Today in Nursery we have been thinking about all of the jobs that we can help with around the home. We have been sweeping, vacuuming, washing dishes and setting the table. I hope the children are going to put their skills to good use at home!
Today we had some very special visitors in Nursery. The chicks, which hatched last week in our reception class, came to see us. We all held them and talked about what they felt like. We could hear them making chirping noises too. The children were all very sensible. They understood that we had to be gentle and quiet with the chicks, to keep them safe and make sure we didn’t scare them.
For the last couple of weeks we have been using the book ‘Leaf’ by Sandra Dieckmann as our text for our English lessons. As you can see we have produced some amazing work; researching polar bears, creating reports, writing in role. We have also created some brilliant freeze frames.
As part of our text based English, the children in year 4 have produced some well written list poems this week, describing the observations of our main character on his journey across the sea.
As part of our Learning Means the World theme of light and dark we have been looking at how to create different shade and tones to give our pictures a more realistic look. Also we looked at blending and shading and how we could use these skills to create different effects.
5 Blue’s Science and DT lesson sent them down an electrifying route this week, when they experienced making circuits.
Miss Davison was extremely mean, when she handed 5 Blue a pack of broken electrical parts and simply said, “Make it work!”
All of 5 Blue rose to the challenge and managed to make, bulbs light, motors spin and buzzers buzz. They even discovered what happens when you reverse the flow of electrical current.
In year 4, the children have been learning about the human and physical features of Brazil. As part of this, they have created information posters about Christ the Redeemer.
As part of our “Full of Beans” theme, 5 Blue looked at the energy people get from the coco bean. Obviously, it was absolutely imperative that we find out how the coco bean is transformed from a bitter, inedible bean into the smooth, delicious chocolate we buy in the shops.
Feel free to ask one of us what we have learned at the chocolate factory.
This week we have been learning about present perfect tense verbs in English. The children enjoyed playing ‘present perfect tense’ bingo.
