Home Link – Plants and growth
We’re going to continue talking about last week’s home link activity as not many of you had chance to be creative! Please scroll down to the ‘Plants and growth’ Home Link post from last week.
We’re also going to learn about the letter ‘n’ sound. If you find something beginning with the letter n, please bring it in for our sound shelf. Remember to write your child’s name on it.
Bikes, bubbles and bunnies!
We were really pleased that Peter Rabbit’s friend, George, could visit us on Tuesday afternoon. The children were really well behaved; they asked Gemma lots of questions about how to look after rabbits and they were gentle and calm around George. Photographs to follow!
Children have been fascinated with the tadpoles and have really enjoyed observing them closely with magnifying glasses and finding out about their life cycles in non-fiction books. They’re looking forward to watching them develop into tiny froglets!
On Friday morning, we were really lucky to be able to watch the ladies Tour De Yorkshire race from the playground. We took the flags that we had made and waved them, cheering as the cyclists, flashing police bikes and a helicopter went past. Afterwards, we stayed with the older children in school to watch a skipping performance and we took part in Wake Up Shake Up.
Week 3 – What are we learning this week?
We’re going to continue our learning about growth and life cycles, focussing on plants this week. We will learn:
- about the life cycle of a bean plant. We will plant our own seeds in bags and cups so that we can closely watch what happens. We’re hoping to see something similar to this video.
- about the letter sound ‘n’. Listen to the Jolly Phonics ‘n’ song.
- to operate a remote-controlled toy around Mr McGregor’s garden.
- to use positional language to describe where Peter Rabbit is hiding. There’s a video on YouTube that might give you more of an idea of the type of language that children need to be able to use. For example, Peter Rabbit is… in, on top of, underneath, behind the table.
- about bubbles – they seem to be a common interest amongst many children at the moment!
What makes a good toy?
We used the diamond 9 technique, which promotes oracy, to discuss what makes a good toy in our topic lesson. It was interesting to hear the differing views of the children.
I think a good toy should be multi-player so you can play with your friends.
I like toys to last a long time and not break!
I really like electronic toys.
Tour de Yorkshire in Scholes
We enjoyed the excitement of the Tour de Yorkshire coming through Scholes on Friday. Each class decorated a bike to display and the whole school went outside to watch the women’s race speed past. We did some WuSu (Wake up, Shake up) dances while we were waiting and the Year 4 skipping team showed us their skipping dance from the skipping competition, too. It was a day to remember for sure!
Golden Stars!
Well done to the golden star children from F2.
Writing warriors!
We’re very proud of our writing warriors this week! Writing warriors are children who have been chosen by Wiz the writing warrior to complete important writing missions.
Since becoming writing warriors, we’ve seen an excellent change in attitude to writing. The children are excited to write to complete missions and will persevere when writing challenging words. We have seen a huge difference in the writing warriors writing and Wiz is very impressed. If your child is a writing warrior have a look at the writing warrior folder in the classroom. You can see the fantastic writing missions they’ve been completing!
Well done, writing warriors!
Living and Learning – Mental health and wellbeing
Across Year 3/4 classes, we have been learning about how to deal with difficult feelings and emotions.
Our activity today was to role play a time when people might give put-downs (a negative remark about about a person, sometimes said as a joke). We explored ways of how to deal with these situations by giving ourselves a ‘put-up’.
Skipping Festival
A massive well done to the year 4s who took part in the skipping festival on Wednesday! Not only did they perform amazingly, they represented our school with pride; showing resilience and great teamwork.
Living and Learning – BIG emotions
This week, we talked about different types of emotions and discussed whether some are stronger or ‘bigger’ than than others. We use mindfulness techniques to help us deal with big emotions. You could try mindfulness at home. Go Noodle has some great ideas. One of our favourites this week has been Bee Breath.
Living and learning: Polling day
Today, we talked about how our school was being used for a polling station. We talked about what it means to vote and decided to have our own vote in class. The children voted for the teacher they wanted to read them a story. We told the children that only those wearing a jumper could vote.
“That’s not fair!” the children said.
We talked about how to make it a fair vote.
“So you can make it fair by everyone voting… can take it in turns (to vote).”
The children then shared who they wanted to vote for. This led to discussions about different opinions. We talked about how our friends may have different ideas and views to our own.
“It doesn’t matter what they like and don’t like – they can still be friends.”
