Well… I don’t think we’ve stopped all week, we’ve been so busy in room 8! Lots of our activities took on an Autumn/Halloween theme, here’s some of what we got up to!

We took part in a collaborative challenge to plan and create a spider in small groups. The winning group had their spider added to the class spiderweb currently taking over our reading garden arch!

On Friday, we played lots of different Halloween challenges like the ‘Draw on your Head’ challenge, the ‘Mummifying’ challenge and the ‘Left or Right’ listening challenge. Ask your child about the games and don’t forget to ask to see their Draw on Your Head plates in their bags!

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We’ve had lots of lovely discussions this week after previously being asked the Big Question, ‘What makes us happy?’ We’ve gathered our ideas and have hopefully come up with lots of fun learning activities we can do between now and the Winter break. Stay tuned to find out more!

To kick start our ‘Big Question’ learning, we’ve been starting to create some new artwork. After learning about colour theory, and identifying warm/cool and complimentary/opposite colours, we coloured tin foil with washable felt tip pens, sprayed it with water and then placed paper on top of the watery ink. The ink printed a cool watercolour-type finish onto the paper and this will become the background to our ‘What Makes Us Happy’ art. We hope to have these finished when we return after the October break 😊

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This week we’ve been learning about nouns and adjectives by playing Lucky Grammar games. Ask us about the games, they’ve been so much fun!

We promised to upload a photo of our finished Rights Charter, so check it out below!

Just before the September weekend, we managed to earn a total of 20 PROUD clouds and we chose to have a movie afternoon in our pyjamas! We voted to watch Toy Story 5 and had a great afternoon!

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“We made frogs out of green paper cups and we threaded an elastic band through a hole in the top. Then we got our fingers a little bit wet and, when we rubbed our fingers together over the elastic band, it made a frog’s croaking sound! It was the vibrations of our wet fingers rubbing the elastic band that made the sound. Ribbit!” – Hollie & Beth

“For gym, we did badminton again with the nets up! It was a bit harder trying to hit the shuttlecock over the net and then your partner trying to hit it back but it was really, really fun!” – Ollie, Austin & Isla

“Yesterday when we were playing, Austin made a paper crown for Miss Napier and she pretended she was the Queen! Some sneaky royal subjects (Blake) were trying to steal the crown and run away with it!  Miss Napier called for her guards to arrest him but he’d hidden it. He wouldn’t give it back until the whole class was tidy and everyone was ready with their bags and jackets on. Thankfully, we did everything Blake said and the crown was given back. We love playing and being creative!” – Caleb

Now we’ve finished all our Monet art work, it’s up on our cloakroom wall. We think it looks great!

We also took part in a live sustainability lesson about riding our bike to stay active. It was led by Simon Mole who read his book, ‘I Love My Bike.’ He helped us to create our own poems about riding a bike and got us to think about different words for ‘really,’ ‘fast’ and ‘good,’ including using alliteration! We created a class poem too for the blog:

My bike is extraordinarily awesome,

My bike is super speedy,

My bike is purple with stars on the spokes,

It can go 362mph!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I’m firing my way to the fridge for a feast,

I LOVE MY BIKE!

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We’ve had a super busy and fun week in Room 8. Here’s a snapshot of what the pupils remember doing most:

• Starting a block of badminton during PE
• Using playdough, scrabble tiles, sand trays and playing Hedbanz for spelling
• Reading more of our wordless book ‘Tuesday’ – the frogs in the book are getting up to so much mischief!
• Helping to build our ‘Reading Garden’ arch for the classroom. We’re hoping it will be finished by the end of next week and we can post a photo of it!
• Creating our Class Charter by studying each Right we’re going to include. We should hopefully have it completed by next week too.
• We also had our first assembly and managed to earn 4 PROUD clouds for our singing, dancing and listening!

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We’ve had a super first full week in Room 8! Here’s what some of the class had to say:

• “We have been exploring lots of different tasks this week using our magnet board.” – Beth
• “We were looking at a new book called ‘Tuesday’ but it doesn’t have any words in it! The pictures are so funny.” – Alice
• “I’ve liked playing with everything in the dressing up basket.” – Poppy
• “I liked doing the painting of the book Tuesday.” – Isla
• “I liked making the big wooden castle with Cody and Alex.” – Lewis
• “We have been doing trickier sentences.” – Cody
• “I liked doing the ‘All About You’ pictures.” – Blake
• “I liked playing ‘duplicate my drawing’ with the class.” – Ollie

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