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We will go to Dinky Town on Tuesday. If you are considering volunteering and haven't confirmed yet, please let the office know by Email or in person on Monday. Parents for Team Spurrier would need to arrive and be at the office reception by 9.15 and parents for Team Jones would need to arrive and be at the office reception by 10.15.
Due to record label demands and contractual obligations, green/blue room are busy rehearsing and performing Christmas songs ahead of their much anticipated Christmas tour and album. Despite seasonal deadlines, we have been working on some new, original material. We have written a future classic: Dance Party, and it's equally amazing b-side: We Are Making Dinner. Watch the music press (this blog) for some behind the scenes content from the top secret recording sessions.
Included is the top secret demo created by blue room who came up with We Are Making Dinner and the questionable food combination in verse 2.
(ask your kids if they can recite the lyrics or sing the songs!)
This week we learnt about firefighters, lifeguards and the coastguard. We did some amazing science experiments alongside the lessons. We predicted which materials would put out a fire and then tested them. Water and Sand were the clear winners but ask your child about which materials didn't work (paper and wood) and which object was surprisingly effective (a tiny frying pan from our home corner!). Our second experiment involved testing whether objects float or sink. A surprising amount of objects floated, even our good friend the plastic bear floated which surprised all the children and staff who predicted it would sink. Thankfully our much loved black stone came to save the day; sinking impressively. This allowed the class lifeguard (one of the children's colour changing plastic toys) to dive in and save the poor stone, allowing it to be used once again to represent numbers in maths!
(Due to the high octane, high pressure scientific environment, we forgot to document these experiments).
This week we looked at positional language and the number 4 and 5. We learnt lots of words relating to positional language and played lots of games where either our good friend, Fred the frog, our good friend the plastic bear, or the children themselves moved around learning the words. We did lots of counting and subitising and also represented 4 and 5 in many ways. My favourite was drawing an animal with 4 legs and labelling the legs.
We are SO excited to perform to you all!
Design and make a superhero costume!
We have made a great start in our English lessons this term. We are following Read Write Inc. and the children have now split up in to smaller groups for the lessons. I spoke to many parents about how good it is to practise the set 1 sounds at home and some parents have asked for resources for relatives. We posted a blog before which includes a lot of resources and in this post is a higher resolution copy of the set one sounds along with their rhymes. Below is also a video of a short introduction video and a video which shows viewers how to say the sounds.
Introduction video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOJUPNVnLc
Set one sounds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yln6PpV1G1I
Our FIRST school trip!!
Today we started our new topic for the term: Our Heroes. We introduced the topic and what Our heroes means (a person admired for great deeds or fine qualities) and discussed the heroes in our life and community. The children had some great hero examples, and we talked about family, friends, emergency service staff, postal service staff, shop assistants and pets! We also read My Dad is Brilliant, and My Mum is Brilliant by Nick Butterworth.
Today we looked in depth at the numbers 1, 2, 3. We clapped out the numbers, counted on our fingers, counted loose parts and then looked at the numerals. The children made some amazing posters and focussed well on the table and carpet activities. Mr O'neill also took some children on a number hunt in the outside space. See if you can spot the numbers 1, 2 and 3 represented in public, you could count trees, cars, trains, the moon...anything.
We created another genre bending, truly original, incredibly amazing story today. Monster and his friend, the teddy unicorn, were incredibly hungry. To their dismay the cupcake factory was shut, but they had heard an amazing rumour that there was something tasty hidden in the castle. Ask your children to tell you the story and explain what my (practically indecipherable) drawings actually are!
The children came in to school today with some amazing hairstyles and spooky costumes. One child's transformation was so spectacular that no teachers recognised him at first! The children had a monster mash party in sport and then a little party in the class before home time to celebrate all the class marbles we have collected for amazing collective group work (the class favourites 'we will rock you' and 'eye of the tiger' were on heavy rotation). Hopefully the children also informed you about my venture into vegetable based headwear!
