During our Literacy time today we practiced our letter formation, blended sounds to read words, made words using cubes and matched initial sounds to objects.
Month: September 2019
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Today we had our first fire drill where we had to evacuate the school. The children responded quickly to the alarm and we were able to assemble on to the pitch in a good time. Some were a little scared when the alarm sounded but have since been reassured 🙂
At our whole school assembly, the children were given their first house challenge. This was to create a family poem based on the school values. If you would like to participate, these are to be completed and handed in on Friday.
ICT
This afternoon we visited the ICT room. Mrs Stephenson helped us log on to the computers and then we went on to Active Inspire to practise our mouse skills. We found this quite tricky last week but were much more confident this week 👍🏻
Colour!
We had lots of fun during our art time today. Our focus was on the use of colour, including colour mixing, and how this has been explored by various artists. We attempted to replicate the work of the artists Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Joan Miro. We rotated around the stations in our houses working both independently and as part of a group. We used lots of different media including paint, oil pastels, pen and pencil. It was a very busy and messy morning!
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Outdoor Classroom
As it was very wet yesterday we decided to head out to our Outdoor Classroom to complete our activities. On our way there we managed to collect some natural loose parts to practise our counting.
We then used these items to create number posters. We had to write the number and then stick the right number of objects beside it. Here we are working on our posters.
It was exciting to visit a new part of the school and we were able to see the raindrops run down the windows and watch the trees blowing in the wind.
Routines
We are now in week 3 and the boys and girls are already fantastic with their morning routine. They come into class, take their jacket off, unpack their folder, snack and water bottle from their bag and put their bag in the correct box. We then check the register and order lunches 🙂
A special thanks to parents for leaving homework diaries opened inside folders- I have been able to read through them really quickly!
A small reminder about houses. Your child will have a colour on their folder which indicates which house they belong to. The houses are as follows;
Cedar – blue
Maple – red
Beech – green
Poplar – purple
Oak – yellow
House groups are used for our classroom organisation, masterclasses and school challenges.
Mrs Stephenson 🙂
