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Sunday 21 November 2021 Pudsey Bear Day On Friday we all came to school dressed in our own clothes and donated £2 to Children in Need. In the afternoon we played lots of different games organised by Oak Class. It was great fun and we raised lots of money to help children less fortunate than us.
Thursday 18 November 2021 The Little Red Hen and more ....
Friday 12 November 2021 Woodwork houses This week we have been looking at families. We have looked at the book ‘The Great Big Book of Families’ and discussed how all families are different and special. We went on to look at photos of our families and talk about the people we live with.
Thursday 11 November 2021 Remembrance Day On Thursday we learned about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. We watched a PowerPoint about soldiers and how brave they were. We made salt dough and coloured it red and green. We used it to make poppies. We also painted some poppy pictures using paint thickened with flour.
Friday 5 November 2021 Bonfire Night On Friday we celebrated bonfire night. We made rocket fireworks, salt paintings and listened to the story of Guy Fawkes. We know that he wanted to blow up the king and the Houses of Parliament but was caught by soldiers.
Monday 1 November 2021 Diwali This week we have celebrated Diwali by listening to the story of Rama and Sita, making divas out of clay and making wooden spoon puppets of the story characters. We have also made coconut barfi sweets, playdough and paper plate rangoli patterns and decorated mehndi hands. We watched a video about how a Hindu family in Leicester celebrate Diwali and ended the week by drawing picturesto show people how Diwali is celebrated.
Monday 18 October 2021 Autumn Term Week 6 - Halloween This week we celebrated Halloween. We came to school in fancy dress and made potions. We got very excited when they started to bubble up and overflow! Our maths work involved making spells by counting out different numbers of rats, bats, spiders and eyeballs. It was all lots of fun!
Sunday 17 October 2021 Making Garlic Bread We have looked at different bulbs, including daffodils, garlic and onions. We learnt thatbulbshave all of the food inside them that they need to grow. The bulb will sleep in the ground until the spring. It will then start to grow and once it has green leaves it will start to make its own food. We used the garlic and parsley from our outdoor area to make garlic bread and it was yummy!
Sunday 17 October 2021 Autumn Walk We went on an autumn walk in the woods and collected things to make a house for a hedgehog to hibernate in. We chose a safe place and built a shelter out of twigs. We added some dry grass and leaves to keep the hedgehog warm. We then went into the farmers field tofind out more about harvest time. The crop had been gathered in and the field was ready to be ploughed.
Sunday 17 October 2021 Repeating Patterns We used natural objects to make repeating patterns. We were able to describe, continue and create our own patterns.
Sunday 17 October 2021 Autumn Leaves This week we have been looking at leaves and how they change in the autumn. We have made different coloured playdough leaves and put them in order from green to brown. We have learnt that leaves make food and that the trees store the food for the winter and don’t need the leaves anymore. This is why they fall off. We have done some observational drawings of leaves and Mrs Newbery was very impressed at how carefully we looked at the leaves. We also had fun leaf bashing outside.
Saturday 9 October 2021 Squirrel Class Week 4 - Signs of Autumn We have been looking at the changes that happen during autumn. We have looked at autumn colours and used conkers to painted our own pictures using yellow, red, orange and brown paint. On Wednesday wewent on a conker hunt. We collected lots and lots and we each got to count out ten to take home. We have put the rest in our sand tray. We had an autumn scavenger hunt in teams on Friday and had to run around the fieldand find lots of leaves, conkers, seeds, pinecones etc. We have learnt what the word hibernate means and have looked at different animals that hibernate. We have all made a clay hedgehog. Some of us have also made scarecrows out of lolly sticks.
Monday 4 October 2021 Squirrel Class Week 3 We have had another fun filled week in Squirrel Class.
Monday 4 October 2021 Humpty Dumpty - Did he fall or was he pushed? There was great excitement in Squirrel Class on Tuesday when we discovered that Humpty Dumpty was cracked on the floor. At first, we thought he'd fallen but we found footprints leading away from the scene. We followed the footprints and used magnifying glasses to find extra clues. Some of us dusted the area for fingerprints, whilst others tried to put Humpty back together again.
