Our Spring 1 Journey
Below you will find our Spring 1 curriculum overview as well as '10 Things to do at home.'
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Exploring the cold
We were excited to receive a letter from a winter Gonk.
The Gonks sent us a poem to learn. We learnt lots of new words.
Winter Time Poem – Mary Ryer
Icy fingers, icy toes,
Bright red cheeks and a bright red nose.
Watch the snowflakes as they fall,
Try so hard to count them all.
Build a snowman way up high,
See if he can touch the sky.
Snow forts, snowballs, angels, too,
In the snow, so white and new.
Slip and slide and skate so fast.
Wintertime is here at last.
This week, we’ve been exploring ice! We discovered how ice forms and what makes it melt. We even made our own ice by freezing water and watched it melt when we brought it into our warm classroom. It was so exciting to see science in action!
The Way Back Home.
We looked at the front cover of the book and talked about what we notice.
“There’s the moon, it’s a crescent moon.” Dawud
“Look at the bottom, there’s houses.” Miles
You can listen to the story here.
We have used junk modelling boxes to build out own rockets, spaceships and aeroplanes.
We discovered some unusual prints in our classroom! We investigated what it could have been.
We read a story called 'Look Up' about a girl who wanted to be an astronaut - we found out more about what this means.
We were really excited to look through Mr Midgley's telescope!
National Storytelling Week
We listened to a poem by Simon Mole called 'Earthworms', from this, we decided on our own story character, setting and adventure.
In Swans class, we created our own story about a spider. The children chose all of the words and actions together, working incredibly as a team and learning to tell it with so much enthusiasm. We even performed it for our parents and some children in Year 5. Here we are performing it.
We also made our own story maps and characters.
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In Ducks class, we created our own story about a butterfly The children chose all of the words and actions together, working incredibly as a team and learning to tell it with so much enthusiasm. We even performed it for our parents and some children in Year 5. Here we are performing it.
We also made our own story maps and characters.
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Big Garden Bird Week
We have loved taking part in the Big Garden Bird Watch this half term. We have worked with Joel learning to recognise different garden birds, discover where they live, and spot the features that help us identify them. We have created wonderful bird-inspired artwork, became expert bird spotters in the bird hide, and made bird feeders.
Maths
Look at all the amazing maths learning we have been up to this half term!
Pizza time!
We enjoyed making Pizza for Zog and his friends to try back on their planet 'Zigzog'.
