General News – Page 13 – Reception -Aqua Class and Midnight Class

Dutch Day

Today was ourÂ Â Dutch Day and we had a super fun time.

We even had our own Netherlands team

and our red, white and blue team

We tasted a number of traditional Dutch dishes. HereÂ wasÂ our menu for the day;

Hotchpotch (or in Dutch Hutspot) is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine

Nasi met Kroepoek – Indonesian rice and prawn crackers

Frikandel Speciaal – Dutch sausage

Gouda cheese

Pepernoten- a Dutch cookie.

A hugeÂ thank you to Mr Jansen for preparing all of the food and explaining what each of the foods were and why they are important to the Dutch.
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The children also found out many interesting facts about the Netherlands and I Â hope they can remember some of the information and share them with you at home.

Handwriting

I have attached a copy of our cursive handwriting that we are practising in class. Please click on the letter formation page.

Quiz Time question 2

What is the capital of Netherlands (Holland).

10 raffle Â tickets for the first correct answer, 5 for second place, 3 for third place and 1 raffle ticket for the rest.

Quiz time

Which country will we be looking at this term? Answers in the comment box please. First correct answer gets 10 raffle tickets!!!

Clue 1: here’s the flag

This week, the whole school visited our local football stadium, Forest Green Rovers.

Ian showed us around and we saw lots of new things and learnt lots of new words, particularly the word SUSTAINABILITY. Try to remember that one children!

Mrs Saeed was amazed at how much information that we all remembered when we got back to school.
We learnt that Forest Green Rovers make their own electricity from wind turbines and solar panels.

We remembered that they collect rain water from the roof of the stand and store it in a big tank. Then they use the water to water the grass on the pitch.

We also saw some electric cars and their chargers.

Can anyone remember some of the differences between the electric car and our petrol or diesel cars at home? Answers in the comments box please. 3 raffle tickets for each spot the difference!

We also learnt that all of the food served at the stadium is organic and vegetarian and that they cut the grass on the pitch using a mowbot controlled by a computer.

Alien descriptions part 2

Alien film second group from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

Here are the remaining alien descriptions!

Our trip to the museum

The Museum in the Park – Reception trip Tuesday 13th May 2014 on PhotoPeach

Trip to Museum in the Park

Tomorrow is our exciting trip to Stroud Museum. Please send your child in with a packed lunch, full school uniform and a waterproof coat. Many thanks Mrs Saeed.

Aliens

Sorry if you are waiting for the second installment of our alien description film. We are just waiting to record one final entry which should be completed today.

Alien Descriptions

Alien film first group from Aqua Class on Vimeo.

Inspired by Hoctopize, a main character in our Toys in Space story, the children drew their own space creature and used interesting words to describe what they had drawn.
The film only has some of our pictures, more to follow by the end of this week. We hope you enjoy them!