A wonderful week!

Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:36pm

What a busy week! Christmas performances, stomping on the crunchy frosty grass, being scientists for the day and even creating some amazing caves for the Gruffalo.

Our traditional Tales topic took us on a journey looking at the different settings of stories. We had a class quiz and really showed that we knew our stories very well! We also looked at a local Author, Nick Park and had a go at creating Gromit the dog.

We talked about stories we read at home and decided that Julia Donaldson was a firm favourite author. We read The Gruffalo and also The Gruffalos Child. We also watched the final clip of the mouse creating the shadow of the big, bad mouse.

This lead us nicely into our super science lesson. We learnt about light and how shadows are made. We then experimented all day. Indoors and outdoors we drew around shadows, created shadow puppets and made our own shadow puppet theatre. Our super scientists discovered that their shadows had changed places later in the day and also that they could make them bigger and smaller depending on how far or close they are from the light source. 

It was lovely of Mrs.Watkinson to join us this morning. Mrs. Watkinson is one of our school governors and the children thoroughly enjoyed her visit today.

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas Play. The children enjoyed learning the songs, the actions and the story. They really did want to get on that stage and use the microphone! Thank you for your help organising costumes.

Our homework this week is to focus on our tricky words, phonics and our reading books. Please feel free to cut up the rainbow words and use them as you like. Some ideas from last year were to have them going up the stairs or on kitchen cupboards. Please share any great ideas with us and we will pass them on.