Class News

Easter Fun

We have had lots of Easter fun this week. First, we went to the library and read an Easter book. We talked about how the book was a non-fiction book and looked at the contents page. Then, we talked about Easter celebrations and why Christians celebrate Easter.

On Thursday, the children enjoyed joining in with the bonnet parade. They also enjoyed the egg rolling competition. We compared how fast and far all the eggs went as they rolled down!

Have you been up to anything exciting this weekend? Please email or bring to school some photos. This will help your child write about their weekend news on Tuesday.

Super Veggies!

Once the Easter excitement has faded, we’re going to enjoy reading about the adventures of ‘Supertato’ and his vegetable friends. Many children have shown an interest in this book and its superhero characters.  We’ll also continue with our ‘growing’ theme and learning about different life cycles. As well as our new Nursery children, we will also welcome some other visitors to Nursery. Some are small, wriggly and live in a tank and some are very fragile and will spend the next 21 days in our incubator… You’ll have to ask your child to tell you more!

For this week’s home link activity, can you visit the supermarket or raid your fridge to find some weird and wonderful veggies to send into Nursery? We’re going to transform them into superheroes – watch this space for some photos next week.

Easter fun

It was lovely to see everyone’s smiling faces on their return to Nursery this week. We enjoyed hearing about all of your fun adventures over the holidays; from camping trips with inflatable sofas, sledging in the mountains, meeting Princesses and building sandcastles in Wales!

This week, our learning was themed around Easter. We enjoyed sampling hot cross buns at snack time and talked about the Easter story and some of the ways that Christians celebrate Easter.

One of the most popular activities this week was decorating and rolling eggs.  After rolling our eggs, we noticed that the shells had begun to crack. We enjoyed cracking them open and carefully removing the shell.  Many children were amazed at what they found inside! They loved peeling away the egg white to reveal the yellow yolk.

Outside, we enjoyed taking part in egg hunts. Children took turns to hide the eggs for each other and pretended to be the Easter bunny.  We counted the eggs back into the basket each time and somebody realised that the golden egg had gone missing!  We looked all over for it, but couldn’t find it anywhere. We drew a map of the Nursery garden to make sure that we searched everywhere. A few children thought that Jack had stolen it, just like he stole the golden egg from the giant.  Mrs Brown called Jack’s mum on the phone but he was out – probably climbing beanstalks! Eventually, we decided to make a giant, golden egg; we certainly wouldn’t loose that one!

When the missing egg was found (it was hiding in a welly!), some children decided to make a special nest to help keep it safe.

At the maths table, we counted eggs and compared their sizes, colours and patterns.  We also had some stacking chicks; it was quite tricky to find the matching top and bottom parts.  In our Fiddly Fingers area, we used a timer to race against the clock to see how many eggs we could pick out of the nest in 3 minutes. Using the tweezers was difficult, but it was great to see children persevering until they mastered it.

The Wizard of Oz – writing

The performance of The Wizard of Oz this week was one of the best we have seen at Scholes (Elmet) Primary School.

The acting, singing, scenery and story telling left us all wanting more.

Not only that, but experiences like this provides a stimulus to help us to write. It makes our writing more meaningful and easier to put pen to paper.

In Year 3/4 we have been working on direct speech within a story. So, this was an ideal opportunity to create dialogue between characters.

Here is our writing sequence:

• watch and retell the story of The Wizard of Oz
• recap by looking at photographs from the performance
• add speech bubbles for what the characters said
• turn speech bubbles into written direct speech

Here are some examples of our work that we feel proud to show off:-

By Alex, Connor and Imogen.

Egg-cellent Easter fun

Thank you to all the parents and carers who sent decorated hard-boiled eggs and Easter-themed headwear today. We had great fun rolling our eggs  and well done to the bonnet parade winners.

Living and Learning – table manners

We have talked about table manners in our Living and Learning lessons this week. The children shared lots of ideas about how to behave at mealtimes.

We have to use a knife and fork.

In my family, we ask before we can leave the table.

We wait for everyone before we start.

We watched a video about Crawford the Cat and table manners too!

Wizard of Oz

The children enjoyed the performance of the Wizard of Oz today. We will be using it to inspire some writing.

PE

This half term, F2 will have PE on a Thursday morning. Please ensure your child has a named PE kit (white t-shirt, blue shorts/black leggings) and a water bottle in school.

Living and learning: I use good table manners

Today, year 5/6 discussed what is meant by ‘good table manners’. After watching a video on etiquette, we practised setting the table for a dinner party and holding a knife and fork properly. 

Swimming Timetable April/May 2019