Red Class

Oooooh we’ve had a lovely glittery time in Red class! On Thursday morning we discovered a trail of fairy dust in our classromm and it led us outside to a real fairy ring with a little door in it. Behind the door, in a little bag, was a letter to us from the fairies! They asked if they could come and live in our garden. We were soooo excited! We got busy straight away and wrote lovely letters back to the fairies and also made a fairy garden for them, complete with fairy furniture. We also wrote our wishes down and put them in a magic wishes jar. We hope that the fairies will make them come true! We also had fun dressing up as fairies, making a sparkly fairy den, making our own wands, painting fairy pictures and reading fairy stories. So lovely!
Additionally, outside we have constructed our very own garden centre, and if you look at the second photo show you will see the children have been digging (yes, sorry about the mucky uniforms!), weeding, pruning and planting in our garden. We have made and filled seed packets and made, wrapped and sold beautiful bunches of flowers. We’ve had such a great time.
Fairies! on PhotoPeach

Our garden centre on PhotoPeach

We’ve had lots of fun this week making boats and then testing them to see whether they would float or sink. Luckily, most of our designs worked well! As ever we have been up to all sorts as you will see in the photos: playing games on the ipad, building models in the classroom, water fun, playing in the band, dressing up, a “chalking competition” and performing on our own stage! We’ve also discovered how to make ten in lots of different ways, written about where the “magic train” might take us and learnt about road safety (our posters were fab!). Mrs Barratt also popped in with Lily and Jack. It was so lovely to see her. As always, I think the photos show just how happy the children are at school. I love Red Class!
Float or sink? on PhotoPeach

Wow! Well, first of all you’ll notice it’s a double whammy this week for the photo shows! We packed soooo much into one week that I just couldn’t hold back on the picture taking! We started the week with some “Big Art” where the children made vehicles out of all sorts of bits and bobs such as raincoats and PE equipment. The builders on the roof came in very handy for the ariel view photographs! We then had fun outside with the big blocks outside, making a car wash to drive our cars through. I think some of the children got wetter than the cars however! We did some great experimentation with friction as we made ramps with different surfaces (eg smooth register, rough teatowel, bumpy bubble wrap etc) then tested how quickly or slowly the cars went down them. We measured and marked how far the cars got. The children reached some very valid conclusions. They then all went off in small groups and made their own ramps. It was fab. We also made and painted our own cars and also made and tested some paper aeroplanes outside. We had some great designs. Mrs Clough introduced the children to the BeeBots which are the roaming programmable toys. The children LOVED them and had great fun sending them on their programmed route. My personal highlight of the week was when the children built their own stage outside, formed a band and put on an impromptu concert. We had dancing, singing and instrument playing.It was just lovely! Finally, we had two special visits this week. One was from Mrs Lang and her new baby Baxter and the other was our visit to see the baby ducklings. So cute! Phew! That’s it. Enjoy the photos
A busy transport week! on PhotoPeach

And there’s more!! on PhotoPeach

Hello! I hope you all enjoyed the easter break. This week we have started a new topic on Transport and the children seem to be loving it. We have transformed our shared role play area into an Airport and in the classroom we have The Red Class Garage (no fuel crisis here!). The children have made a big petrol pump and a car and have had great fun at the garage buying newspapers and sweets. We’ve also made our own non-fiction book of transport, with a different fact page by every child. The children really have done some fabulous writing. I am very proud of them. They have also built some very elaborate garages with the construction equipment! On Tuesday the children learnt all about the Titanic. They made a fantastic collage of the ship and wrote menus for the passengers on board. It was a great day. Outside the children have made water pathways to float boats down and have chalked out roads to ride the bikes around. A lovely first week back.
Transport on PhotoPeach

We have had lots of Easter fun in the sun this week. We started the week by making chocolate crispy nests and then writing a set of instructions showing others how to make them. Nice and messy and some truly fantastic writing. We then made cute chicks and little baskets to put them in. We had a “design an egg” competition in school which was organised and judged by some Junior girls, which Mia and Jack won. Well done to both of them! Our week finished with the “Easter Bonnet Parade”. The standard was extremely high. Thank you to everyone who took part. The sun shone us for most of the week and we spent a lot of time outside doing egg hunts and space hopper races! All good fun! Have a lovely Easter break everyone (and remember to keep reading!!)
Chicks, nests and bonnets! on PhotoPeach

