We had lots of fun in the rain at Forest Schools this week! We enjoyed exploring the area and seeing out different it feels in different weather. The children enjoyed exploring the mud kitchen area and enjoyed creating picture menus and creating wonderful dishes and drinks for the adults! The children also expressed an interested in making dens with various ropes, twigs and tarps, as well as pond dipping to see if they could spot any frogs. With Jules Jackdaw, our forest school lead, the children had fun using the various tools to create different vehicles. Lots of children wanted to build cars and boats out of branches, sticks and wheels. It is so lovely to see their creativity flourish in our outdoor area.
Our rhyme of the week will be: Hickory Dickory Dock
Our maths work will focus on: Making comparisons according to size – big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallestWe will also be: exploring musical instruments and the sounds they make, practising our scissor skills (snipping playdough, spaghetti, leaves and paper), making autumn crowns in Forest School, and learning to recognise and write our names.
Music: We learnt how to sing the song, ‘Ghost Parade’, (Molly-Rose) and we learnt the ‘tempo’ of music (Klay).
Art: In art, we learnt about abstract art and an artist called ‘Friedensreich Hundertwasser'(Isla). He liked nature but hated straight lines (Willow). We used a viewfinder to find a small piece of his painting then drew it onto a paper and painted it unusual colours (Banjamin). We did it small then bigger – it was really fun (Katy).
PE: In PE, we went to the leisure centre in Wymondham for our swimming lessons (Alarna). It is a great way to exercise (Mabel). We got to simple and fun floats (Hugo). I tried to do a dive but ended up doing a roly-poly jump! (Lauren). In rugby, I enjoyed being a tagger pulling the tags off people’s velcro belt (George). In the first few weeks of Year 5, the sports leaders were revealed as Freddie M, Elliot, Isla, Evangeline, Ben, Bertie and Mabel (Freddie).
Science: We have been up to a lot of stuff including mixing salt into water to make an egg float (Bertie).
French: In French, we have learned the numbers 1 to 31. I used to only know up to 10 (Matt).
History: In history, we learnt about the Ancient Greeks and their gods. The Gods I like are Zeus, Poseidon and Hades (Penny & Willow).
English: In English, we have been doing story starters and all of the things that go in them (Elliot).
Maths: In maths, we are learning about rounding up or down to 1,000,000 (Willow).
We had a brilliant time down in the Forest Schools area with Jules this week. We made things out of wood, climbed trees, made potions, looked for insects and even saw a deer run across the school field! As we’ve been doing our first practice assessments in the mornings, it’s been particularly nice having these sessions to look forward to in the afternoons. A big thank you to Jules!
We were very excited today in France Class as we had a mysterious delivery from the office! A postcard arrived from Bob who had been on his holidays. He asked us to guess where he had been on his holidays. The children created some imaginative letters, artwork and models to send back to him. We thought he had visited the jungle, Africa, a city, the beach and the mountains. I wonder if we will receive a reply!
Our story will be: The Same but Different Too by Karl Newson
Our rhyme of the week will be: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Our maths work will focus on: Comparing, sorting and opposites
We will also be: practising our pincer grips whilst tearing paper for collages for a special art activity and using pegs, listening out for rhyming words, making a collection of items to explore ‘long’ and ‘short’ and ‘big’ and ‘small’ in Forest School, and baking star biscuits to go with our rhyme of the week.
We’ve had some very creative sessions in class with lovely Art and Music lessons. We started our Art unit by experimenting with different sketching pencils and drawing realistic sketches of fruit. These then became more surreal as we started to add unexpected colours. Stay tuned for pictures of how these have now turned into colourful paintings and pastel pictures.
In Music, we have started using Charanga YuStudio on the ipads to compose our own rhythms and layer different drum sounds to create exciting music. We are looking forward to seeing what else we can create on here!
Year 1 had a fantastic time at Forest School. They enjoyed making, investigating and exploring. The children were amazed to see a newt. A very big thank you to Jackdaw Jules and Mrs Boyce for being so lovely and encouraging.
We have had a wonderful start to the year exploring what we know about ‘place value’. We began by working as a team to sort objects by different categories and counting how many were in each set. We used our ‘comparison’ vocabulary to make observations about the different sets. We reminded ourselves how to count objects and actions accurately. We have also been practicing to read numbers as words and making amounts using a variety of equipment. We explored numicon, base ten and bead strings to create amounts.
8-12 Browick Road, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0QW
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