A fabulous Halloween spooktacular week in Reception! Potions, spells, magical moments and amazing creativity
Michael Jordan
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but I can’t accept not trying”
We have started our new Learning Means The World theme ‘Zero to Hero’ and one of the first people we have looked at is Michael Jordan. We found out that he was turned away from basketball but because he loved the sport he kept trying and trying until he was successful. We then decided that we needed to be a bit like Michael and keep trying our best. We then went outside and tried to shhot some hoops. We found that we got better the more we practiced. We then found out that Nike thought he was that inspirational that they named some sports shoes after him! We decided to design our own ‘Air Jordan’s’.
Today we launched our new theme in LMTW ‘Come Fly with me Arctic
Circle’. We started by discussing that frozen water was ice. The children found out that the Arctic was mainly made of ice and snow and that it is very cold there. We discussed that global warming is affecting the Arctic more and more each day due to climate change. As a class we decided to have an ice challenge to see who could hold the ice for the longest periods without it melting and used classroom objects to prevent it from melting too quickly. This was extremely fun but quite challenging. The children came up with some amazing vocabulary to describe how the ice felt.
Take a look at some of the homework created this half term linked to ‘Lightning Speed’. Well done year 4.
Bonjour !
I’d like to share with you a fun , game based language app that will help your child practice their French language skills at home.
‘Glurbs’- has been created by the Language Angels Team, the scheme we use in school for our French teaching from Years 3 to 6.
It provides ‘learning through play’ in an interactive format the children will love to use at home.
We would just like to say a great big thank you to all our parents and careers who took the time to join us for our parents workshop this week. It was lovely to see so many of you! I know the children loved having you here to share some of our ideas and activities around activities.
In our P.E sessions we have been looking at the skill of jumping and that there are many different ways to jump. We have travelled safely whilst jumping and made up a jumping routine with our friends. We have even been learning how to do a standing long jump (Olympics team watch this space!). We have a jumping great time.
Today the children practiced their exchanging skills by competing against a partner to be the first to reach a given total. To reach their total they were required to exchange the following: ten ones for one ten, ten tens for one hundred and ten hundreds for one thousand.
In our Learning Means The World theme ‘Inter-Nation Media Station’ we have been looking at how tv shows, radio broadcasts and interviews are made. We have looked at the first radio broadcast and the first tv broadcast that changed from black and white to colour. We can not quite believe that some of our Teachers were around when there were only 4 TV channels and they had not heard of a remote control! We love learning about how far our technology has come and we decided to have a go at animating our own character and adding a voice to it. We then discussed what technological advances the future may hold ….time machine perhaps?
We have definitely embraced Autumn in Reception this week! Making Autumn wands, repeating patterns and prints and capacity using conkers. The children have been using their Sounds Write skills and emerging handwriting to write sounds and words. A very busy and fabulous week ❤️