This week we learnt about The Easter Story. The children were enthralled by it, and particularly enjoyed the bread and wine (ribena!) that we consumed as we re-enacted The Last Supper. They rewrote the story brilliantly, remembering lots of details. They also painted scenes from the story which we then sequenced. In the workshop the children made some wonderful bunny ears and little chicks, and at the art table they painted and decorated eggs. We deconstructed an easter egg and it’s contents, looking at the shape of the egg and the box, sorting and counting the smarties and describing it using all of our senses-including taste!! Yum! Our maths focus was capacity and so the children have been comparing the amount of water that different containers hold. We all got very wet! Our sounds this week have been “ng”, “ai” and “ee” so it would be great if you could reinforce these sounds at home. The weather has been lovely this week and we have spent lots of time outside in the sun. Have a look at our photos. Spring is here!
The Easter Story on PhotoPeach

Another fun packed week for Red class! This week we focussed our learning on the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. After reading lots of different versions of the story, we retold them in our own words and acted the story out on stage. We also pretended to be Goldilocks as wrote to Baby Bear to say how sorry we were for eating his porridge, breaking his chair and sleeping in his bed. We made and tasted porridge with all different flavours, and then voted for our favourite. Yummy! We also used dry porridge to play in, count spoonfuls of and use in relay races!! Messy! In the workshop we made big, medium sized and small beds for the three bears. Our maths focus this week was “weight” and the photos show the children weighing different items from Mummy Bear’s cupboard. Our sounds of the week were sh, ch and th, so please help your child to practise these sounds at home this weekend. We had lots of noisy fun with the instruments this week, both inside and outside. The children showed that they are confident performers as they came out in ones and twos to perform songs with instruments and even some funky dancing! Good fun! Finally, we carefully painted some daffodils for our Mother’s Day cards. Have a nice rest on Sunday all you lovely mummies!
Goldilocks Week on PhotoPeach

Another lovely week. This week we have based our learning around the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We started the week off by reading lots of different versions of the story and comparing their similarities and differences. The children have rewritten the story and I have been very impressed with their work. The children have also acted out the story using masks, hand puppets and finger puppets and have even performed on their very own stage in the role play area, where they also made and sold tickets and ice cream! All the children transformed their wooden spoon into a fantastic Little Red Riding Hood puppet. Ask them to use it to retell the story to you at home. Our topic week was enhanced with a visit to the theatre to see a human puppet performance of the story. The children loved it! However, our best day of all was today, Friday when we had two very special visitors. Mrs Barratt and her new baby Lily! The children were SO excited to see her again, and they were calm and gentle around little Lily. Have a look at the photos to see her!
And what big teeth you have Grandma! on PhotoPeach

Wow! This has just been such a wonderful topic and it has ignited the imaginations of all the children. We have learnt about castles and castle life, we have built and played in our very own castle (complete with our handmade banners, flags, shields, bunting, garlands and paintings), we have dressed up and acted out royal roles, and of course we have prepared for our fabulous banquet! We dressed up in our handpainted knights tabards and donned our sparkly crowns before heading off to the pavillion for our feast! Have a look at the photos to see the cake that Mrs Wright made for us-it’s amazing!
In addition to all of this we also enjoyed ourselves enormously on World Book Day. The children loved telling everyone about their costumes and books (of which we read many). We had a whole year group reading session in the hall, watched videos of children reading books, had a costume parade, made book marks and wrote book reviews. It was so great to see so many parents in the classroom on Friday afternoon. Thank you for reading with groups of children. It was lovely (and I hope you don’t mind appearing on the Blog!!)
(So many photos this week that I couldn’t decide which to pick, so there are two photo shows for you to watch! Enjoy!)
Castles on PhotoPeach

World Book Day and The Banquet on PhotoPeach

I know it’s only Monday and we’ve only just started our “Castles” topic, but I thought you’d all love to see these pictures of the children dressed up as knights and princesses! Soooo cute! We’re using them as portraits and we’re making frames for them. You will get your copy in a few weeks but I couldn’t wait to show you! While I’m here, can I just ask you all to send in a white pillowcase please (we will be turning them into knights costumes!) Thank you.
Knights and Princesses on PhotoPeach