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Elephant Catch Up, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:03pm
Monday
Morning task - remove the last e before adding the suufix er or ed
Spelling - splitting this week's words into two lists: cious or tious
Reading - The Yule Lads - Spoon Licker , a story from Iceland
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, mixed questions with fractions
English - present perfect and past perfect verb tenses
Science - lots of Christmas fun completing our investigations into how mirrors work.
Tuesday
Phonics - correcting misspelt words
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, finding fractions of amounts
English - planning a new ending to The Highwayman
DT - working hard to finish our amazing playgrounds.
Party fun!!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 6:30pm
We had a great time this afternoon at our party,lots of dancing, games and a visit from Father Christmas!
Tuesday Christmas week, by Mr Pearson
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 4:12pm
Today the children have been researching different world religions. We then watched a short film about the life of Moses.
We have also been learning to multiply two digit by two digit numbers.
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https://www.longton.lancs.sch.uk/page/multiplication-upper-ks2/588
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Penguin Patrol!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Dec 2023 @ 9:42am
What a busy week! Lots of happy and excited penguins.
This week we have all been on penguin patrol. We have been looking after our friends, passing on smiles and looking after one another on the playground at lunch time. We have been working with different friends in class and everyone has enjoyed learning and sharing with each other.
In maths we have been learning about four sided shapes. We have been shape detectives and have enjoyed using some tricky maths equipment to make 2D and 3D shapes.
Our Christmas dinner was a very happy and festive occasion as well as our visit to Longton library. The children were amazing listeners to the Christmas stories and several people commented on how polite and well mannered the children were. Super stars!
We had a story time with Santa this week. Our year one friends came to join us. We even sent Santa an email and saw him on our class screen. We had to wake him up first!
We have had a very creative classroom this week with glitter and glue, Pom poms and paper being used everywhere.
Friday was an amazing drama and IT afternoon. The children blew my socks off!
Lots of art work and crafts will be coming home this week. Please send in a carrier bag with your child’s name written on it. I will send things home steadily throughout the week.
Reading books will be changed and sent home for Christmas. I will also send home the ‘All about me’ book so your child can add some extra pictures and writing to share in the new year. Some books did not come back after the October half term holiday - please check as the children thorughly enjoy sharing these books with our class and their buddies.
We are looking forward to a final week of festive fun and learning! Party time, stories and Christmas stockings! Cards, calendars and planting too! A sleigh to build, carols to sing and a stable to create! Candy cane phonics, cheeky elf writing and a beautiful nativity for you to watch!
CAD drawing excitement, by Mr Pearson
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 2:50pm
The Koalas have had an afternoon of fun learning by using Tinkercad, a software package to teach the children the basics of CAD drawing. The children will eventually make their final designs using a 3D printer that school has been loaned.
Exciting times.
Thursday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:34pm
Today has been very busy and lots of fun too.
Morning Task - grammar task
Spelling - check up of this week's spellings.
Maths - double fluent in five followed by more dividing fractions.
Fun videos with sining and dancing to help us remember grammar and punctuation
Christmas dinner followed by a long playtime and a movie afternoon.
Christmas dinner!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 4:41pm
We enjoyed our lovely christmas dinner today - especially pulling the crackers!
Yesterday we enjoyed being Geographers on a walk to Longton to sketch the different featues of Longton. Back at school we sorted them into physical and human features. We added some in that we know are in Longton but didn't see, like the Brickcroft, the park and the playing fields.
Koalas adventure in Blackpool Panto, by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 4:48pm
An excellent time at the panto in Blackpool
A visit from Santa, by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 4:45pm
Some of the Koalas had breakfast with Santa today.
Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 2:24pm
Here's what we have been up to today :
Morning task - phonics activity to correct spellings
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences to improve our vocabulary.
Guided Reading - The final chapter of The Night Before The Night Before Christmas.
Maths - Fluent in Five, reasoning and then we learnt to divide any fraction by an integer 4/6 x 2 = 4/12
English - developing our understaning of adverbs and adverbials, how they are used in sentences, whar they modify and how we punctuate sentences containing them.
This afternoon LPS+ - working on our poem to perform at the Carol Service in church and making calendars.
Tomorrow is Christmas Lunch day so Christmas jumpers can be worn along with the usual uniform skirts and trousers.
Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 8:33pm
Our day
Morning task - phonics changing the y to i and adding er and est to words such as happy.
Spelling - box dictation which is where we write the words by writing letters in the correctly shaped boxes.
Guided Reading - today we read The Night Before The Night Before Christmas Chaoter 2. Today was a vocabulary focus.
Maths - Fluent in Five and Reasoning followed by divison of fractions by integers.
English - we identified literary features in a narrative poem .
