers on the big 100 square.  Then we had to sit up and work out what numbers were jumbled up.  It’s a bit tricky for us but we’re beginning to find patterns and tricks to remember the order of the numbers.

Remember that next week is a short week because there’s IN-SERVICE days on THURSDAY and FRIDAY

Also remember to bring GYM KIT in for P.E. on Monday and Tuesday!

More from us next week…bye for now from P2a!