03.04.10
Y1 Ready,Steady,Grow!
Our fantastic plant display in our classroom. A variety of flowering plants and vegetable tops!
The children are taking great care in watering the plants and keeping them healthy.
03.03.10
Year 1 “Watch our amaryllis grow!”
In Year 1 we have a beautiful amaryllis plant which we are looking after very carefully.As well as watering and feeding our plant we are also measuring it to see how much it grows!At the start of our experiment on Friday 26.2.10 our plant measured 32cm tall.We will keep you up to date on it’s progress. WATCH THIS SPACE :-
Our plant on Friday measuring 32 cms
Today 3.3.10 the amaryllis measures 40 cms.How much has it grown?
03.02.10
Pond perimeters
In Year 4, we are being landscape designers this week in Maths. Today’s challenge was to work out the perimeter of some ponds (which we designed ourselves!)
Not easy as the ponds were very irregular shapes, but we came up with lots of good ideas of how to measure the perimeters…
03.01.10
Signs of Spring
As the weather has been a little milder for the last few days, Year 5 ventured outside to see if we could spot any signs of Spring around the school.
We found …….
…… quite a few clumps of snowdrops ……
…… some pussy willow catkins ……
…… daffodil bulbs ………….
……. and a rapidly departing frog!
What have you seen?
02.10.10
Drama Club
I am really enjoying working with the drama club this year. They are all so full of enthusiasm and talent! Over the last few weeks we have been working on some improvisations around the story of Joseph and his Dream coat. I have given the children a snap shot of a scene and asked them to work in groups of 4 or 5 to create an improvised play. They have had time to rehearse and revise thier performances before sharing it with the rest of the group. Within each group one person has taken on the role of director. It has been facinating to see which children have naturally taken on this role. Mrs Raybould and I have been so impressed with the confidence and the strong use of expression both verbally and non- verbally. Well done drama group it is a pleasure to work with you on a Thursday afternoon.
Here are some photograghs of them in action!
Pizza Cafe Opens for One Day Only!
Today was the day for making the pizzas we had so carefully designed. Were they going to be as delicious as the children hoped?
The morning began by groups of children preparing their pizzas.
First we must wash our hands, put our aprons on and then look at our recipes to see what we needed.
Everything was ready.
1. Spread the tomato paste on the pizza base.
2. Chop up the toppings. Very carefully so as not to cut fingers!
3. Put the toppings on the pizza.
4. Sprinkle the cheese on the top.
5. Put the pizza in the oven and cook until it is golden and brown.
6. Finally eat the pizza!
The children thought of lots of words to describe their pizzas.
Yummy, delicious, srumptious, yummy scrummy, tasty, tomatoey.
The Pizza Cafe was also open to the staff. Here are the children waiting on the Lunch Time staff. We hope they all enjoyed their Pizzas?
Pizza Toppings
Last Friday the Reception children tasted the different toppings they had bought at the supermarket. They tasted ham, pepperoni, salami, chicken, olives, cheese, apple, pineapple, potato, onions, pepper, mushroom and tomato. having decided which toppings they liked they designed their own pizza. Apple was a firm favourite which took me by surprise, maybe we are going to start a new trend in sweet pizzas!
The Toppings.
Tasting them!
The Recipes
02.08.10
Bug bungalow
With the assistance of Groundwork, children in Nature Club have been adding to our collection of desirable residences for minibeasts.
One carefully placed spider shelter….
…… covered in sticks …….
…… is now awaiting occupants.
Symmetry
In Year 5 we have been exploring reflecting shapes and patterns across two lines of symmetry. This is trickier than it appears!
Hot and Cold poems
Year 2 have been busy contrasting ideas of hot and cold in poems. Here are just three, but the rest are in a book on display with some of the other work we have been doing.
Sam
Exploding volcano
Square ice cube
Yellow sun
Marvellous Antarctica
Flaming fire
Freezing water
Sharp icicle
Floating iceberg
Rifka
Yummy ice-cream
Slippy ice
Freezing penguins
Snuggly polar bears
Burning volcanoes
Steaming hot chocolate
Glowing sun
Flaming fire.
Alex C
Burning volcano shining in the dark
Huge iceberg floating in the water
Smoking coffee in a cup
Fluffy white snow on the ground
Burning microwave on the cupboard
Melting ice cream in your hand
Flaming fire on a twig
Massive freezer on the wall.
