In 2 Blue this week we have been looking at measuring in centimetres and metres. We have measured long and short items around our classroom and in the wider school. We looked at all of the different ways in which measuring can be done, our favourite was the Trundle wheel! We know that to get an accurate measurement we must make sure we line our ruler or tape measure up nice and straight and that we start at zero.
Reception have been showing off their independent reading, writing and maths skills. We have been reading words, hunting for them outside and writing sentences. We are using skittles, counters and objects to investigate number bonds of 10. We have decorated pots and then sprinkled cress seeds in to make cress heads. We talked about what the seeds need so that they will grow. We have some new additions to Reception. Everyone was so excited to see the frogspawn. We will be investigating how they change, grow and how we can look after them.
We had an awesome day celebrating World Book Day. We took part in lots of different activities throughout the day. We performed our favourite traditional tale in the Performance Area and then we listened to a story in Hansel and Gretel’s cottage. Later on, we built a bridge for the three Billy goats, built a giant beanstalk for Jack to climb and made houses for the three little pigs.
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7 Blue have been exploring the traditional tale ‘The boy who cried wolf’. We decorated our classroom door and the children got to write their own traditional tales with a twist.
At the end of the week we celebrated by dressing up as a book character and took part in lots of fun activities around school. We had a fantastic week!
We have had great fun today doing all things related to Traditional Tales as part of ‘World Book Day’. We have built beanstalks for Jack, houses for the three pigs, a bridge for the troll and decorated princess carriages. We got to listen to stories in Hansel and Gretel’s cottage and also acted out our favourite stories in the Performance Area. The children have made book marks in class and had a quiz around traditional tales, the competition is unreal. Great fun has been had by all.
We went on our class trip to Hartlepool Marina where we visited the HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy vessel which is more than 200 yrs old! We looked at different artefacts that would be used on voyages and explored the ship from the gun deck to the captains quarters. We looked around the Hartlepool navy museum and found out lots of interesting facts such as: Each sailor had a number on their hammock and when they died their number was up and they were wrapped in their hammock. They were even sewn into the hammock with the last stitch going through their nose! This was done in case any of the sneaky sailors pretended they were dead to escape the life at sea. Despite the weather being terrible the children had a great time!
Wow! Wow! Wow! I am blown away with the amazing  ‘Book in a Box’ entries. They are just out of this world. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would have such an amazing response to our challenge! Yet again you have all shown us what incredibly talented people you all are. I have tried to capture them all but apologies if I’ve missed anyone. I’m glad I’m not judging! Winners to be announced soon.
Another great Book Day in Hebburn Lakes!
2 Red loved spending the week looking at fractured fairytales and created their own very imaginative versions of Cinderella.
We then ended the week with a whole range of fairytale-themed activities such as a character hunt around the school, a decorated door competition, reading in the Hansel and Gretel Hobbit Hut, performing like fairytale characters in the Magical Forest performance area, challenges of building houses of sticks and bridges of paper, and many, many more fun activities!
For our book week this year we have chosen Cinderella as our feature book. We wrote a fractured fairytale about Cinderella where we changed an important part of the story, she may have lost her purse instead of a glass slipper or she may have gone swimming instead of to the ball. The children had lots of fun coming up with their own version. We the invited our parents in to read with us which we thought was amazing. We ended book week with a day of dressing up and all things fairytale. We created bridges, castles and beanstalks in the hall, read stories in the witches cottage, performed our own stories in the performance area, went on scavenger hunts to find letters to make words and hunting down 46 different fairytale creature around the school. We have had an amazing week and can’t wait to see what next years theme is!
Reception had a fabulous World Book Day! We dressed up as lots of our favourite characters and made some amazing story boxes We had an amazing time exploring all of our activities.
