During writing we wrote a dialogue inspired by ‘The Longest Journey’ advert. We created scripts about the conversation the snowpeople had when the snowman returned from his journey. We looked at the punctuation we had to use and how to set out the conversation. We then acted these out and enjoyed hearing the conversations.
We have had a great time this week creating our Sock Snowmen for the Christmas Fair. We were very creative and even created backstories for our snowmen!
This week we had a taekwondo taster session. It was great fun! We used the pads and developed different punching and kicking skills.
We also said goodbye to Mr Ferguson who has been working with us for the last five weeks. We have loved having him join our class and will miss him.
Preparations are underway for our Christmas performance!
This week we have been very busy designing and building our own castles. We worked in small groups to gather our ideas and knowledge about the different features of castles. We used the ‘Make Do’ to build our castles, they look fantastic! We really enjoyed having our parents and carers visiting our classroom to help us with the construction. We were also researching different jobs within a castle and completing applications forms for the jobs that we would have liked to have done. In addition, we were learning about various weapons that would have been used in castles.
This week we were learning about tinting in Art. We created backgrounds using tinting before creating a silhouette of a castle. The children also thought about the features of a castle when creating their design. The children enjoyed this learning experience and their finished artwork looks great!
This week we have been working on different balances as part of gymnastics in PE. We has a great time working with our partners to come up with different balances.
This week we have being doing some Halloween themed pieces of work. We created super Halloween poems thinking about adjectives, alliteration and rhyming. Some of the children read these out at the infant assembly this morning.
We have been learning about 3D shapes and nets, this week we used our knowledge of this to create 3D Halloween monsters. We had lots of fun doing this!
In Art, we created spooky Mummy eyes. We used oil pastels and blending to help make these creepy!
This week, people around the world are celebrating Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas!
We learned that Diwali is the Festival of Lights, and celebrates the victory of good over evil and light over darkness. Families light lamps, decorate their homes, and enjoy sweets and fireworks.
Bandi Chhor Divas is a Sikh festival on the same day. It remembers Guru Hargobind Ji, who helped free 52 kings from prison. Sikhs light up gurdwaras and pray for freedom and peace. Both festivals remind us to be kind to each other.
To celebrate we took part in a craft activity to make our own diya lights.
This week we were learning about the street artist Thank you x. We were learning about how he got noticed in the art world and how he become known worldwide very quickly. We explored how he uses colour, line and patterns in his artwork. We created our own street art for our classroom inspired by his work.
On Thursday we had a brilliant day at the Science Centre. We took part in ‘Castles Rock’ which was a great show! We were learning about how castles were built, what they were built from and how climate change has had an impact on them. We will be learning more about this as part of out IDL topic after the October week. The children all enjoyed exploring the different levels of the Science Centre.
