The Museum in the Park – Reception trip Tuesday 13th May 2014 on PhotoPeach
Tag: Aqua Class
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!
Sports Relief
On Friday, as well as our super class assembly, it was Sports Relief day and we all took part in a sponsored run around the field. Mrs Saeed was amazed at how fast some of us ran, and every one of us ran all the way round without stopping. Well done everyone! We raised lots of money for Sports Relief. Thank you for all of your generous donations.
Sports Relief sponsored run around the field. on PhotoPeach
Owl Pellets
As part of our owl topic we have learnt that owls like to eat mice, shrews, voles and small birds and that they swallow their food whole or in large chunks. Â Some of their dinner cannot be digested so the bones, fur, teeth and feathers are stored in the gizzard and coughed up later as an owl pellet. Today some of us became science detectives and had the opportunity to dissect an owl pellet to investigate what the owl had eaten for its dinner. Very carefully, we used tweezers and pointed sticks to tease the pellet apart and looked closely at what we found with a magnifying glass. Â We discovered lots of interesting items including a whole mouse skull with front teeth attached, many tiny rodent bones, some seeds, bark, fur and even quite a large metal hook??? We are not sure how the owl managed to swallow that! It was fascinating! The rest of us are having a go tomorrow.
Winter fun on Woodhenge
Winter fun on Woodhenge on PhotoPeach
As the sun made a rare winter visit, we took the opportunity to have some fun climbing, balancing and travelling on woodhenge.
Our class retell of Can’t You Sleep Little Bear
We have been working really hard to retell our class story and Mrs Saeed is very impressed with how well we are doing. We have also changed the ending of the story thinking about what other amazing ideas Big Bear could have to help Little Bear get to sleep. Here are a few of our ideas;
give Little Bear his special teddy bear, blanket, covers
take Little Bear for a walk in the woods
sing Little Bear a lullaby
read Little Bear his favourite story
use a gigantic torch, glowsticks, even bigger lantern to light up the cave
hang heart shaped fairy lights all around the cave
Does anyone have any other good ideas? We would love to hear them.
Watch us acting out Can’t You Sleep Little Bear!
A retelling of the story by members of our reception class.
Another retell of the story by some of our reception children in Aqua Class
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!
