Rebecca’s World Day 10.11.17
What a fabulous day! Our Year 3/4 children had a dress-up day, coming as characters from our class novel, Rebecca’s World. We saw a variety of creative costumes that children (and parents!) have worked hard to produce. Well done to all the glittery Mr Glisters and his henchmen, cautious Kovaks, green Grisbys, super scientists, reliable Rebeccas, superhero-wannabe Captain Ks and last but not least… the GHOSTS!
School Council
The newly elected School Council have been given their badges by Miss Parling (School Council leader) and are proudly wearing them. They have also taken part in their first decision as elected members. They voted on the type of fundraising the school will do for Children in Need on 17 November. It will be a non-uniform day with a suggested donation of £1.
School Council and Democracy Week
During Democracy Week (16-20 October 2017) pupils took part in the democratic process as they voted for their class representatives for School Council. Congratulations to the elected candidates and we hope they have a successful year representing the views of all the pupils in our school.
Amazing, astounding, adventurous Adjective Dress Up Day!
What an amazing day we had! Everyone had thought carefully about their adjective and been creative with their costumes. It brought grammar to life in year 1 and 2. We discussed synonyms and antonyms of different adjectives and grouped them accordingly.
We wrote about our own adjectives and also came up with silly sentences containing too many adjectives. Continue to talk about adjectives at home and encourage your child to use ambitious vocabulary; it’s fun to talk about the meaning of words! Try a challenge: can your child come up with three alliterative adjectives to describe something? (The title of this Class News post is an example to get you started!)
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Well done to our Golden Star this week.
Strictly Flex Dancing!
All year 1 and 2 classes enjoyed learning new street dance routines taught by a dance teacher from Flex Dance. We used our agility, balance and coordination skills to great effect. We then performed our routines for each other!
Home Link – Bonfire Night
We’re sure that you’ll see and hear lots of fireworks this weekend as some people celebrate Bonfire Night.
Talk to your child about the different shapes, colours and noises that the fireworks make.
Can you create your own firework picture or model?
You might want to use paint, draw, collage or make something using boxes. It’s up to you – be as creative as your child (and you) would like!
We can’t wait to see your firework inspired artwork and models!
Potions and pumpkin soup!
What fun everyone had during the half term holidays.
Thank you for sharing all your half term fun with us! It was wonderful to hear about all the different activities and adventures the children experienced. We love to share news, photographs and souvenirs during group time. It provides an excellent opportunity for developing your child’s speaking and listening skills and of course, helps them to gain the confidence to talk to their peers. There was a delicious smell coming from nursery this week as we made pumpkin soup. The children helped to chop the vegetables and picked different herbs from the outdoor area to flavour the soup! There were some very creative potions made in the water and sand as the children explored capacity, colour and let their imaginations run wild with some very horrible looking ‘recipes’. Outdoors, some very observant children found the biggest worm on the grass which grew and grew before our eyes as it wriggled under the soil. We began to discuss length and use lots of different words to describe and compare the size of the worm. “It’s enormous…the longest worm I’ve ever seen!” The children have loved making their own obstacle courses in the large construction area. There was lots of cooperative play, mark making and number play as we awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places!.
What we are learning this week
Leading on from the Guy Fawkes weekend fun, we will be having a bonfire and firework theme as we incorporate all the wonderful colours, sounds and shapes into our provision. Outdoors, we look forward to using the ribbons and scarves to dance and move like fireworks. We will be getting very messy as we create our own firework art on a large scale using the powder paints and some very interesting paint flicking techniques – please see this week’s reminders! We shall be talking about the children’s own experiences and continuing with the safety messages highlighted at this time of year relating to fire. This of course leads into creating a ‘firefighter’ small world area to reinforce learning across so many of the areas; language, creative play and making relationships to name a few. By using bubble wrap, we hope to not only recreate the ‘popping’ sound of their fireworks but also strengthen our fingers in preparation for the super mark making (early or ‘developmental’ writing) we do during our play. We will continue to use number skills as we count out objects from a larger group and learn another number song about 5 firefighters!
Reminders
- If you have any old adult shirts could you please send them to nursery to protect clothing during our firework art activities. We do have some but possibly not enough to go round everyone.
- Please check the entrance area towards the end of the week for signing up sheets for Parents meetings. These will take place W/C 20th November and be held over several days and at various times as to provide as much choice as possible.
- If you would like to share any none urgent information with us please get in touch using the nursery email scholesf1@spherefederation.org
Thank you for your continued support.
Tell us about your bonfire night!
Monday news next week will be all about Bonfire night. To encourage your child to share their bonfire night experiences, bring in a time to talk sheet or email us some photos/comments – scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Monday news is a great chance for your child to build their self-confidence by speaking in front of their peers. It’s also a valuable time to develop their communication and language skills.
Ukulele
Y3 children really enjoyed their ukulele lesson with Mr Oliver today. We practised our chords from last half term: C, A minor and F. We also learnt a new chord, G.
Tennis with Dwight
Our tennis lessons with Dwight are progressing well. Today, we practised our forehand and backhand. Dwight commented on how impressed he was with the improvements in hand-eye co-ordination.
