Week Ending 24th January 2014

Below are some photos of what the Robins have been up to over the past two weeks.

In Literacy we have been reading lots of different Fairy Tales to inspire our own Fairy Tale writing. We did some role play of one of our favourites – Little Red Riding Hood. The children thoroughly enjoyed getting into character!

During our topic lessons we have been learning about the Inuit people including where they live and how they hunt. We discovered that the Inuit like to carve images into soapstone, so we had a go using bars of soap! We were very pleased with the end result.

In Art we have been looking at photographs of the Northern Lights and recreating some of the photographs using chalks on black paper.

During a topic lesson about homes in the frozen parts of our planet we watched a video of Inuit people building an igloo as a form of temporary shelter. We had a go at making mini igloos using sugar cubes. We found it very tricky when it came to the roof!

 

In Science we have been learning about different materials and their properties. In last weeks Science lesson we foccussed on floating and sinking. We experimented with different materials and tested whether they would float or sink. We then worked in groups to make boats using 4 types of materials. All the groups boats floated apart from the clay boat which was far too heavy.

We have not let the weather put us off during our Forest Schools sessions on Friday afternoons. In the past two sessions we have made kites, built homes for fairies and goblins and played lots of team building games. In the coming weeks we hope to do some fire lighting and campfire cooking.

 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Robins Class. We hope you had a lovely restful Christmas and a great New Year.

This term in Robins Class our topic is Frozen Planet. We will be learning about the North and South Poles and the people and animals that live there. In Literacy we will be focusing on Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories. We will be transforming stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella into magical wintry tales.

Below are some photographs of our frost-looking classroom and what we have been learning about this week.

Our Frozen Planet themed classroom complete with snowflakes, photographs of polar animals and adjectives to help inspire fantasy story writing on the windows.
 

Science – Investigating Materials

Literacy – Brainstorming the similarities of all the Fairy Tales

Maths – Practical activities to practice different types of Addition

Christmas!

Here are a few photos of what Robins got up to before the Christmas holidays.

A special visitor called Mr Cain came to read us some fantastic stories. He had lots of props to make his stories even more exciting. We really enjoyed all his tales, especially the one about a dragon.

 

We decided that Santa Claus would enjoy receiving some letters from us asking him how he was, where he was going on holiday and other questions. We all wrote a letter, addressed it to Santa Claus, North Pole and went to the post box to post them!

 

Here we are lining up to post our letters to Santa. A couple of days later all the Robins received a reply! It was very exciting indeed. Santa even included some special glitter in all his letters.

 

 

On the last day of school we had a beautiful church service. The Robins sang Away in a Manger with Ducks class, and then we sang ‘Mary’s Boy Child’. Mrs Greenwood was extremely proud of how well the Robins sang.