Outdoor PE
Children have enjoyed outdoor PE lessons this week. We’ve been particularly working on skipping skills. Please could you ensure your child has some blue/black tracksuit bottoms to wear (bare legs can get a bit chilly) and suitable shoes for outdoor PE (trainers, pumps or well-fitted school shoes are fine – not boots). If you’ve any trainers that your child has grown out of and would like to donate them to school for our spares box, we would be most grateful.
Living and Learning – Body Image
We’ve been thinking about body image for the last few weeks. We read the The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson a few weeks ago and have referred back to it when discussing this topic. The sentiment of the story is to not judge others on their looks. This is such an important message for our children. We encourage them to treat everyone the same, regardless of looks, age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief.
We’ve also been reading The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. It prompted lots of discussion about how important it is to value yourself and your own qualities and traits.
Tap, tap, tap…. crack!
There has been a lot of excitement in nursery today: two of the eggs have started to crack!
Children were able to see a tiny hole this morning and when we looked again at the end of the day, it had got bigger. We listened carefully and could hear the chicks chirping and cheeping inside. One of the eggs wobbled as the chick moved around inside.
We can’t wait to see if they’ve managed to break free from their shells and have fully hatched on Wednesday morning! Watch this space…
Science Week
Last week was Science week and we had lots of visits from a special scientist – Professor Myers (Mrs Myers’ twin sister!).
The children enjoyed making predictions (a sensible guess) and then observing the experiments to see if they were right. We were able to observe the effects of some experiments immediately and for others we had to be patient and wait a few days.
We made a raw egg bounce.
We observed daffodils change colour.
We blew up a balloon by mixing bicarbonate soda with vinegar.
We made lava come out of a bottle and looked at the density of different liquids (honey, oil and water).
Challenge time…
- Can your child tell you which was their favourite experiment from Science week?
- Can they draw a picture and label it or write a sentence about the experiment?
Here are some excellent examples of children’s writing about Science week.
Please bring in or email your child’s comments/drawing/writing to share with the class. This challenge is worth 3 challenge cubes.
Spare clothes needed!
We’re in desperate need of spare school clothes in F2. If you have any spare school clothes – trousers, skirts, tights, leggings, t-shirts, jumpers or cardigans – that your child has now out-grown, we’d greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Doctors, shapes and rainy day games!
As we expected, our Doctors surgery has been extremely busy and it has been very tricky to make an appointment! The children have impressed staff with their knowledge; they recognise lots of the equipment that doctors and nurses use and they have used it appropriately in their role play. It has been great to see children cooperating, taking turns and taking on the role of a doctor, nurse or patient to recreate familiar scenarios of their visits to the doctors.
We continued learning about shapes on a ‘Shape hunt’ around school. There were lots of familiar shapes in the environment and children are beginning to talk about some of their properties (such as the number of sides, round/curved sides). Towards the end of the week, the wet weather made it quite tricky to go outside so we turned to some more traditional ‘rainy day’ games to have fun! A group of children worked together to invent their own game, rolling a ball backwards and forwards to each other.
It’s the final countdown! We all have our fingers crossed and are really hoping that we might hear some tapping and cracking noises coming from the incubator during the middle of next week. As you can imagine, the children are very excited and are always asking questions about the eggs. This week, we tried to answer the question “Why are the chicks in water (in the shell)?” We used a little yellow chick, a bag of water and a plastic egg to try and work out the answer.
Week 5 – What are we learning this week?
This week, we’ll be learning all about eggs and chicks! We will…
- Learn about the life cycle of a hen and hopefully watch some chicks hatch
- Read the story of ‘Hattie Peck’ and find out about other animals that lay eggs
- Investigate eggs – What’s inside the shell? What do boiled and scrambled eggs look like?
- Practise our counting skills – How many eggs are there in the nest? Which nest has the fewest/most eggs? Can you put __ eggs in the nest?
- Develop our fine motor skills in the Fiddly Fingers area using tongs to pick the chicks out of the nest
Home Link – Easter Songs
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be singing some Easter songs and rhymes. It would be great if you could enjoy singing them at home together too.
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Five Little Chicks (Sung to the tune of Five Little Ducks)
Five little chicks went walking one day,
into the barn and around the hay.
Mother hen says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck, CLACK!”
And four little chicks came wandering back.
Four little chicks…
Three little chicks…
Two little chicks…
One little chick went walking one day,
into the barn and around the hay.
Mother Hen says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck, CLACK!”
And five little chicks came wandering back.
You could use some props whilst singing ‘5 Little Chicks’. Lots of shops sell mini chicks for £1 that you could use. Ask your child to count out 5 and then take one away each time.
Living and Learning – Body Image
Our Living and Learning topic is body image.
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin, colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
In Year 3/4, we’ve been discussing the importance of being different and celebrated our differences today during Circle Time: “We all have imaginations, but what we imagine is different.” Klayton, Year 3/4E
The children also recognised that although we may look different we often share similar strengths and weaknesses.
Living and Learning: I can receive a compliment sensibly.
We’ve been thinking about how to receive compliments this week.
Giving and receiving compliments is a good way to make and keep friends and create positive relationships. We’ve reflected on how we react when we get a compliment. It can make someone’s day if we say thank you! Equally, it’s upsetting if you give a compliment that isn’t received well.
Homework review
During our homework review, 1K enjoyed sharing the different ways they counted by 2s,5s and 10s at home. We discussed a range of objects that we could count and worked in pairs to create posters to show our ideas.
- ‘We counted in 2s using eyeballs!’
- ‘We can use Numicon to count in 2s.’
- ‘I used my hand because I have 5 fingers.’
- ‘We drew 10 pencils, 10 teeth and 10 part whole models.’
