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In class we have been thinking about people who are special to us. We painted our special person and thought about what makes them special.

our special people from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

To help us to learn about how life was in the past, we have been finding out about the famous engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.  Locally, he has built many of our landmarks. Recently, it was the 150th Anniversary of the completion of his Clifton Suspension Bridge. He designed and constructed Temple Meads railway station and Paddington Station in London and the complete railway line in between.  His SS Great Britain, in Bristol Harbour is worth a visit if you haven’t been. Once we had gathered some information about him, we wrote a report. Here is our retell.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

All Aqua Class parents and carers should have now received details for signing in to view their child’s learning journey. Thank you to all of you that have already logged on. If you are having difficulties then please let me know.
The interactive learning diary is a great way to see all the activities and achievements your children have been getting up to at school and also gives you the opportunity to upload comments, photos and videos of things the children get up to at home.
Here is a link to the ILD site.

 

 

Lion Dance from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

Last week was a busy one after our week away.  On Monday we celebrated Chinese New Year in Aqua Class. First we cleaned the classroom to ward off the evil spirits, then we decorated the classroom with red and gold lanterns and even made some Good Luck banners with Chinese writing. We then performed a Lion Dance using drums and cymbals to make the music. Finally we ate some Chinese food (Prawn Crackers) whilst we listened to a Chinese story – The Magic Paintbrush.

On Tuesday we learnt the story of the Great Race – how the Chinese Zodiac was made. It was very interesting and we found out that those of us who are 5 years old were born in the Year of the Ox and those of us who are still 4 years old were born in the Year of the Tiger. This year is Year of the Sheep / Goat.  We then started thinking about goats and we were introduced to our new story of the term – The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We went out onto the playground with Midnight and Teal class where we used scrap to make bridges.

On Wednesday We drew small, medium sized and big goats in our books and watched Noah from Midnight class’s goat videos. They were great and taught us what the goats look like, where they sleep and what they eat. In the afternoon we put on our wellies and got out onto the school field searching for treasures.

On Thursday we were very lucky to have a PE lesson with Mrs Bugg who taught us how to do forward rolls safely. It was such fun and most of us had managed it by the end of the session.

 

Friday came around all too quickly and we ended the week with a trip down to the pond to take a sneaky peek at the frogs. Spring is on its way and lots of frogs are in the pond getting ready to lay their frogspawn. We managed to stay very quiet so that we didn’t frighten any of the frogs away. There were lots!

I wonder what next week will bring…?

Reception children have been working really hard in class learning phase 3 sounds this term. Not many of the children confidently know all of the sounds yet so… could you all spend some time in the holidays going through the sound cards in your packs and particularly reading the words on the back of the cards.

Sounds to work on

ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, or, ar, ur, oi, ow, air, ear, er, ure

 

Here is a reminder of the sounds

Here are some online games to play

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePopLS_v2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html

 

Good luck!

On Friday we were all invited to an Alien Pant Party at school. It was so much fun. Instead of a class of well behaved lovely children, our classrooms were replaced with lots of mischievous aliens with Alien Bugg in charge!

 

 

 

 

We were summoned to the hall at 10am where we searched for clues. We found space dust, lots of pants, and a big bowl of alien rock cakes with a note saying “We made you rock cakes. Enjoy the party.” They were delicious! Then we played some pant party games, such as ping the pants through the hoop, musical pants and pinging pants target practise. We sang some alien songs and had a fabulous time.

 

Well, not too much to report this week. The aliens have been moving things around in the classroom and have been bringing Hector’s lunchbox in each day but no more invasions so far. I think they may have taken a few pairs of pants from our washing line though.

I know we are into the new year but here is a little video of some of our children retelling the Christmas Story.

the first christmas from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

Well what a day we’ve had today! Whilst we were all happily singing in assembly (very impressive singing too by the way!), we were visited by some aliens and you will never guess what they did! They made such a mess in our classroom, covering the floor and furniture with alien slime and space dust.

 

They also left us lots and lots of pants and a book hanging from the ceiling with a note asking us to read the book in class – which we did.

 

Watch this space to find out what happens next.