Friday 24 September 2021 Week 2 - The Fun Continues This week we have played in our new outdoor role play area, made slime, practised writing the letter c, been super heroes, learned how to count objects by putting them in a line, orally blended with Metal Mike, played with bubbles, played musical instruments and had our first PE lesson. It has been a busy and tiring week, but we have had lots of fun.
Friday 24 September 2021 Week 1 - Getting to know each other We have had a fun first week at school. We have spent time familiarising ourselves with the classroom and outdoor area and have made new friends. We have played in the sand and water, climbed trees, made mud pies, built trains and obstacle courses, painted pictures, made milkshakes and listened to lots of stories! We have learned a rhyme to help us remember to tidy up and a song to help us to listen carefully.
Friday 26 February 2021 Home Learning Week 7 Well done Squirrels on another super week of home learning. Only one week to go now before we are back together in school. This week you have impressed me with your sentence writing and counting on skills. You all remembered to use a capital letter and full stop in your descriptive sentences and I loved reading your versions of how Claire hurt her leg.
Tuesday 16 February 2021 Home Learning Week 6 Well done Squirrels for being so amazing this half term. Learning via Zoom is not easy for anyone, but it is even more difficult when you are only 4 and 5 years old. You should all be really proud at how well you have adapted to home learning. Please say a huge thank you to all of your parents for supporting you so well. Each and every one of you has made progress this half term and I have been blown away by your reading. Fingers crossed we will all be back together in a few weeks but until then have a lovely relaxing half term break and I will see you all on Zoom on Monday 22nd!
Friday 5 February 2021 Home Learning Week 5 Well done on another fantastic week of home learning! This week we have done lots of different activities based around the book Handa's Surprise. We have found Africa on a map, printed with fruit, found one less than a given number, made animal masks, watched Go Jetters, made story maps and written sentences to retell the story. To end the week we had a quiz and Show and Tell session.
Friday 29 January 2021 Home Learning Week 4 Another fantastic week of home learning from everyone. We have been doing work based around the book ‘Whatever Next!’ We have written questions and lists, made rockets, carried out an experiment to find the best material to make an umbrella from, made blow rockets and found out about the first moon landing! In maths we have made clocks, learned to tell the time to o’clock and have measured different objects using non standard units. On Friday we had a quiz to check our understanding and we all impressed Mrs Newbery with our answers. Take a look at some of the super work we have all done.
Friday 22 January 2021 Home Learning Week 3 Congratulations on another fantastic week Squirrels. You have completed some super work based on the story of Stanley's Stick. I have been particularly impressed with your maths work. It was lovely to see Matilda using what she had learned about symmetry last week in her stick picture and to see Oliver learning about tallying. Well done Catelyn for making all of the numbers to 10 out of sticks and Emily for using her sound cards to make words to splat. Theo, I loved the sword you made out of a stick and Oscar, Sienna and Hattie your stick measuring was super. Peaches and Layla-Grace your parrot and witch sticks were great and Alba, Teddy and Ella well done for working so hard at school. Willow, I have been impressed with how hard you have tried with your phonics this week - well done. Charlie, your starring role in Tilly's video was worthy of an Oscar!
Friday 15 January 2021 Home Learning Week 2 Well done Squirrels on another fantastic week of home schooling. You have continued to amaze me with how well you are coping with remote learning. We have managed to learn 3 new sounds this week and everyone has made progress with their numbers. I was so impressed with how well all of you coped with the symmetry work. I enjoyed hearing you read and wanted to say how proud I am of all of you. Well done to those children who completed the activities.Â I have loved looking at all of the photographs of you having fun at home.
Friday 8 January 2021 Home Learning Week 1 Well done Squirrels on a fantastic first week of home learning. I am so proud of how well you have adapted to learning on Zoom. I have loved looking at the photos you have sent me, watching your puppet shows and reading about your favourite presents. Well done to Emily who was this week's Star of the Week for completing all of the activities. I look forward to seeing you all next week on Zoom. Keep up the good work - you are all stars!
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