Month: October 2014

 

In RE we have been learning about Special Places and today we went to a special place for Christians, Holy Trinity Church.

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We had a good look around the church to find all of the features that we had learnt about in class.

We found the pews, font, pulpit, lectern, organ, alter, stained glass windows and the  aisle.

We  listened carefully to Sandy who told us lots of interesting facts about the church.

Did you know that the oldest part of the church is the Ladies Chapel and it is 1000 years old?  Sandy showed us how to ring the bell to call the people to prayer.

Did you know that the eagle shaped lectern in made of solid brass and is very very heavy?

Did you know that one of the stained glass windows has a picture of the church in it? Can you spot it in the photo below? What else can you see in the window?

Thank you very much Sandy for taking the time to show us around the church and answering all of the children’s questions.

Also thank you to the mums, dads and grannies that helped to walk us across the road.

This week we have been learning the phonemes h, b, f, ff.
Homework for this weekend is to hunt for writing around your home or whilst you are out and about. Try to find as many words as you can containing our sounds h, b, f or ff. Look in books, labels on food, household products, road signs, shop signs etc etc. Can you read the words? Try writing a list of words you have found and bring them in to school on Monday.
Good luck!

Here are some I have found in my kitchen;
Rubicon Mango
Flour (printed on a jar)
Coffee (printed on another jar)
Hellman’s mayonnaise

Mrs Saeed

On Tuesday we took our first school trip, to Westonbirt Arboretum and what a super day we had! It rained almost continually all day, but dressed in waterproofs and wellies, the rain just added to the fun. We splashed in puddles, ran through the wet grass, climbed and balanced and swung from branches. We even tried to find the Gruffalo but it just kept running away from us! Adam said he saw the Gruffalo running away across the field and Tom saw it up in the trees. The children were amazingly well behaved and Mrs Saeed and Mrs Nicholls were very proud of them all. Thank you so much to the parents who came and helped. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did.

Thank you everyone who has looked at our class blog so far and I hope that you find it interesting and informative. We would love it if you could add your comments to our posts from yourselves and on behalf of your children. We value your comments greatly and look forward to sharing them in class.

Here is a simple guide to adding comments if you’re not quite sure what to do.

At the bottom right corner beneath each blog entry is a comments link.

Click on it to take you to the comments form.

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Thank you

Mrs Saeed

This week we have been learning ck, e, u, r. Why not play some phonic games over the weekend?
How many items around your house can you find that have the ck (c, k or both), e, u or r sound in them?
I can find a few …
rug
egg cup
coat
umbrella
mug
cat flap

I’m sure you can find many more at home.
I would love to hear what you have found – add a comment in the comments box below.

This morning we received a letter from the Little Red Hen asking us to help her to bake some bread. She said that she was very tired from planting, watering, cutting, carrying and grinding the corn and none of her friends on the farm would help her. So we spent the morning mixing, squeezing and kneading the dough and Mrs Nicholls baked the bread over lunchtime.

I will!

I will!

I will!

The classroom smelt of freshly basked bread all afternoon and we hope the Little Red Hen and the children enjoyed their bread at home. There was even enough bread to share with all of the teachers too. Big thank you Mrs Nicholls for helping the children to bake the bread.

Who knew a cardboard tube and a brick could be so much fun. Here are just some of the ways they were played with today.

A golf club

A window cleaning brush

A weight lifter’s bar

The word I

A double headed hammer

As well as a horse and a normal hammer to hammer nails into the logs. Can you think of any more ideas?

Following on from our Tall Yellow Giraffe story, we have been off on our adventures exploring the jungle. Some of us went giraffe spotting, making sure we had sufficient supplies for the trip.

We spotted a giraffe or two…

and even the odd zebra and leopard!