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Good Afternoon. We have had a lovely first week back in Green Class, despite the recent staff changes. We have been working hard on revisiting routines and familiarising ourselves with the new staff. Here is what we have been up too in our learning:

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English:

We started the week off by sharing some of our half term news , with some of us building sentences using colourful semantics. Our text this week has linked to Early Civilisation / Stone Age with the text being 'Cave baby' by Julia Donaldson. During the course of the week we have learnt about the different animals painted in Cave baby's home and collaged them. We have also explored the animals in the story by using paint to print their footprints , written using natural materials to represent the stone age era as well as using pictures to retell and sequence the story.

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Phonics

In Phonics some of us have been exploring and identifying environmental sounds, some of us have been exploring and writing the letter m and completing a sorting activity with some pictures starting with the m sound and some not.

Another group have been exploring the 'ea' sound similarly to the above activity.

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Mathematics

In Maths we have been working on our PLOs with some of us using Numicon to make totals.

On Tuesday we went outside for our Maths and enjoyed collecting twigs and natural objects to create 2D Shapes.

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Topic (Colour my World)

We introduced the topic by learning about bonfire and the history behind bonfire night. We then used Autumn leaves and twigs to create bonfire pictures. They looked great! We have also made chocolate apples and edible sparklers as well as creating our own fireworks pictures by printing pom pom bouncy balls . We also further explored printing by printing with autumn leaves.

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Autumn 2 Week 2

Green Class – Our Learning This Week

Green Class has had a busy and exciting week! We continued our work on Ug by Raymond Briggs, learnt about Remembrance Day, and enjoyed lots of fun activities for Children in Need

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English

In Green Class, we began exploring the story Ug by Raymond Briggs as part of our Early Civilisation topic.

·         We found out that Ug lived in a cave with his mum and dad and wore stone trousers!

·         To help us understand how these might have felt, the children handled real stone and used adjectives such as big, heavy, and rough.

·         We then made a collage of Ug’s trousers using sandpaper. Some children wrote sentences about Ug, while others built sentences using colourful semantics.

We also looked at Ug’s Stone Age diet, comparing the foods he ate with the foods we eat today.

Other activities Green Class enjoyed included:

·         Describing Ug’s cave

·         Starting to create our own caves from shoeboxes

·         Rolling stones in paint to make Stone Age–style artwork

·         Rescuing frozen Stone Age animals from ice.

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Maths

This week in Maths, Green Class continued to work on their PLOs.

·         Many children used Numicon to support addition and subtraction

·         During our outdoor maths session, we went on a Numicon scavenger hunt in the woodland area, finding shapes and matching them to numerals — great fun!

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Science

Green Class have been learning about light. We took part in a carousel of activities, including:

·         A visit to the light room

·         Exploring light-up sensory toys

·         Sorting pictures into sources of light and not sources of light

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Topic – Colour My World

To mark Remembrance Day, Green Class listened to a story and made beautiful poppies using red paper plates, stickers, and handprint leaves.

We also created apple-printed poppy artwork linked to our art focus.

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Children in Need

Green Class celebrated Children in Need with lots of themed activities, including:

·         Baking teddy bear biscuits

·         Decorating spotty biscuits

·         Making our own sponge Pudsey teddy bears.

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This week in our Topic lessons, we have been learning about Thanksgiving. We waved the American flag, listened to the National Anthem and talked about things we are thankful for . We created a pretend Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed a range of Turkey themed crafts, including making playdough turkeys and using cardboard tubes to print and make our own turkey pictures.

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In English we have finished reading the story of 'Ug' by Raymond Briggs and chose adjectives / symbols to describe him after he tried to make his own trousers out of animal skins to keep warm. We also did some cave painting to design Ug's cave. They looked great.

We also read the story 'How to wash a Woolly Mammoth' by Michelle Robinson.

We explored the story by making footprints of the mammal and following instructions to wash the mammoth. We also sequenced the story.

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We have continued to learn about light and that we see objects because light is reflected in our eye. We explored the notion of reflection by looking at ourselves in mirrors and changing our reflections by dressing up!

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Linking to our theme of colour we followed instructions and took turns to make jam tarts. They were delicious!

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In phonics some of us have been exploring environmental sounds, some of us have been exploring the letter sound /a/ and some of us have been exploring the /ee/ sound.

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We have continued to add two numbers and make number bonds by exploring and using Numicon apparatus.

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This week we have been learning about the story of 'St Andrew' linking to the Scottish festival and our topic 'Colour my World'.

We had the opportunity to listen and explore the story with small world activity in the tuff tray . With St Andrew being a fisherman we also participated in some water play with boats. We chose words to describe St Andrew, built sentences using colourful semantics and sequenced the story. To support our understanding and linking to 'Arts Week' we marbled some fish templates. They look great!

We concluded the week by writing lessons to Santa which we hope to post soon.

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This week we have continued to learn about light and have explored different materials to see if they reflect light. We found out that shiny materials such as the foil, mirror and CD did this.

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The focus of our topic this week has been 'St Andrew's Day' which is celebrated in Scotland. Coinciding with the story in English we have listened to some traditional Scottish music , collaged the Scottish flag and had a go at making at playdoh Loch Ness Monster. We have also made some shortbread and decorated them with the St Andrew's cross and dressed some cut outs in traditional Scottish clothes.

