What an exciting multi-cultural week! On Monday, Mrs Barton taught the children in Class 1 all about the American Thanksgiving celebration. They made head bands and she even taught them a bit of line dancing! On Tuesday we had another visit from Di Pardoe who talked more to the children about being a good purple … Read more
This week we have started our topic on ‘Celebrations’. We shared our homework and found it really interesting to listen to the different celebration and festivals that people had found out about. We’ve now come up with lots of questions that we would like the answers to. So far this week we have found out … Read more
Our dinosaur topic is coming to an end, so this week we have been trying to find the answers to some of the burning questions we listed at the start of the topic. We have found out more about the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, including how the Earth and its climate changed and which … Read more
This week we have been sharing and comparing stories about dinosaurs. We created our own versions of one of the stories, put it into a storyboard and told our stories to each other. Later in the week we wrote the stories, making sure we included adventurous vocabulary, connectives and correct punctuation. We have focused on … Read more
In our topic work this week, we have been learning about how dinosaurs might have spent their day and have even written our own dinosaur diaries! We had to remember to write in the first person – ask us what this means. On Wednesday we had a fascinating trip to the Natural History Museum in … Read more
Welcome back! We hope you’ve all had a lovely Easter break. This week we have started our Dinosaurs topic. The children shared their homework and brainstormed all the things they already know about dinosaurs. They then came up with a list of really good questions that they would like to find the answers to during … Read more
This week we have been Spring Nature Detectives! On our village walk we looked for signs of Spring, particularly how the plants and flowers had changed since our Winter walk. Ask us what we spotted and what we found out. In class we discussed the clocks changing and the fact that we have more hours … Read more
This week we have been classifying animals; we learned about the main features of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and insects then grouped our animal pictures accordingly. Ask us to tell you about which creatures belong to each group and why. We have also been learning about the structure of different animals. Did you know … Read more
This week we started our ‘Ourselves’ topic. We talked about our bodies, named and located bones and found out what our skeleton is for. We also learned about the five senses (ask us to tell you what they are) and took part in a carousel of activities where we used each of the 5 senses … Read more
In our Inventions work this week, we have focused on fictional inventors and inventions: we described the inventor that might work in the ‘Inventor’s Shed’ (a picture that we looked at), we watched a video clip called ‘The Shirt Machine’ and described it using alliterative sentences and we shared other stories about inventions. For World … Read more
