3d Shapes
This week, we have been looking at a selection of 3d shapes: cylinder, sphere, cube, cuboid, cone and triangular prism. The children have learnt the names of these 3d shapes and how to describe them by talking about the number and the shape of the faces. They went on a 3d shape hunt to find them in the environment.
When shown a dice they were able to identify it as a cube. When asked how they knew it was a cube and not a cuboid, a child answered “because it has 6 square faces”. Another child later commented “…our head is like a sphere”.
Challenge
Can your child go on a 3d shape hunt at home? Are they able to find all the 3d shapes we have looked at this week? Can your child name the 3d shapes? Take a picture or bring in some objects for your child to share with the class.
Your child can earn 3 challenge cubes for taking part in the 3d shape challenge.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Yesterday, the Hobgoblin Theatre Company performed a play for us. There was trouble in Fairytale Land. The Evil Queen was doing away with all of the handsome Princes and it was up to the 3 Little Pigs to stop her!
During the production we recognised lots of characters from many fairytales but they were all mixed up into different stories. We saw the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, The Seven Dwarfs, Red Riding Hood and her grandma, the Magic Mirror and many more…
Scholes Gala and Scholes in Bloom
Please come and support our Skipping Crew and WUSU Crew at Scholes Gala this Saturday, 9 June 2018. We would also like as many children as possible to visit the planting stall. Children can take them home, look after them and then bring the plants and join us on judging day for Britain in Bloom on 6 August 2018 at 10am outside school. Scholes in Bloom are going for gold this year!
PE
This half term, F2 will be having their PE lesson on a Friday. Please ensure that your child has a PE kit in school (white t-shirt, navy shorts / tracksuit bottoms and pumps/trainers). We are hoping to get onto the field so please ensure your child has suitable footwear.
Walk to School Week winners
We had hundreds of raffle tickets in the box. Well done to all those who walked, scooted or rode bikes to school before the holidays. The Buffers car park was busy all week. Here are the prize winners. Let’s keep walking!
Walk to School Week 21-25 May 2018
Lots of children have been walking to school this week. The raffle box is getting full. The draw will be made on Friday 25th May (lots of lovely prizes to choose from) so remember to bring your tickets to school so they go in the box. Thank you to The Buffers for allowing us to use their car park so children can walk at least 0.5km to school, even if they live further away!
Swimming – Summer 2
In Summer 2, swimming will remain on a Wednesday and your child will swim once a fortnight. The timetable below indicates what week your child will swim – depending on their class.
|
date |
class |
| Wednesday 6th June | Sunshine class (Mrs Flynn ) |
| Wednesday 13th June | NO SWIMMING |
| Wednesday 20th June | Sunshine class (Mrs Flynn) |
| Wednesday 27th June | Rainbow class (Miss Eckersley) |
| Wednesday 4th July | Sunshine class (Mrs Flynn) |
| Wednesday 11th July | Rainbow class (Miss Eckersley) |
| Wednesday 18th July | Sunshine class (Mrs Flynn) |
Walk to School Week 21-25 May 2018
Next week, 21 – 25 May, is Walk to School Week. Today, each child was given a leaflet and raffle tickets. For each day that your child walks to school, they’ll be able to put a raffle ticket into the box in the school office. Tickets will be drawn and prizes will be won! For those that live too far away to walk the full distance, The Buffers have agreed to let parents/carers park in their car park, so children still have the chance to enter the prize draw (scooting or riding a bike also counts). There are spare leaflets in the school office.
Funky Phonics Stay and Play
Thank you to all the parents/ carers that were able to attend our Funky Phonics stay and play sessions today. The children enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
Many parents/carers have been asking how to support their child when writing. We want the children to be as independent as possible and at school we encourage them to go through the following 5 steps.
When checking their writing we get the children to look for the following:
…as well as ensuring it makes sense.
At this stage your child is using his/her phonic knowledge (phase 2 and 3) to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
Here are some recent examples:
“My mum is having a baby”
“Alex do you want to come to my home?”
“Harry M will you come to my house?”
This is exactly what we would hope to see. The children have thought of a sentence, listened to the sounds that they can hear themselves and have written them independently.
Don’t forget to visit these apps and games to support phonics and letter formation at home.
Making pasta!
Today, we made fresh pasta!
This week in maths, we’ve been looking at how to find half of an object or a group of objects. We’ve been looking at pasta recipes and halving the ingredients. Once we had halved the recipe we were able to make our own pasta!
We used half the eggs and measured half of the flour. Some children were able to work out that if half of two is one then half of 200 is 100! After, we mixed eggs and flour in a bowl. Next, we used our muscles to knead the dough – a fantastic way to build the muscles needed to write.
After the dough had been in the fridge over lunchtime, we used the pasta machine to roll out the dough – another great way to build the muscles needed to write.
Every time the dough came out of the machine we had to fold it in half.
“Two groups that are the same amount!”
We talked about one more and one less when moving up and down the settings on the pasta machine.
The pasta got longer and longer as we put it through the pasta machine – we needed lots of helpers! Everyone worked very well as a team.
Later, we cooked the pasta with some tomatoes and tasted it.
