Squirrel Blog
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Friday 27 January 2023 London Landmarks
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Wednesday 25 January 2023 Let's Talk Birds On Wednesday morning, Allan from Talk Wildlife came in and talked to us about birds. He brought in feathers, nests and replica eggs. We got to handle a tiny hummingbird egg and a huge ostrich egg. He even brought in the egg of an extinct elephant bird and it was bigger than our heads!! We learnt that having feathers is what makes birds different to other animals. Mrs Newbery has signed up to the Big Schools’ Birdwatch and we will be making bird feeders next week before heading out to look for birds the following week.
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Friday 13 January 2023 Magnet Art and More! We have continued our work on magnets and had a fun afternoon painting with them and testing the strength of different magnets. We used lots of magnetic objects like springs, keys, screws, paperclips and magnetic counters to create different patterns as we pulled them through the paint. We have also discovered that magnets work in water. We have a new magnet set in the classroom and we really enjoyed getting the cars to move without touching them.
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Friday 13 January 2023 Spanish Mrs Scarborough from WHS came in this week to teach us some Spanish words. She started by telling us that lots of South American countries speak Spanish and that some of our favourite films are based in Spanish speaking countries. She then taught us how to say hello and goodbye in different ways, depending omn the time of day. We finished the session with a fun game of Who's hiding We had to guess the well known character behind the egg and say hello to them in Spanish.
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Wednesday 11 January 2023 We are Architects! We read the book Iggy Peck, Architect and had a go at building our own tall buildings and towers. We worked in groups and used boxes, marshmallows, cocktail sticks, magnet sticks, metal balls and magnetic tiles. We measured each of the towers to see which group had built the tallest one.
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Friday 6 January 2023 Let's Investigate Magnets We took the magnets outside to investigate which materials are magnetic. We had great fun testing objects around the playground and were surprised by some of our findings. We now know that not all metals are magnetic! We continued our work on magnets back in the classroom by making our own fishing games and mazes. We tested different materials to see which ones we could add to our fish shapes.
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Friday 16 December 2022 Christmas Fun We had a fun last week of term. We played in Santa's Workshop, dressed up as elves and practised our wrapping and weighing skills. We also made sock snowmen, chocolate crispy cakes and star decorations. We ended the week with a joint Fox and Squirrel Christmas party.
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Friday 9 December 2022 Santa Dash We loved wearing our Christmas jumpers and hats. We all took part in the Santa Dash on Friday afternoon. Who knew that you could have so much run running around the playground!
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Thursday 8 December 2022 Dissolving We have been investigating different materials to see which dissolve and which don't. We tested sand, coffee, tea leaves, sugar and salt. We ended the day by making jelly. We recorded our results in pictures.
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Thursday 8 December 2022 Marble Run We have continued to practise our hammering skills by working together to make a class marble run. We had to hammer nails into the wood in diagonal lines and keep testing it to make sure that the marble was moving along and not getting stuck.
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Tuesday 6 December 2022 Christmas in Germany
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Friday 2 December 2022 A Visitor to Squirrel Class This afternoon Theo's daddy brought in a little puppy that they were looking after. We all got to stroke him and thought he was very cute!
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Friday 25 November 2022 Numbers, Numbers, Numbers! We have worked with numbers 1 to 8. We have found different ways to arrange 4 and 5 cubes and have worked as a team to make sure that we found all of the different arrangements. We have used tens frames to help count objects, have subitised to 5 using bean bags, made number paper chains, made one more and one less towers and used five frames to find different compositions of 5.
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Monday 21 November 2022 The Proudest Blue This week our writing has been based on the book ‘The Proudest Blue’. We have learnt about hijabs and have had a go at putting one on. We have also designed our own head scarves. We have learned lots of new vocabulary and have used it to write similes.
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Friday 18 November 2022 Pudsey Day
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Thursday 17 November 2022 Nail Art As part of our work on ‘The Dot’, we have created some nail art pictures. We hammered tacks into wood and then wrapped rainbow coloured wool around the tacks to create a dot themed picture. We are very proud of our work.
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Tuesday 15 November 2022 Circle Art As part of our work on ‘The Dot’, we have experimented with colour mixing and have made positive and negative dot pictures using pompoms to print the smaller circles. We now know how to make the three secondary colours.
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Friday 11 November 2022 Amazing Writing We have continued our writing based on the Cbeebies ‘Poppies’ video clip. We went outside to look at the sky and generated words to describe the clouds. We then went back inside and created a bank of words to use in our independent writing. We all wrote a simile to describe poppies. We are really proud of our writing.
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Friday 11 November 2022 The Dot We have looked at the book The Dot to help us with our creativity. On Monday, Mrs Newbery gave us all a sheet of paper with a dot on it and asked us to mark make on the paper. On Tuesday, we used different medium (stickers, crayons, paints and felt pens) to decorate three different sized dots. On Wednesday, we used bottle tops to make pictures and to experiment with colour mixing. On Friday, we used cotton buds to make patterns on dots. We will be continuing our creative streak next week.
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Tuesday 8 November 2022 Fireworks, Fireworks, Fireworks!
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Sunday 6 November 2022 Going Round in Circles
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Sunday 6 November 2022 Phonics Fun This week we took our phonics outside and had a word relay. We had to take it in turns to read a word and then run to the end of the playground to find the matching picture card.
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Friday 4 November 2022 Explosive Fun A little bit of fun before the magic of Bonfire Night!
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Friday 4 November 2022 On Sudden Hill We have continued our work on the book, ‘On Sudden Hill’. We have learned lots of new vocabulary and have had a go at talking and writing sentences. we have really impressed Mrs Newbery with our writing.
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Tuesday 1 November 2022 Diwali Day
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Monday 31 October 2022 Halloween On Monday, we had our Halloween Day. We came in fancy dress and took part in lots of fun activities, including spider’s web threading, potion making, hammering golf tees into pumpkins, a cauldron toss and a themed phonics hunt.
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Thursday 20 October 2022 Wind chimes As part of our work on the seasons and weather, we have made wind chimes out of cutlery, sticks and beads.
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Tuesday 18 October 2022 Boxes! Boxes! Boxes! As part of our work on the book, ‘On Sudden Hill’, we worked in groups to turn an empty box into something new. We worked well together and created some amazing rockets, racing cars and tractors. We used our creations in our play.
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Monday 17 October 2022 Make that Shape! In PE we have continued our work on shapes and have learnt a straddle and pike shape to add to the tuck, straight and star shapes we learnt last week. We have performed these on the low apparatus and some of us have had a go at some partner work.
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Friday 14 October 2022 Space Adventure Our PE lesson today took us on an adventure into space. We moved in different ways to explore the moon before finding some mystery eggs. The eggs started to jiggle and we had to move them around our bodies to stop them from cracking. We learnt that there is much less gravity on the moon so you can jump higher. We practised jumping side to side, forwards and backwards and over craters.
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