Chicks
Here are a few photographs from our first encounter with the new chicks. As you can see from our faces, we were captivated by them and amazed at how tiny they were.
Three more chicks hatched over night so we now have seven. We’ll keep you updated with their progress.
Cheep cheep!
What an egg-citing day! This morning, we noticed that one of the eggs in the incubator had a little hole in it and we could hear some chirping coming from inside. We were very excited and waited patiently, peeking in the incubator throughout the morning. By lunchtime, a chick had hatched fully and it was followed shortly afterwards by 2 more.
We can’t wait to see if the other eggs will hatch over night. Please call into Nursery this week and have a look.
Meet Feather, Chicky and Hattie! The fourth chick hatched right at the end of the day so still needs a name. Let us know your suggestions.
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We’ll post some more photos soon.
Tour De Scholes
On Friday, exactly one week after the Tour De Yorkshire travelled past school, Year 5 took on their own mammoth ride: The Tour De Scholes. Arranged by Cycle North, who came into school recently to lead our Bikeability training, the ride was an opportunity for us all to don our helmets and explore some of the scenery on our doorstep.
Two children from 5,6SK wrote this news report based on the day:
On the 10th May 2019, Year 5 had the oopoortunity to venture out of school the memorable (and muddy) trip to Temple Newsam.
The 14 mile trip consisted of muddy fields, bridleways and especially hard hills. It was a great achievement to go on a bike ride that long and lots of riders agreed it was quite tiring (including Mr Catherall, Mrs Welsby and Mr Gledhill). During the day, there was a variety of emotions shown from the Year 5 crew. The most common: grit and determination!
Although some of our friends had to be persuaded to continue up the monstrous hills, everyone made it there in the end. One rider, in group 2, said: “I was determined to carry on and thought it would be easier than it was!”
Lots of riders said they would recommend the ride if you want to get out more on your bike. After all, you need to appreciate the marvellous world surrounding us.
Here’s some pictures of us enjoying the day…
Tadpoles and frogs
This week, we enjoyed learning a little bit more about our wriggly guests in Nursery. We looked at the tadpoles carefully and drew them using fine liners; they were too quick to look at with our Exploroscope!
Children loved singing ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’. Here’s a link to a video in case you don’t know the song so that you can sing a long at home!
In the sensory area, we had ‘tapioca’ frogspawn and tadpoles. It was great fun to scoop it up and look at all of the little jelly balls. It looked like tiny tadpole eggs which we learnt is called frogspawn. We enjoyed finding out about the life cycle of a frog and children can’t wait for the legs to begin to grow.
It was a very wet week but that didn’t stop us from taking our learning outside. We made potions and explored colour mixing in the rain. As we were making our potions, we noticed that we could smell something. After a little bit of investigating, we realised that it was the herbs that we could smell. We talked about fresh basil on pizzas and the smell of mint reminded us of brushing our teeth.
Some children noticed that the water in the tray changed colour when they added some paint. This led to lots of conversations regarding colour mixing and how to make the blue water change to purple or green.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters… (science – properties of materials)
Science is a firm favourite in Key Stage 1. Lots of children say it is their favourite lesson. This week, we were working together to build a bridge for Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion to cross the river to the Emerald City!
The children had paper, cardboard, wood or plastic (Lego) to use. They had to assess the properties of the materials to work out which ones would work.
We need to make the paper more rigid to make the bridge. We could glue pieces together.
The wood is hard.
We can join the Lego pieces together easily.
Golden Star
Well done to this weeks Golden Star pupil!
Number Bonds to 5 and 10
This week, we have been looking at number bonds to 5 and to 10. We have used ten frames and part part whole models to show the number bonds. We also used the pictures to tell number stories using first, then, now.
For example:
- 5 and 1 makes 10.
- First there were 4 Catboys and then 1 Gekko came along, now there are 5 altogether.
- 1 and 9 makes 10.
- First there was 1 catboy and then 9 Owlettes came along, now there are 10 altogether.
The children also used part part whole models to work out the whole number when they were given the 2 parts.
- If 8 is a part and 2 is a part then 10 is the whole.
Challenge – 3 cubes
Can your child tell you different ways to make the number 5 and/or 10? Can they record it?
Please email any quotes from your child. This will support us in our assessment by providing evidence towards the Number strand of the EYFS.
Using quantities and objects, they add two single-digit numbers.
2KL Behaviour Reward
2KL have a marble jar. When their individual or collective behaviour is exceptional, they get to put a marble in the jar. It doesn’t get filled too often but when it does 2KL are delighted! This week the children decided that crafting, Lego and cars would be their (15min) treat of choice. Well done 2KL, you really are stars!
Golden Star
This week, the Golden Star goes to…
The Evil Pea strikes!
Oh, what fun we’ve had in Nursery this week! Continuing with our love of the Supertato stories, this week, the Evil Pea visited Nursery and has been up to mischief.
On Tuesday, he kidnapped all of the carrots from our snack bowl and hid them outside. Children were very excited trying to spot them all from the window and couldn’t wait to get outside to find them and set them free. Children worked together to figure out how to get them down from all of the different places, high and low.
Once the carrots had been set free, we used a giant tens frame to count how many we had found and marked on our carrot clipboards.
The children were very excited and couldn’t wait to see what the Evil Pea would get up to next!
On Wednesday, he had visited Nursery and left us a letter.
The Evil Pea had captured all of the vegetables from our fridge and locked them up outside. Luckily for us, he must have dropped his map on the way out and so we had a clue to follow.
We drew on the locations of the keys that we could see in our garden and went outside to hunt for the missing keys.
Children quickly found the keys and began to try and unlock the mini padlocks. However, the keys didn’t fit! With a bit of team work, they figured out that the coloured bands on the padlocks must match the colours on the keys. Phew! The locks opened and the veggies were free.
Our visit from The Evil Pea caused lots of excitement in Nursery and stimulated some fantastic conversations as a result of his mischievous deeds.
Children demonstrated lots of the ‘characteristics of effective learning’ during these activities; they were… motivated, curious, exploring, engaging, pretending, solving problems, deciding, negotiating, thinking, focussing, persisting, concentrating and proud of their achievements.
Outside, we practised aiming and throwing by trying to knock Evil Pea and his friends off their spots and squirting them with water! These activities are a great way to develop both gross and fine motor skills from the Physical Development part of the Early Years curriculum. Squirting water definitely helped to strengthen finger muscles!
