Robins Out and About

Yesterday we went for a walk across to Ilam Park to do a very special job for the National Trust. We have been asked to produce some posters to encourage dog walkers to keep their dogs on a lead, especially during the lambing season. We thought the best place to get some inspiration for our posters was Ilam Park, and so we set off in search of some sheep to draw. We eventually found some up on the hill and took the opportunity for a class photo.

The children really enjoyed sketching in the great outdoors and asked if we could do it every day!

Using our sketches of sheep we can now create some fantastic posters for the National Trust.

Week Ending 13th February 2014

The Robins have been incredibly busy over the past two weeks. We have lots of photos to share with you!

In Forest Schools the children have been lighting their own fires and learning all about how to keep safe around fire. All the children successfully started their own fire safely using the correct kneeling position as you can see in the photos below.

In the final Gymnastics session of the half term the children practised and perfected their headstands with the support of a partner and then went on to use the equipment. The children put together all the techniques they have learned over the past few weeks whilst using the equipment. They demonstrated their different balances and travelling techniques. The Robin’s have thoroughly enjoyed their gymnastics sessions with the Stoke City leaders and are looking forward to learning other PE skills with them in the near future.

In Literacy the children have written their own Fairy Tale books! They have really used their imaginations and have come up with some wonderful stories. In order to make their stories the best they could be the children used story mountains, word banks and planning sheets to help them come up with lots of ideas and prepare them to write their story. When their stories were complete the children designed their own front and back covers to make them look like real books.

Our fantastic trainee teacher Miss Martin has been delivering some outstanding lessons in Robins Class. Miss Martin has taught lots of exciting maths lessons with practical, interactive, hands-on activities so the children are learning through doing. The children have been learning about weights and measures, and as you can see from the photos below they have been having lots of fun too!

Miss Martin has also been delivering Science lessons, which have also been full of lots of engaging activities to keep the children motivated and excited about their learning. In Science the children have learned about magnets and forces, as well as different materials.

 

Here is a photo of our new classroom display. The children created some excellent artwork using cotton wool and pipecleaners to make skiing figures. They also did some writing about what Winter Olympic sports they would like to do and why. Enthused from our recent skiing trip you won’t be surprised to hear that a lot of the children chose skiing!

Week Ending 7th February 2014

This week the Robins have written a sentence each about their favourite thing they have done this week…

I love swimming because I love going under water.

I like maths because it is fun and art because we make stuff like penguins, igloos and Northern Lights.

 My favourite thing was swimming. It is fun when I went in the water with no armbands. It was my first time.

 My favourite thing was gymnastics because we learned headstands.

 On Monday me and my class went to gymnastics and we did headstands. On Tuesday the children did pencil jumps.

I liked making the penguins out of tissue paper. I liked swimming because I am good at swimming. I liked gymnastics because I am good at it.

I like going on the laptops because we went up to the highest number on the phonics games.

Yesterday we made penguins out of tissue paper. We got some black paper, scrunched it up and then stuck it on the piece of paper. We did the same with the different colours.

I played on the laptops. It was phonics. It was fun.

Yesterday afternoon we were learning about penguins. In art we coloured penguins and put tissue paper on our penguins. As well in art we did the Northern Lights with chalk. It was good fun doing the Northern Lights.

I learned facts about penguins. Daddy penguins look after the eggs. Penguins live in the North Pole. Emperor penguins are fat.

I liked helping to tidy the bookcase when it was wet play time. 

 

This week we completed our igloo made of sugar cubes. It took a long time, a lot of PVA glue and lots and lots of patience! We are very pleased with the results.

In Maths this week the learning has been centered around consolidating the children’s knowledge in addition and subtraction using lots of interactive games and activities.

In Science we have continued our learning about materials and connected our fairy tale topic by building houses for the three pigs using various materials. We all thoroughly enjoyed seeing which houses were strong enough to stay up whilst the big bad wolf (a hairdryer) tried to blow them down!

In our topic work we have been learning about different varieties of penguins – where they live, what they eat etc.

In Literacy we have been planning our own fairy tale stories ready to write them next week. The children have come up with some very creative ideas and have certainly been using their imaginations! Last week we practiced typing on the laptops, so hopefully when the children have written their stories they can type them up for everyone to read on the blog. The below photo is a display of the fantastic writing the children did about our trip to Stoke Ski Centre last week. The children have loved looking at their ‘in action’ photos that accompany their writing.

 

Here are some more photos of one of the activities we have done in class. Next week we will post photos of today’s Forest Schools session and hopefully some of the children’s fairy tale stories!

Week Ending 31st January 2014

This week we had a very, very exciting trip to Stoke Ski Centre! We had a skiing lesson and we also had some fun sledging. Below are all the photos from our fantastic trip.