We have had so much fun exploring our forest school area this week. We were lucky enough to experience all different weather conditions in the forest – from wet and windy to misty and foggy! The children had fun creating shelters and beds to keep warm. The children were also inspired to make natural Christmas tree decorations from a beautiful branch they found! We created ladybirds from seeds we found around the Cherry trees and had lots of fun on the swings.
Our story will be: The Nativity Story
Our rhyme of the week will be: Our Christmas performance songs
Our maths work will focus on: Accurate counting and subitising (recognising small amounts without counting)We will also be: printing Christmas cards using bubble wrap, learning about Christian beliefs about Christmas, painting some Nativity pictures and following instructions to complete a Santa sack race in the garden!
Our story will be: The Dark by Lemony Snicket
Our rhyme of the week will be: Little Jack Horner
Our maths work will focus on: 4 sided shapes
We will also be: investigating light and dark, practising our Christmas performance songs and balancing on 1 leg.
Year 1 had a fascinating morning learning about life in the past, especially in Wymondham. The welcoming and informative staff at Wymondham Heritage Museum explained how shopping has changed since the 1930s and brought life to shopping experiences. We role-played shopping in the past and discussed how it felt to queue. The children handled objects such as brushes, bags, bottles, jars, and records. They also chose potatoes or onions, put them in a paper bag, joined a queue and waited for the shopkeeper to weigh their items. We were amazed that one side of the weighing scales showed the weight of the items and the other side showed the cost. We discussed how technology calculates the weight and cost of loose items today.
In our Real PE session today, we were looking at challenging ourselves with an activity called ‘Exchange Objects’! In this lesson, each pair of children had two hoops, one of which contained 4 objects (2 cones, a ball and a ring). One at a time the children needed to try to move the objects from one ring to the other repeatedly using only their feet! They would have 30 seconds to see how many times they could move an object! There were three levels to this task: Level 1 allowed the children to put 2 hands down behind them as they lifted up their legs and used their feet to pick up the objects. Level 2 asked them to have only 1 hand on the floor and the other arm held over their tummies. Level 3 asked the children to have no hands down at all and try to remain balanced as they worked on their task! It was extremely tricky in places but each child chose a level of challenge they could cope with and gave it their best! Well done, Year 4!
Today, Year 4, 5 and 6 were lucky enough to have the author C.S. Clifford come to work with us! He talked with all of the children in the hall and answered lots of their questions. He also showed them his books and discussed some of the characters and plot points. Once he had spoken, he gave Year 4 a writing challenge! He wanted us to write 3 paragraphs starting with a location he uses in his own books: a waterfall that acts like a portal, transporting the children to a strange place. Then, they needed to describe the place they ended up! It was very much like the English countryside but also very odd! He suggested to the children maybe the trees might be strange colours or textures; maybe they might grow sideways or downwards! Then, they would spot a trail and follow it until they met a large mythical creature! The children were told to make their mythical creature by mixing and matching parts of creatures that already existed! Their final challenge was describing how they would communicate with this creature, who was very friendly and lonely but didn’t speak English!
The author then visited the children in the classroom after break and discussed their ideas and taught them some really good tips for making their writing as good as it can be! Big thanks go out to C.S Clifford for visiting us and making writing so much fun!
It was lovely to be joined by so many parents at our annual Story Morning this week. We are passionate about reading at Nursery, and base our learning around stories whenever we can, and we really enjoyed having the chance to share the experience with our Nursery families. After reading one of our favourites, ‘You Choose’, together, we took our parents to explore some of the different ‘You Choose’-related activities on offer, creating some fabulous hats, choosing our dream pets, and building our ideal homes. Lots of us spent time looking at the stories from the Nursery ‘story spine’ together, too. We were lucky enough to be joined again by Sheila, from Wymondham Library, who was able to help families with joining the library and making the most of all it has to offer.
Our story will be: The Three Little Pigs
Our rhyme of the week will be: Little Bo Peep
Our maths work will focus on: accurate counting – counting spaces in board games
We will also be: starting our letters to Father Christmas, building some strong houses like the cleverest little pig, printing and collaging, creating our own stories, and learning to play ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’
Our story will be: The Dark by Lemony Snicket
Our rhyme of the week will be: London Bridge is Falling Down
Our maths work will focus on: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
We will also be: investigating light and dark, making shadow puppets and talking about how to deal with worries.
We explored what our senses can tell us about religion and belief. To understand the importance of our senses, we explored a piece of chocolate using one sense at a time- taste was our favourite! We learnt about how Hinduism uses all the senses during worship. It was interesting looking at the objects used during puja (the act of Hindu worship).
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