PE and secret maths
1,2V enjoyed an outdoor PE lesson, making use of the new basketballs. There was also some ‘secret’ maths included – counting in 10s as you bounce your ball to your partner.
Maps, maps and more maps!
It’s the end of our mini-topic, ‘Where in the World’, so we’ve spent some time looking at OS maps of our area and investigating what the symbols in the key means. Maps are really interesting and fun. We’ve really enjoyed finding our school and Scholes.
Class 3/4F – Homework to wow me!
Take a look at these amazing pieces of homework! The children were inspired by last week’s homework!
They’ve shown me creativity, motivation and invention! The vehicles can travel across the sky, the land, under and across the sea. I’ve been really impressed! Well done, everyone!
Crazy about conkers!
As you will have probably noticed, we have a lot of conkers in Nursery at the moment and children are still enjoying finding more! It’s amazing just how many learning opportunities they have provided:
- counting
- weighing
- comparing sizes and ordering
- making patterns
- using tongs to pick them up (This is a great way to help children develop and strengthen the muscles of the hands and fingers.)
- observational drawing (Make sure you have a look at some of the artwork on display in the Rainbow room)
- conker rolling paintings
- discussions about texture
- conversations about the changes in seasons
- hide and seek games with friends outside
There are lots of Autumn activities you could do at home:
- The Woodland Trust has a selection of Nature Detectives activity sheets that you can download and print. Here is a link to the Autumn leaf Nature Detective sheet – you could go on a leaf hunt and see which leaves you can find. Talk about the different shapes, colours and sizes and don’t forget to tell us about your adventures at home.
- There are lots and lots of Autumn activities on the Imagination Tree’s website. We particularly like the creative ideas involving painting with different sticks and leaves and conker rolling in paint. It’s great to explore different ways of making marks and patterns.
- There are a few links to Autumn themed games and activities on the CBeebies website. We like to count leaves in our Nursery garden and enjoy having a go at ‘squigling’ using zig-zag and wavy lines.
Living and Learning – I am resilient and resourceful
Our Living and Learning statement this week deals with two more of our 8 Rs for learning – being resilient and resourceful.
Being resilient isn’t easy, especially when you find things hard. Our story, “Izzy Gizmo“, helped us to talk about times when we just want to give up. The message in the book helped us to understand that we must keep trying even when we are faced with difficulties.
Time Travel and Transport
Time Travel
We’ve kicked off our Time Travel topic with some learning about chronology, looking at how transport has changed over time. The children pieced together a timeline of different transport designs.
For homework last week, the children created their own type of transport and we certainly had some imaginative designs. The quality and variety of models were wonderful to see.
Living and Learning- Resourceful and Resilient
This week, we’ve been thinking about the resourceful squirrel and the resilient tortoise. We’ve made posters to help us remember the ‘8Rs’ that we have discussed so far. Can you remember which animal goes with which learning skill?
Reading meeting
Thank you to those who came to the reading meeting yesterday. We hope you found the evening informative and have lots of ideas on how to be involved in your child’s reading journey. When teaching phonics we teach the children the pure sounds e.g. ‘sss’ not ‘suh’.
If you didn’t attend the meeting, your child will be bringing their reading book home tonight. It’s in a reading wallet which your child needs to bring to school every day. Please keep your child’s reading wallet separate to your child’s book bag. Your child will be expected to put the reading wallet in a box (just like their book bags) every morning. The contents expected to be bought into school everyday are labelled on the wallet.
Most importantly – have fun reading!
Great games in 5/6NK
This afternoon, 5/6NK have had a brilliant time in our homework review. The children were set the task of creating a game to entertain the children in their class. I was extremely impressed with the effort all the children had gone to in order to create board games, outside games, computer games, card games and sketching games. The children thoroughly enjoyed trying them all out. They talked about what they enjoyed the best about each game.
‘I really liked Archie’s game. I liked that you had to memorise where the times table questions were to find a pair.’ Reuben
‘Lilia’s game was fun and I will play it again.’ Freya
What are these bricks my child keeps talking about?
This week, we’ve introduced your child to challenges. Challenging activities are around the classroom for your child to complete to earn a brick. The aim is to get a tower of bricks taller than five. Challenges include the learning we’re focusing on throughout the week – for example, writing our name. Ask your child what challenges they’ve done this week.
We talked about who had more and who had fewer bricks. If your child’s tower was more than five, your child will come home with a certificate!
