Story Teller. Week Ending: 27.01.17

Hello,


In English this week we used similar themes and ideas from the story 'The Blue Coat'. 
Leyton- "Mine was called The Golden Jacket"
Ollie- "Mine was called The Golden Waistcoat"
Bella- "My story was called The Purple Dress"
"In the story there was some repeated phrases" Alex
The piece of clothing kept getting smaller and smaller. It started as coat, then it turned into a jacket, then a hat, then a bow tie, then a button and then the final gift was a story.


During dance we practised the next part of our dance routine. It is coming together well! Some of us brought our umbrellas from home to use during our dance.

This week we had a special visitor called Ian. He was a story teller and he told us the story of a lazy boy called Tom. 

In RE we have been talking about special places of worship. We discussed what we might see in a church and what Christians do at church. 

Well done to Bella who is our Star of the Week for being a caring buddy.

Snowy will be spending the weekend with Joshua as Joshua has really been challenging himself with his maths learning. 

On Wednesday we had another special visitor.... Mrs Carey came to see us! She told us all about her school and was impressed with our learning. 

Creative Stories! Week Ending: 20.1.17

In Creative Writing today with Mrs McLellan we have been writing our own creative stories. We are going to try and enter some of our stories into the BBC Radio 2 Writing Competition! Wish us luck!

In Maths we have been learning about time and symmetry. Our Home Learning this week is to practice reading and telling the time. 

Our artist this term is William Morris. We have found out facts about William Morris and we have become artists this week. First of all we practised our sketching skills and then we have designed our own floral wall paper. Next we are going to add paint to our wallpaper designs.

In Games we are moving onto Tennis. This week we have been trying to use control when handling the tennis ball.

Congratulations to Oliver who will be taking home Snowy this weekend as Oliver has really challenged himself with his learning.

Well done to Holly who is our Star of the Week because Holly has been brilliant at sharing her ideas with others!

A letter went home today about our Year 2 trip to Waddesdon Manor. Please fill in the form and return it to school.

Have a good weekend.

Chestnut Class

The Gruffalo... what's a Gruffalo? Week Ending: 13.01.17

Hello,

This week we have welcomed Charlotte into Chestnut Class.

In Dance this half term we are going to be learning a sequence of movements to 'Singing in the Rain'. If you have an umbrella at home that you would like to bring in you can, as we will be using this as a prop within our dance.

This week we became authors as we retold the story of 'The Gruffalo'. Before we did this we thought of some adjectives to describe the characters and we also sequenced pictures from the story.

We have been showing off our maths skills this week by using lots of different strategies to help us to answer maths questions. 

We became scientists as we explored kaleidoscopes in science. " First we looked through a kaleidoscope, then we had one mirror and we made a pattern. Then Mrs McLellan gave us two mirrors and then we wrote about it in our books" Theo.
"We got a piece of paper and put some sequins on it and then we got one mirror and looked in the mirror. Then we got another mirror which made it look like there were lots of mirrors." Teddy

This afternoon in PSHE we were thinking about special people and why they are special to us.

Congratulations to Grace who will be taking home Snowy our Learning Owl for always be ready for her learning and her fantastic listening skills!

Well done to Teddy who is our Star of the Week for taking care of his classroom.

Home Learning this weekend is to research the artist William Morris ready for our Topic learning next week.

Chestnut Class

Welcome Back! Week Ending: 6.1.17

Happy New Year!

We have been back at school for 2 days now. 

Yesterday we drew pictures of what we got up to over the Christmas Holidays. Then today we wrote a recount about our holidays. 

Yesterday afternoon we sketched a self portrait and challenged ourselves to include detail.



Chestnut Class