Thank you so much to this morning’s secret reader…. Leah’s Mum! Leah’s mum chose ‘Little Lost Penguin’, she told us that she had chosen this story because it was one of her favourites and that she had been reading the story to Leah since she was a baby. The children really enjoyed the story and gave it a big thumbs up, we really love penguins in Snowdrops!
Year 4 Hawthorn have shown some fantastic team work during out D&T lessons. They worked in groups to create their mountain structures. Some of their ideas didn’t go to plan, but they didn’t give up and used some brilliant problem solving. How amazing do our finished mountains look!
We have really enjoyed our story of the Stickman this week. We talked about what the Stickman was used for throughout the story, then thought of our own ideas of what we could use sticks for, we had some amazing ideas; a fishing rod, a walking stick, a broomstick for a witch and lots more exciting ideas!! Later in the week we talked about how the Stickman floats out to sea and did our Read more
Next week is hour of code week, however we are extremely busy next week with our nativities so we have completed it this week. As part of hour of code we looked at what algorithms are and when these are used. Next we played on ‘The grinch at Christmas.’ We had to set some algorithms to help deliver gifts for Christmas. Each level got harder and harder but we did really well. If we got Read more
Ash have had a fun but busy afternoon. We learnt why we make Christingles and what each part represents. Then we made our own Christingles and managed to resist the temptation of eating the sweets on them. We also made our Christmas jump up’s ready for the school Chridtmas fair. We all had lots of fun making these then watching spring up into the air. They are for sale at the fair for £2 Read more
This week we have been learning about Stick Man in Reception. We have enjoyed looking at the different seasons and retelling the story. We have loved learning the repetitive phrases! Stick Man helps Santa deliver all of his presents, so we have been writing our Christmas lists for Santa. It was lots of fun! We have then been making our own stick men in the outdoor area. We carefully thought about how we were going Read more
Children learnt about why we make Christingles and what each element represents. We had lots of fun making them but the sweets were so tempting and our classroom smells like oranges now!
This week, we have a different way to celebrate advent. We have 24 Christmas books wrapped up under the tree and every day in advent, one child will be able to open one. We will unwrap the book to see which it is and then his book will be shared during snack time. Everyone is super excited to see which Christmas book we will read next! Today, it was Mollie’s turn to unwrap a present under Read more
Willows have been learning all about Sir Francis Beaufort who made the wind speed scale for sailors. He was the captain of a Royal Navy ship and he made a scale based around whether it was safe enough to go out at sea or not. We looked at the scale and then went outside to test the wind with ribbons, to see if they moved with the wind or not. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a Read more
This week we are reading Stickman. To start off our week we spent the afternoon outside looking for sticks that would make perfect stickmen, we found lots of different shapes and sizes! We then used our sticks to make our own stick people on the ground, some were big, some were small, some were dancing and some had leaf hair! We had lots of fun and enjoyed looking at each other’s creations, we can’t Read more