Friday, 9 November 2012

Week beginning Monday 5th October 2012

 This week we did lots of climbing at the park. We had a great time!
 
Mrs Willerton sets us little challenges to do at home in our home-school diary. This week we had to find lots of writing at home. Mrs Willerton gave us a special sticker.

After our weekend we like to write about what we have done in our news books. We get to stand on the red spot and show the rest of the class. We clap each other to say well done, sometimes it's a marshmallow clap! It makes us feel proud. If we think it's good and we've tried hard we put it in the happy green box.

We started to write some of our numbers in glitter and playdough!


10 in a bed singing and taking away.
 We have to be patient and take it in turns, we can't always have what we want straight away!

Mr Casey the caretaker left us with this huge box, we started a game. We tried really hard to ping the counters into the box. It's making our fingers stronger for writing.

Using elastic bands to launch some rockets.

 There's even more leaves on the ground now! They are very crunchy.
We had so much fun.
 
We are getting very good at helping each other.

Sharing our half term news in our home-school diary.


We are learning our sounds now. Some of the boys prefer to do their writing outside.
 

Oh no! We dropped the paint, but it's ok, we can tidy it up. We've got an old camcorder and there's lot's of firework painting to be filmed.


Counting down and exploding like fireworks! Look at all the shapes we can make!

A man came to talk to us about being safe when we playing on our computers at home. He taught us a fantastic song.

 One of the boys in our class had a cars poster. We pointed to the one we liked best. The next day Mrs Willerton showed us how to do a tally chart. We visited other classrooms and asked the children "Which is your favourite?" It's one stick for one person!
 
 
We noticed that it's getting dark in the afternoon now. Mrs Willerton showed us some pictures of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. Some of the girls paint their hands, I'm doing my own Mendhi pattern.

Making Diva lamps out of clay.


"Do you like my Pizza?"
Hmmm, perhaps next week we might learn about different foods and make some pizzas! Don't forget about light and dark Mrs Willerton, that's what we want to learn about next.

Friday, 19 October 2012

Week beginning Monday 15th October

Last week I told Mrs Willerton I would like to learn the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, so that's what we did! We went to Y6 to sing our song, they really liked it!
 
This week we have been learning how to use split pins. My teddy moves! We did all the cutting out ourselves.
 
How many have you got in total?
 
Pretend birthday cakes!

We're making porridge for the three bears. They are equal!


Counting out....I have got 10 here and 10 here, that makes 20!

This is my guitar thank you card!

How far can you travel?


Measuring with a ruler.
 

 
Developing our fine-motor skills.
 


We waited patiently and took it in turns without Mrs Willerton's help!

Trying out our new ride ons! It goes quicker down the ramp.

Friday, 12 October 2012

Week beginning 8th October

Pheeeewww! What a busy week learning lots more new things!

This week we have got much better at listening!
 
 Look at my list! I did all my writing outside today.
 
Look at these potions. We have been reading 'Room on a Broom' this week. We came up with some fantastic rhyming words.
 
mix, fix, licks, sticks
bat, cat, rat, mat

 
We like to help each other when we struggle with our buttons. Mrs Willerton will help us, but only when we've had a try first.
 

 
We mixed Kippers birthday cake. It was disgusting!
 

 
This week we have introduced monitors for snack time. We come in from the playground quietly and listen to the music. We wash our hands and somone pretends to be Mrs Willerton. We are able to do snack time without any help.

 
 All the leaves are falling off the trees this week! That's because it's autumn. We enjoyed looking at information books about autumn in our reading area. We filled up the tuff spot with conkers, pine cones and crispy leaves. We did lots of counting and sorting.

 
This week we took home a reading book from the pink basket. Mrs Willerton told us a good story just by looking at the pictures. We've got some huge picture books and we love reading outside. All of us can tell a story from the pictures and we take different ones home every week.



Lots of the boys chose to write outside this week. We hold the paper steady with one hand. We enjoyed doing lots of tracing this week. 

 
Guess who I'm looking at...
 
Wow, some real guitar teachers came to visit us. We sang lots of songs and we even invited class 1 to join us. We were very gentle and touched a 'real' guitar. It was amazing.