Our School Adventure
We had such a fantastic day at Piglets Adventure Park on Tuesday. Even though the weather was a little rainy we had an amazing day. On the coach we saw what it is like to drive through a city. We saw different buildings and spoke about how the roads were busy.
We learnt more about what the animals need on a daily basis and the correct vocabulary for adults and their young.
The sand areas were great for us to discuss the beach and ways we can keep safe.
Thank you to everyone who made our trip possible.
Living and Learning: relationships
In Living and Learning recently, we’ve been thinking about happy and healthy relationships.
This week, we’ve been thinking about how we show care each day. We thought about all the different ways we can care for someone: helping a friend with their work, listening to your teacher, doing some jobs at home, give someone a hug if they want one, or asking someone how their day is to put a smile on their face.
We created some freeze frames to show different ways of caring for others.
Help at home: talk about how you can show care to someone over the weekend.
Let’s make a splash!
We have had a very hot but busy week in Nursery. The children have done really well to keep themselves cool and hydrated. We talked a lot about sun safety and the importance of what this means. The children actively knew that when we were outside we needed to make sure we had our sun hats on, sun cream applied and we take some time out in the shade.
and of course a play in the paddling pool is also a bonus!
Our topic for this half term is focussed around the seaside. This week’s book has been… The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson. In our maths learning we are exploring time. We talked about our morning and night time routines, here’s a few examples;
In the morning we wake up- Ella
I have a bath in the night and then put my pjs on and grandma reads a story- Gracie
I like to have a snack before bedtime- C
I like pancakes for my breakfast in the morning- Deacon
Here are some of the activities the children have been getting up to this week …
We made our own ocean exploring colour mixing with cornflour, water and powder paint. The children noticed how it can quickly change from a solid to a liquid.
We designed our own postcards from our favourite places.
The sea creatures were trapped so we needed to get our funky fingers working to untangle them. This process is supporting muscle development and fine motor control to supporting their writing.
We have also started our half term project, making our very own ice-cream parlour!
We hope you have a lovely rested weekend all ready in preparation for our school trip on Tuesday. We are so excited as I am sure you all are too!
Reminder- Tuesday 20 June (Piglets Adventure Farm)
Please make sure your child brings with them a small backpack that they are able to carry. This should include their packed lunch if they are bringing their own, a refillable water bottle, sun hat and some spare clothes just in case. I will be taking my own backpack full of emergency spares so please don’t worry if you forget something on the day.
Any last minute questions please feel free to catch me on the door or email me at: stjamesnursery@spherefederation.org
Miss Ward
Food Technology: Fruit Bars
This week, Year 1 and 2 have made some fruit bars. They had to follow the method in the right order and work carefully with their group.
Today, we evaluated the fruit bar by answering the following questions:
- What part of the method did you enjoy the most and why?
- If you were to make the fruit bars again what would you do differently?
- How did you keep safe when making the fruit bars?
Help at home: What would you do differently if you were to make them again? Have a go at making the fruit bars with any of the changes you suggested. How did they taste? Don’t forget to let us know how it goes.
Week 2 – Seaside Poems
What a lovely sunny week we have had at school! This week our focus book is called ‘Seaside Poems’. We have loved reading and listening to the different poems. We had lots of fun spotting rhyming words and thinking about words we associate with the seaside.
We have really enjoyed learning with our new outdoor equipment. We have investigated how water can move in different ways and made our own beach. The ladder and climbing frame have helped us with our climbing and balancing skills.
We have been thinking about different ways we can travel when at the seaside. Boats are an important vehicle so we decided to create our own.
During circle time we discussed fruits that we like to eat. A member of our class said that they wanted to know where melons grow. We used an atlas to look at different countries and discussed why some things grow better in different places. We enjoyed a tasty snack of melon afterwards.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Football skills
This half term, Year 4 are lucky to have a football coach teaching them in PE. The children have been focusing on acquiring, developing, using and applying skills.
This week’s football focused on passing and receiving the ball. The children will complete a range of drills and games to help their develop the correct technique for passing and receiving the ball both with and without pressure.
Week 1 – One is a snail ten is a crab
Welcome back to a very exciting final summer term! Our topic this term is all about the seaside and different cities.
Our focus story this week is a counting book. We have been looking at the legs of different creatures. We have been adding different amounts together and creating numbers beyond 20.
Our word of the week this week is country. We have learnt more about what a country is and which country we live in and have lived in and different countries we have visited. We created finger print flags for different countries.
We have been working hard on our counting skills. We have been counting amounts to 20. It is important to count slowly and carefully so we don’t miss any numbers.
We have been using our predicting, counting and recording skills in our maths provision. We had to predict how many objects were in the bowls, counted to see if we were right and then recorded the amounts.
We are loving our new physical activities in our PE lessons. This week we have been taking part in ‘ants in your pants’. We have to work in partners and one person needs to get the ants into the hoop whilst the other person moves the hoop away.
Our poem this week is all about thunderstorms. We loved making the different sounds.
As the weather is set to get warmer please can we make sure that everyone has a sun hat, water bottle and sun cream.
Forest School
Today was our first Forest School session. We’ve had a fantastic time building a boggle house. A boggle is a tiny creature that lives in the forest but no ones ever seen it. It’s a small creature that you might see out of the corner of your eye but when you look it’s gone!
We also did some litter picking, swung on the trapeze and swayed in the hammock.
Residential day one and two
We’ve had a fantastic few days at Robinwood. The children are having a great time and embracing all the activities. We have done climbing, archery, zip-wire, raft building, canoeing, giant swing and much more. Before we head home tomorrow, we will be visiting the much anticipated piranha pool, crate challenge and knight’s quest.
We hope to arrive back to school at 4pm.
Living and Learning: I know the ingredients of a happy and healthy friendship.
