The final countdown to the big Ho! Ho! Ho!
The final countdown to the big Ho! Ho! Ho! This week has seen all manner of Christmas activities going on in school ranging from selection box bingo and our class party to carols round the crib and cake decorating. We’ve all had so much fun but now we are ready for a good rest ready for all the…
What do you get if you stick cocktail sticks into marshmallows?
What do you get if you stick cocktail sticks into marshmallows? A great maths lesson about 3D shapes. The children really enjoyed making all manner of different shapes and discussing their various properties. We also managed to finish our letters to Father Christmas this week, persuading him that…
Stewed fruit?
Stewed fruit? I don’t think so! We had lots of strange faces this week as we tried some stewed berries – Stone Age style. Mrs Crowther tried to convince us that it would be just like eating jam but even she screwed up her face when she tried it. The problem is jam has lots of sugar in it which…
So many things have happened this week but at the top of the list has been lots of practice for our Christmas play
So many things have happened this week but at the top of the list has been lots of practice for our Christmas play. Lots of singing and lots of drama. In between practices we have been finding out exactly what Stone Age people ate and how they would have cooked it. Molly brought in a piece of…
Did cavemen really live in caves?
Did cavemen really live in caves? Well to be honest at first they did. As time passed however they began to move around much more and needed to build themselves their own shelters when no caves could be found. This week we had lots of fun in the Garden of Eden being hunter/gatherers and collecting…
Were cavemen artists?
Were cavemen artists? Of course they were – all over the world there is evidence of early art on cave walls and this is what we have been studying this week. Obviously Mrs Blackledge wouldn’t want us drawing on the walls in school so we used sand paper to give a texture that was a bit like the…
Our classroom turn into a cave
This week has seen our classroom turn into a cave as we have begun our topic on the Stone Age. Over the holidays several children have built their own mini Stonehenge, we even had an edible one! We have been reading all about a Stone Age boy called Rocky who is just desperate for adventure and…
Exciting news!
Exciting news! This week Mrs Crowther has got out the brand new recorders and we have been using them in our music lesson. We only had 2 notes to play but it was quite tricky to get our hands in the right place. We managed to play along with the song we are working with, the reggae classic ‘Three…
We really feel like juniors this week!
This week has been another action packed one. We really feel like juniors this week as we have been learning the grown up way to do written addition calculations and do you know what, we’re pretty good at it. On Friday we had a visit from an Olympic athlete who did some work with us on fitness and…
What an exciting morning.
What an exciting morning. Today we have learnt about perimeter but rather than just measuring around the outside of shapes on a piece of paper we got to make our own. We used art straws to make our own shapes. We measured each of the sides and then added them together to find the total length of…
Junior Taster Day
Junior Taster Day. On Tuesday we welcomed the Year 2 children into the Juniors so they could see what it was like to be in the ‘big’ part of school. We had a little chat about anything they might be worried about and how the juniors were just the same as the infants really. We had a look round so…
This week we have done lots of work on programming …
This week we have done lots of work on programming and have learnt how to programme a set of traffic lights in sequence as well as controlling and alien spaceship. Now that we are masters at programming we have started to write our own very simple computer game using a range of commands as well as…