Squirrel Blog
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Friday 20 May 2022 Fun with maths We have beenlooking at teen numbers, positional language and shapes over the last twoweeks. We have listened to the story of Mr Gumpy's Outing and have made our own boats outside. We have added different numbers of people and worked out the totals. Back in the classroom, wehave added1, 2 and 3 to a number, raced to tenandmadeup First, Then and Now stories using minibeasts. We have also experimented withtangrams to make different pictures and shapes.
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Thursday 19 May 2022 Rosie's Walk We have been looking at the story Rosie’s Walk. We have built farm scenes, drawn maps, used a story map to retell the story and written wanted posters. We have made a class version of the story – changing the characters and the setting. We have all drawn our own story maps and started to write our own version of the story. We have also looked at the different products we get from animals and have revised the names of baby animals (kid, lamb, calf, foal, piglet, cubs, kittens, fawn).
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Friday 13 May 2022 Dinosaur Fossils This week wehave been finding out all about fossils and the work of palaeontologists. We have chipped away at stone eggs to revealdinosaurs, made our own Plaster of Paris fossils, learned about Mary Anning and her discovery, and made salt dough ammonites. We ended the week by learning about the different theories on why dinosaurs died out. We have used our new found knowledge to write descriptions of dinosaurs.
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Wednesday 4 May 2022 A Mysterious Discovery There has been great excitement in Squirrel Class this week following the discovery of a large egg in the outdoor area. We thought it might be a dinosaur egg. To make sure that it was safe, we wrote signs asking people not to touch it and to be quiet around it. There was no sign of the mother, so we decided to build some traps to catch her without hurting her. It worked because on Wednesday night one of the neighbours heard a screeching sound and contacted the Natural History Museum. Two of their palaeontologists drove up to Spooner Row to collect the mother and baby and take them back to London to look after them. They were so pleased with how well we had looked after the egg that they left us a toy dinosaur. We have called him Spikey.
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Friday 22 April 2022 Castle Day
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Friday 1 April 2022 Easter Fun This week we have been looking at the Easter story. We have found out about the key events and the important days. We have made baskets, been on an egg hunt, decorated eggs, written about how we celebrate Easter and sequenced the Easter story.
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Thursday 24 March 2022 Outdoor Fun We enjoyed some early Spring sunshine today. As you can see from the photos, we had lots of fun.
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Thursday 17 March 2022 Growing Seeds
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Monday 14 March 2022 PE - Ball Skills This week we have been working on developing our ball skills. We have been workingon rolling, throwing and bouncing the ball to our partner.
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Friday 11 March 2022 Holi Celebrations We have had a very colourful time this week, celebrating the Indian festival of Holi. We have found India on a map, watched a powerpoint all about Holi and how it is celebrated, thrown coloured powder paint on outlines of people and experimented with colour mixing. We have also carried out lots of colour experiments including walking water, magic milk and colourful skittles. We have listened to the story ‘Chapatti Moon’ and made chapattis out of flour and water.
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Friday 25 February 2022 Look! Look! Look! at Sculpture We looked at the book 'Look!, Look!, Look! at sculpture' by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, as an introduction to sculpture. We studied the sculpture 'Four Rectangles with Four Oblique Circles' by Barbara Hepworth and then had a go at creating our own version using slate coloured playdough.
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Friday 11 February 2022 Whatever Next! This week we have been looking at the book Whatever Next! We have made junk model rockets, straw rockets, raced balloon rockets, found out how rockets work, acted out the first moon landing and found out about the moon. We know that it orbits the earth, doesn’t make its own light, is made of rock and has lots of craters made by rocks crashing into it.
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Friday 4 February 2022 We like to Climb We love climbing on the apparatus and have all become more confident and adventurous. We have been looking at different shapes this half term. See if you can spot us performing tuck, pike, star and straight shapes. We have worked on our own, in pairs and in groups.
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Friday 28 January 2022 Handa's Surprise
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Friday 21 January 2022 The Gingerbread Man We have been looking at the story of The Gingerbread Man this week. We have learned to retell the story ourselves using a story map and actions. We have written a speech bubble for the gingerbread man, made salt dough gingerbread men and baked gingerbread. It was yummy. Some of us have made split pin gingerbread men to help with our scissor control. We also made and tested bridges and boats to see which was the best at helping the gingerbread man to cross the river. We finished the week by carrying out an experiment to see what would happen to the Gingerbread Man if he fell in water, oil and vinegar.
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Tuesday 18 January 2022 Get Creative! We have been creative this week and have made lots of different models. We have learned to design our model first and think carefully about the resources we want to use.
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Tuesday 11 January 2022 Fire Fire! We had great fun playing with the Fire Station role play. We turned the tractor into a fire engine, rescued a cat, put out a series of fires and worked together as a team. We also learned how to call 999 and how to explain which service we required and where the fire was.
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Thursday 16 December 2021 Christmas in Squirrel Class We have had a really busy and fun filled couple of weeks. We have dressed up as elves and helped Santa in his workshop, made snowmen, decorated biscuits, had a Christmas dinner, a Christmas party and had a visit from Father Christmas. We have found out how children in Germany celebrate Christmas. We had a visit from ST Nikolaus who left us sweets in our slippers and we decorated gingerbread houses.
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Friday 10 December 2021 Volcanoes We have been talking about volcanoes and have watched videos of them erupting. When Mrs Newbery said that we could make our own volcanoes, we got very excited. We used modroc for the first time and once it was dry, we painted it grey. Mrs Newbery helped us to use the glue gun to add lava which we painted red. Once the volcanoes were finished, we mixed sodium bicarbonate and vinegar together and watched them 'erupt'. We went on to make pictures of volcanoes, We made them look like they were erupting by blowing the paint. We also learned lots of new vocabulary - erupt, lava, magma, crater and ash.
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Wednesday 1 December 2021 Making Bread We decided to help the Little Red Hen make some bread. We added flour, water and yeast to the bowl and stirred it all together. We put the mixture by the heater and left it until it had doubled in size. We kneaded it again before shaping it into balls and putting it in the oven. The best part was eating it - yummy.
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Wednesday 24 November 2021 Circles and Squares We have been having fun with circles and squares this week. We have named the shapes and investigated their properties. We have printed with 3D shapes to see which ones make circle and square prints, created circular nail art and studied the work of Wassily Kandinsky. We have created our own versions of his famous work 'Concentric Circles'.
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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.
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Thursday 18 November 2021 The Little Red Hen and more ....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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