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Some of us have continued to explore environmental sounds, some of us have been recognising words with /ee/ sound whilst most of us have been recapping and learning about the letters and sounds 'm' 'a' and 's' . We have had the opportunity to practice forming the letters, recognising some words that start with the sounds , as well as having a go and building and writing some of the words .

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This week we have linked our baking session to St Andrew's Day and the colour blue. With the Scottish theme we made some Scottish shortbread and using icing, we decorated it with the Scottish flag / St Andrew's cross.

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Our focus this week has been on subtraction. To support our understanding of subtraction we have actively engaged in number songs with a sensory focus , with examples being '10 Current Buns' and '10 Fat Sausages' . We all did really well taking our turns and splatting the buns / sausages when it was our turn , before counting how many were left each time.

We have also used Numicon to aid our subtraction calculations, with some of us subtracting from 5 and some of us subtracting from 10 and above.

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It has been Arts Week this week at Kingsbury’s. This has linked well to our work on St Andrew’s Day as we have marbled some fish templates. We have also printed with dinosaur footprints ( links with Loch Ness) Monster) and have used paint in spray bottles to paint with dinosaur templates . We had a lovely week.

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In addition to the shortbread we have also made salt dough Christmas trees. These will be used as Green Class’s Christmas contribution to Kingsbury’s Christmas tree .

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Autumn 2 Week 5

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This week we continued learning about light by exploring shadows in the classroom. We made our own shadows using a light source and watched how they changed when we moved. We also matched pictures to their shadow silhouettes, looking carefully at the shapes. Finally, we used toy farm animals and a light to create shadows and used chalk to draw around the different outlines.

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This week we have been learning about 2D Shapes. On Tuesday for our outdoor Maths we went on a 2D shape hunt and looked for examples of everyday 2D shapes in the environment. Some of us have identified 2D shapes in pictures , made shapes and learnt about some of their properties . Another group have explored 2D shapes in the tuff tray and matched them as well as making patterns with the shapes.

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Our focus this week has been on the Nativity , looking at the civilisation of the time .

After listening and exploring the story in English we depicted Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem by painting a lovely sunset background and using silhouettes of them and the donkey . We were proud of our art work.

On Thursday we created and coloured the nativity scene of Jesus’ birth using lolly sticks .

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In sensory baking this week we have made gingerbread men. We enjoyed exploring the smell of the ginger and mixing the ingredients . We particularly liked decorating them and eating them!

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We have been listening to the story of the nativity this week. To showcase our understanding some of us have built sentences about the story using colourful semantics.

Other activities to support our learning have been exploring characters and animals in the hay and washing some of the animals found in the stable.

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Topic - Nativity Scene using Lolly Sticks 

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Topic - Nativity Scene using Lolly Sticks 

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After visiting the church on Friday we had a lovely afternoon exploring messy play. We had fun playing in shaving foam and gloop.

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Continuing with light and shadows we enjoyed exploring Christmas themed shadow puppets in our home made shadow puppet theatre .

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This week we have continued to learn about the nativity. We have listened to the story, built sentences using colourful semantics as well as making some crafts to link with the story. The crafts included making sheep pictures from cotton wool and making a decorating crowns for the Three Kings / Three Wise Men. Other activities have included sorting what baby Jesus would need e.g. milk , blanket and crib and concluding the week by sequencing The Nativity in order.

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This week as part of our topic we have been learning about Christmas and have made some Christmas crafts to get us in the spirit. On Tuesday we used sensory materials to make some snowmen Christmas cards. We used cotton wool , google eyes and ribbbon for the snowman and did some finger painting with white paint for the snow.

We have also made wreaths out of paper plates , pom poms and ribbon.

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Maths 2D Shape Art in the style of Paul Klee

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Maths 2D Shape Art in the style of Paul Klee

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Using our work on 2D Shapes we created some art work in the style of Paul Klee , who used 2D Shapes in his work 'Castles in the Sky'.

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Green Class were donkeys in this year’s performance. We all tried really hard to learn the signs and songs. The performance was a huge success.

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We have used 2D Shapes to make some Christmas pictures. We used circles, rectangles and triangles for snowmen and triangles , squares and circles for a Christmas tree.

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This week we have been learning about 3D Shapes . On Monday we listened to some songs about 3D shapes and explored the tuff tray to find and match the shapes on the given cards.

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Our story in the run up to Christmas is “ The Grinch.” On Monday we came to class to discover the Christmas Tree was missing . We discovered the Grinch had taken it. After listening to the story we made some wanted posters , made a Grinch mask from a paper plate and sequenced the story. We also had opportunities to watch part of the animated film.

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We have continued to link our topic to Christmas. On Monday we made some melted snowman biscuits

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We went to find 3D Shapes in the school environment.

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On Tuesday Green Class met a special visitor - Father Christmas.

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We have enjoyed painting with ice cubes.

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Green Class enjoyed Christmas dinner together in the hall. The table was decorated with a green Grinch theme.

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Green Class enjoyed their Christmas party. We enjoyed dancing in the hall to Christmas songs and playing pass the parcel. We all did really well taking turns.

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We painted our hands to make some Santa handprints. The paintbrush was tickley.

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On Thursday Kingsbury Primary School had a snow machine. Green Class enjoyed playing in the snow.

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We mixed bicarbonate soda and hair conditioner to make snow. We then made little snowmen before watching them melt using vinegar.