Happy new year to you all and we look forward to seeing the children in school, bright and breezy, on Monday 6th January.
Happy Holidays!
I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday. Well done all of those who have had a go on the mathletics maths website so far. If you have yet to log on then you will find your child’s username and password at the back of their yellow reading record and access the site at this address www.mathletics.co.uk (there is also a link on the left side of the blog).
Our Vision and Values
Please help with our class story
Today, during shared writing, we wrote the beginning of an alternative story for the Three Little Pigs. First of all we had to decide which characters to use and we had lots of super ideas such as The three little rabbits and the big bad fox, the three little wolves and the big bad pig and the three little builders and the big bad giant. Eventually we decided on the three little knights and the big bad dragon and here is our shared write so far.
The Three Little Knights and the Big Bad Dragon
Once upon a time there were three little knights who lived in a dark, spooky castle. One starry night they were playing noughts and crosses when suddenly they heard stomping footsteps, rumbling roars and scraping claws. They silently tiptoed to the window and saw a dark red, scaly dragon with spikes sharper than a chainsaw and a slithery spotty tail staring back at them from behind a rambling rose bush.
What happens next? We would love to hear what you think could happen next in our story.
Will the dragon attack the knights?
Will a princess come and save them?
Will the knights come up with a cunning plan?
If you have any thoughts, please add them in the comments box. We eagerly await your ideas!
Watch out pigs, the wolves are coming!
Listen out for the different sounds from the three little pigs story.
The Three Little Pigs
This term we have been immersed in the three little pigs story. Â We have learnt to retell the story, Â drawn and acted out the different characters and built houses for the pigs outside. Here is some of our work.
The Three Little Pigs on PhotoPeach
The Christmas Hamper
Our Christmas production is fast approaching. In book bags tonight is a request for outfits for the play. If possible we would like all of the children in party clothes and a Santa hat if you have one. If the outfits could be brought into school in a named carrier bag on Friday this week we would be very grateful.
This Week
What a busy time we have been having in Aqua class already this week.
Yesterday was our KS1 trip to Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury where we watched Jack and the Beanstalk. It was a fantastic performance with lots of bright shiny costumes and the Giant was amazing. The children were extremely well behaved and although it was a long day, only a few were asleep on coach on the way home.
“I liked the Giant because he was very big” – Alisha
“The Giant did a handstand flip over. It was very funny” – Reuben
“My favourite part was when Jack climbed up the beanstalk” – Alice
“The Giant roared really loud so I covered my ears” – Cicely
“I was a little bit tired when I was watching the panto but I didn’t go to sleep!” – Cerys
Today we were lucky to have a visit from the children at the Coigne. First we retold them the Three Little Pigs story that we have been learning. Then we all played in the classroom or outside in our play area and finally we finished with a story.
This afternoon we practised our Christmas production in the hall and went up onto the stage for the very first time. We still have much practising to do before the real show next week!!!
I wonder what tomorrow has in store for us?
Westonbirt Trip
Today was our first school trip to Westonbirt and what fun we had!
First we became Nature Detectives searching for leaves of different shapes, sizes and colours. Hugo found the biggest leaf and Sam’s skeleton leaf was fascinating. We also collected other woodland treasures; acorns, sweet chestnuts and their prickly shells, lichen, moss, sticks and pine cones.
Then we impressed Mrs Saeed with our climbing and balancing skills in the woodland playground and some of us went for a ride on the “story train”.
We then found three houses in need of some repair so spent time rebuilding them (more than once as the big bad wolf kept blowing them down!).
After lunch we had another wander in the woods where most of us enjoyed a run to burn off our excess energy (others of us were rather tired by now so enjoyed a gentle stroll).
Finally it was time to get back on the coach and go back to school.
The children were all superbly behaved and Mrs Saeed and Mrs Nicholls were very proud of them all. Thank you to all the parents that came to help. We had a fantastic day!
Letter Formation
Please check the links below to see how the children are learning to write letters in class. These links have also been added to the new letter formation page on this blog.
CCW Precursive Arrow 1 Alphabet – a sheet to print off for handwriting practise
http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/letterformation.html – an online letter and number formation game for practise and information. It includes capital letters as well as lower case letters.