Cultural Week

This week we've had Cultural Week - we have been learning about Africa. We've learnt these facts:
Africa is a continent.
It has lots of different countries.
One country is Kenya.
The capital of Kenya is Nairobi.
In Africa, people go to markets to buy and sell food.
In Africa, you might see giraffes, elephants or hippos.


We've had lots of fun doing some great activities:
We painted sunsets and cut out animals to stick on.
We really enjoyed the African dancing with Michael.
We made colourful necklaces.
We listened to African music and drew what the music made us think of.
We made colourful Ndembele houses.


We enjoyed sharing our work with everyone in celebration assembly.


Our half term Home Learning is the FORIS Autumn Challenge to fill a matchbox...


Grace has been given the Star Award this week for always following the class rules and for being independent. Well done, Grace!


Have a great half term holiday everyone.

Authors and illustrators

Over the past few weeks, we have been reading Traditional Tales and doing lots of work about them. This week, we worked in our morning groups to rewrite a Traditional Tale. Mrs McLellan, Mrs Turner and Mrs Orchard were all really pleased with how well we worked together. 
We also made pictures for our story.
They are called illustrations - Ross
We did our illustrations on the computer - James
I used the paintbrush - Mollie
I used the shapes - Lucas

We put together all of the skills we've been learning in Computing to create our pictures.  Mrs Orchard has put all of our work together to make books that we will be putting in the book corner. 

Today, we wrote our own stories about the Big Bad Wolf. We were trying to write in sentences and use adjectives for description.
What did the Big Bad Wolf do in our stories?
He went to the pyramids -Lyla
He made a cake - Zaina
He looked for Goldilocks - Harry

In maths, we have been finding 1 more or 11 less than a number. We enjoyed using the counters on a tens frame to do this. We also played a fun game together.

We got our tenth marble this week - so had a treat of watching Numberblocks with our snack. Our new class challenge is to work quietly and independently in Guided Reading. 

10 of us achieved our first challenge leaf and put them on the challenge tree in assembly. 

Next week is cultural week, and we are learning about Africa. Our home learning is to find out some facts about Kenya and record them in our own way. 

This week Arlie got the Star Award for settling in so well to our class. Well done, Arlie!

Our Learning Owl this week is Jessica. She is always ready to learn, works independently and tries her best with her work. Well done, Jessica. Have a great weekend with Snowy. 

Birthdays and Harvest Festival

We started talking about what to put in this week's blog and realised what a busy week we have had!
On Monday, our school was 50 years old and we had a fun day to celebrate. We read The Birthday Message by Eric Carle and then did some activities - we made crowns, went on a treasure hunt and drew birthday pictures.
Ethan says the best part was meeting everyone else in the hall for cake.

On Wednesday it was No Pens Day. We found quite tricky to not use pens or pencils all day- especially the children who like to colour! We did a fantastic science investigation though.
We had to find out what the best material was for the 3 Little Pigs roof - Daisy
We tested what was waterproof and what wasn't - Jessica
Foil was the best because it was waterproof and strong - Beatrice
Tissue paper was the worst because it cracked and water fell through- Harry

Today we celebrated Harvest Festival. We enjoyed the assembly and thought Nursery and Reception sang their song brilliantly. Reverend Will did a fun assembly and told us what Harvest was all about. We were proud of the songs we sang with Oak and Year 2.

We've also had a skipping workshop today. Some of us demonstrated to everyone else in assembly.
I learnt to skip forwards and backwards - Ben
I had to touch my feet and the ground - Arlie

What a lot we have packed in to the week!

The Star Award was given to Mollie who has been able to talk about her feelings. Well done, Mollie.

Chrisanthi is taking Snowy home because she has been working independently and shown perseverance with her writing. Well done, Chrisanthi - have a lovely weekend with Snowy.

We have brought home blank paper this weekend, to create a Christmas Card design on.

Our Home Learning is to see what numbers we can find around us - it doesn't have to be digits - it could groups of objects too.

Happy Weekend everyone.

Big Bad Wolf

This week, we have been reading more traditional tales. We have listened to Little Red Riding Hood and some of us pretend to be her, answering questions that other children in the class asked.
We have used words and phrases to describe the Big Bad Wolf and then wrote a WANTED poster to try and catch him.

In maths we had great fun using a tens frame:
You have 10 squares - you can use it to count numbers and show numbers with a counter in each square - Theo
You have to put different coloured counters in the squares - Lucas

On Monday, it is the school's 50th birthday, so this week we  used photographs to find similarities and differences between school now and in the olden days.
They had a role play then too - Lyla
The library was in the hall - Mollie
There used to be different tables, but they were the same shape - Poppy
There was no Treetops - Ross
They had wooden bins, now they are metal - Sophia

This week's Star Award goes to Connie for developing her independence an taking responsibility for her learning. We;; done, Connie.

James is our Learning Owl this week - he works independently and perseveres when he finds things tricky. He listens well and works well with others. Well done James. Have a good weekend with Snowy!

This weekend, our home learning is to record any signs of autumn we have seen. We've also brought home envelopes to decorate for Friday's Harvest Festival. We are collecting donations for Herts Young Homeless.