PE – Hulk Smash
All Year 1 and 2 classes are learning a new games this half term to improve our agility, balance and coordination. We started the game this week – bouncing balls, moving and bouncing and adding in actions to make is more difficult. You have to really ‘smash’ bounce the ball to have enough time to do a spin before catching it, for example.
Help at home by asking your child to explain how to play the game (and maybe even play a game together).
Here are some pictures from 1,2B’s lesson.
PE – basketball
This half term, we are developing our basketball skills. Today we were learning how to pass the ball with increasing accuracy – using bounce and chest passes. The children increased the distance of their throws to add more challenge. We then used our skills within Possession Ball – a fast paced team game. There was some brilliant dribbling and passing and even better communication between the children We ended the lesson working on our personal best challenges. How fast can we dribble the ball between a set of cones? They will do this each week and hopefully break their previous records!
Happy Easter from 1A
Thankyou for allowing your child to participate in our egg rolling competition. We had lots of fun! Well done to our winners.
Our Easter disco class pics.
Have a wonderful holiday. Looking forward to all that lies ahead in the Summer term!
Living and Learning – I know how to cope with change
KS1 have been thinking about the range of emotions that we all feel. Having emotions makes us human. We have explored a range of videos and scenarios in which we try to identify what other people might be feeling. Our motto has been: ‘Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.’ How might you feel, if it happened to you? Such focused learning has helped us to identify with others. We have shared about changes in our lives that have made our emotions roller coaster. For example: moving school, becoming a big brother/sister, moving house have all been topics of change. Top tips on how to cope with change were shared:
Tell a trusted adult how you feel.
Take a deep breath and be brave.
You won’t feel sad forever.
You will make new friends.
Such super stars!
Egg rolling competition
Thank you for providing the decorated hard-boiled eggs for our egg rolling competition this week. It was very egg-citing seeing which one rolled the furthest in each class. Well done to all the winners.
Have a happy and healthy (ish – with the obligatory chocolate) Easter break and we will look forward to see you on 15th April.
Topic – computing
We have thoroughly enjoyed our computing topic this half term.
We learnt about commands, algorithms and programs. After designing and planning our games, we made big versions of them this week and played them using the BeeBots. It was great!
Help at home by playing an algorithm game – giving precise instructions to do something (with a blindfold if you’re brave…).
Science – plants
KS1 have been learning about plants and growing in science this half term.
We have observed closely as peas and beans germinated in front of our eyes. We’ve planted some herbs and watched a cutting from a willow tree sprout roots (which we have now planted).
We predicted what the seedlings will look like after the holidays – watch this space!
Help at home by planting something, nurturing it and watching it grow.
Easter
Although it was a shorter week than usual, it’s been a very busy one!
We enjoyed learning about Easter celebrations and taking part in some traditional Easter activities. Children made their own Easter cards and practised drawing patterns to decorate an egg outline.
We loved making Easter nests and tasting Hot Cross Buns.
Outside, children enjoyed playing egg hunt games with their friends, taking turns to hide and then find the eggs. We practised our counting skills at the same time and compared how many eggs we’d found with the eggs in our friend’s baskets.
How many blue eggs did you find? Who has the most/fewest?
We hope that you have a lovely holiday and we’ll look forward to hearing all about your adventures when we return to Nursery on Monday 15 April.
Rabbits don’t lay eggs!
Rabbits Don’t Lay Eggs
This week, we’ve been reading Rabbits Don’t Lay Eggs by Paula Metcalf.
Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off auto play – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.
The story begins on a farm, with a rabbit named Rupert. All he wants is to be useful but unfortunately, he struggles to find anything he’s good at. Luckily, he soon finds an unexpected job on the farm.
Our ‘word of the week’ is creation – something that is made or created.
“Come look at my creation!”
“The creation of new life, like lambs.”
We also spotted some other adventurous words in the story.
Giggled to laugh lightly and repeatedly (a lot) in a silly way.
“When I told a knock-knock joke. Finlay giggled!” said Rupert.
Glumly to look unhappy and disappointed.
We also talked about writing the story from the farmers perspective. How would he feel waking up to no vegetables? To seeing Rupert running across his field? The children wrote some fantastic stories!
Maths
In Maths, we have been sorting objects by attributes.
They are sorted by colour.
They’re big and they’re small.
Those bears have scarves and they don’t.
Poetry Picnic
Each week we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers. This week’s poem is called A Tiny Seed.
We talk about how a poem sometimes has rhyming words and sometimes doesn’t. Can your child tell you the rhyming words in this week’s poem? We also talk about how a poem can have a fast rhythm or a slow rhythm.
We always look at two words in the poem and share the definition. This week, we looked at the following words.
sow – plant (seed) by scattering or putting in soil
shower – a short period (time) of rain
We finished the week with lots of Easter themed activities. The egg rolling competition was a real highlight of the day!
Home learning
Can you write a daily diary about your half term? A sentence a day would be fantastic! Please bring your diary in to share when we return to school.
Writing reminder
Remember, it is okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling correctly is important. It encourages your child to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
It is important you do not let your child simply copy your writing. They need to use their phonics skills to write. Here is an example of a child’s writing in Reception.
Have a fantastic half term!
Reminders and Dates
SWIMMING DATES- Summer 1
Rainbow Class- 17 April, 1 May, 15 May
Sunshine Class- 24 April, 8 May, 22 May
Egg rolling 2C
See our photographs from our egg rolling competition today. Thank you everybody for getting involved!
Well done Ella for rolling your Incredible Hulk egg the furthest, enjoy your prizes!
Have a wonderful Easter break everybody!