Orienteering lesson
Year 5 and 6 thoroughly enjoyed their PE lesson this week. Mixing their skills in position and direction from maths lessons and endurance from PE, children followed detailed maps and used electronic ‘dippers’ to show where they had been.
You could continue the learning at home by creating a map of your house and making a ‘treasure map’ for your family to follow.
5/6M Creative Homework – design a game
5/6 M responded to our creative homework this week with great enthusiasm. Some children made their own board games while others decided to design their own computer game using Scratch or Kodu.
Ask your child which game they enjoyed the most. You might like to continue making more games throughout our time travel topic. Perhaps, you could research some games from throughout history.
Herd Farm presentation
If you missed our meeting about the year 4 residential to Herd Farm, please find the link below to the see the presentation we used.
Smelly Science
All the year 1 and 2 classes did some science last week. We focused on making sensible predictions. We talked about our senses and then used our sense of smell, predicting what we thought was hidden in a selection of boxes.
I thought it was shampoo but it was soap!
I knew it was an orange straight away. I’ve smelt them before.
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.
