Today in 1 Blue, we have been looking at fairytales as a part of our Learning Means The World Theme. We read the story of Little Red Riding Hood and we decided to get our aprons ready in order to bake Grandma’s cookies like in the story. We had a go at weighing out the ingredients, mixing them together and then we cut out our own cookies. We can’t wait to taste them!
7 Blue had a great first week in school. Everyone was in school on time, looking smart and ready to learn.
The children enjoyed exploring their new class, making new friends and completed some fantastic work! We read the book POW by Neil Clark, the story promotes lots of resilience and the importance of having a growth mindset.
After reading the book the children designed their own superhero then went on to create a comic strip showing their superhero helping someone.
We ended the week discussing the power of positivity and exploring a range of strategies we can use this year to help us manage any ‘big feelings’ we experience.
I am really looking forward to the year ahead and can’t wait to see what the children achieve this year when they put their positive mindsets into practice!
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4 Red have been learning some new vocabulary this week in guided reading. They played a game of connect 4 to see who could collect the greatest number of words. A fantastic start to the year!
This week in 4 Red we have been learning about the ‘tempo’ of music and how that can effect how music makes you feel. We explored this by creating some artwork inspired by music with different tempos The children have also composed some of their own pieces of music in the major key of C.
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Today in 1 Red we had our first PE session, we focused on running and jumping and what it entails to run and jump safely and correctly. We practiced lots and showed our moves to our friends and in turn we ere able to say how we could improve to make our movements better. We learnt that exercise and fitness helps us to grow, be strong, get our heart beating and to be healthy.
Today in 1 Red we have been scientists in LMTW focusing on life cycles of various things. We mainly focused on the life cycle of the frog today and discussed the changes frogs goo t through. We used story stones, jigsaws and pictures to order the life cycle and described what happens at each stage.
Today in 1 Red we had our first music lesson. We looked at various musical instruments and played each one to see what sound they each made. Today’s lesson was focused on pitch and tone where the children were given an instruction and they had to follow them using the instrument. We then sang some familiar songs and played the instruments. Great fun was had by all.
