The children in class 2 are learning all about the Great Fire of London. They have been running through the narrow London Streets to avoid the fire in Dance and learning songs from the 1600s in music. In history we have been finding evidence which tells us about the Fire of London.
This afternoon they have been bakers and as you can see in the photos, the children worked very hard to make, bake and sell baking goods as they would have in 1666.
Class 2 are having lots of fun in English this week. We listened to the story of the ‘Tin Soldier’ stopping at the part where he gets carried into a drain! Then we have acted out the story which was great fun in our soldier costumes and have written a story map of the story so far. Next we are going to write our own ending.
The children in Class 1 have been looking at this beautiful picture book. We have looked carefully at the characters in the story and talked about where they are, what is happening to them and how they might be feeling. The children looked carefully at the illustrations and how they, rather than words, are used to tell the story. Yesterday we made a map of the different journeys in the story and today the children have done some writing to accompany the pictures from the book. To finish off, they have made a paper plate wolf. They have really engaged with this story and the two main characters in it.
Science club continued with their designs and made their cars tonight. After some test runs and many modifications they all produced quick moving vehicles.
PE in Class 1 this term is focussing upon ‘Jumps and Rolls’. For the last 3 weeks we have been looking at different types of jumps, leaps and hops – what they are called and how we do them properly. We have made sequences of these jumps. Today we got a bench out and chose how we wanted to travel along the bench before choosing which kind of jump to use at the end.
We tried to incorporate some kind of balance in the middle of the bench too.
Our jumps, leaps and hops are starting to look really good, especially when we remember to bend our knees and, use our toes not flat feet. Well done Class 1.
Class 2 had a wonderful afternoon investigating sources of light around our school. We walked around the school and drew pictures of all the sources of light we found, which was quite a lot!
In science club tonight, we investigated speed and tested cars and wheels for their speed in order to design a vehicle that will be tested next week! It was fun and the children took it very seriously.
Here is the latest traffic news from Class 1.
As part of Road Safety Week, we drew a chalk road on the playground. The children then walked along the ‘pavement’ looking for a safe place to cross. We couldn’t cross near the parked cars or too near the corner but we could use the zebra crossing. The children reminded us that they needed to ‘Stop, Look, Listen and Think!’ The children also took turns pretending to be cars driving on the road for their classmates to look and listen out for.
Well done Class 1.
This weekend many people celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali. In art club today we looked at the Mandala patterns that are drawn outside people’s houses during these festivities. We used watercolour paints to colour them in once we had drawn our designs.