DT - we continued to work on building the structures for our playground projects. They are beginning to look really good.
Homework Help, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 11:19pm
There are a number of documents and a powerpoint on the class website page to assist with maths and grammar homework
What have we done today?, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:13pm
Monday
Today we have ....
Morning task - revised adding the suffix es to words ending in y. Someties it makes an i sound as in complies and sometimes it makes an ee sound as in babies.
Spelling - we discussed the meaning of the suffix ful and then identified it in this week's spellings.
Reading - we enjoyed reading the text The night before the night before Christmas together and the did an awesome job answering our VIPERS questions.
Maths started with Fluent in Five ( 5 arithmetic questions) and a reasoning task. Most of us then worked on multiplying fractions by fractions. Some children did some work with Mrs Atkinson on mixed numbers.
English - started by listening to the poem The Highwayman - lots of the class were joining in . Today's English task was working with a partner to do a vocabulary task. Having chosen 5 words from a vocab list the children wrote what they thought the word meant in the poem before looking it up in dictionaries- book and online.
PE - it was evidence day today in Gymnastics. The class did an amazing job creating gymnastics sequences using counterbalance and countertension. The sequences were videoed for assessment evidence.
During RE some children went with Mrs Brown to chrch to deliver the Christmas art boards, some were sewing with Mrs Atkinson and some were getting more points for the class on the Times Tables Rock Stars Tournament. We will look at confirmation later in the week when we are all together.
Tomorrow afternoon we will be finishing our geography unit and doing some more work on our playground structures in DT.
Our week ahead., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 6:11pm
Maths - in maths this week we are looking at shapes with four sides and we will be making shapes by combining them together. We are also revisiting different ways of making four and five. (2+3=5)
Phonics - this week the children will be working with Mrs. Morrison and myself to do a phonics check up. We will look at which sounds have stuck and which sounds need a little more work. I have had my socks blown off already! The children have been working hard in class and with you at home with your sound cards. Thank you!
Stories - our traditional tales have taken us to the Jolly Christmas Postman and also The Snowman.
Adventures in the village - tomorrow afternoon we will be going to Longton library for a Christmas story session and an art and craft workshop. Please send hats, gloves and coats so that we are prepared for all weathers. The children will all wear a high visible waistcoat over their coat whilst we walk in the village. ( Library cards are not needed on our short visit tomorrow) We will be back at school and ready for home time as usual.
Christmas jumper day on Thursday.
Friendships - we are doing lots of activities and circle times where we talk about friends, talk about how to be a good friend and also sharing positive comments about our penguin family. We are practising team work and also lots of partner time with different friends.
Hickory's reading treat!, by Ms Gaskell
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:08am
We are extremely lucky as a school to reward our children for thier continuous reading throughout the term. Last week we went to Hickory's and enjoyed a milkshake masterclass with pancakes with a huge amount of choice of toppings and sauces. The children made a variety of milkshakes from Lotus to Oreo. What a sweet treat! Well done to those children.
Busy busy, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 6:30pm
The Giraffes really loved the pantomime this week ,especially the flying Man!
In Geography they enjoyed learning about where we live and using the terms rural, coastal and urban.
They're great at using the chrome books and have enjoyed using the drag pad to create jigsaws and yesterday starting to become familiar with the keyboard,
Today they enjoyed mark making in Art.
Have a lovely weekend :)
Super Penguins!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:59pm
This week the penguins have shared lots and lots of proud moments and I would love to share some of them with you.
On Monday our class Christmas Post Office opened. The children have been busy wrapping and weighing parcels, writing cards and then taking them to the post office to be stamped and delivered. (If you have any unwanted old / used cards please send them in as we are getting through quite a lot each day!)
On Tuesday the children used the large climbing apparatus in the hall. We were climbing the Beanstalk. The penguins listened carefully to our safety rules and all enjoyed the apparatus. We will use it again next week and attach balance beams to it.
On Wednesday we had a bright and early start with our trip to the pantomime. The children were fantastic and had a lot of fun. They even had a Christmas sing along on the bus with Kelly! The flying man in the pantomime had everyone amazed!
On Thursday, Mrs. Pratten came to visit our classroom. We were busy in drawing club thinking of where Goldilocks could take Baby bear to say sorry for demolishing his chair and guzzling down his porridge. Mrs. Pratten was amazed by the children’s amazing imaginations and also their drawing and writing. Super stars!! Lots of genius gems were awarded.
We also made Gruffalo crumble today. It was a huge hit and everyone said that the smell of it cooking was amazing. Super, brave penguins! Almost everyone tried it and almost everyone had a second helping!
Longton Christmas Bake Off, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 9:59pm
Thank you to all of the children who entered the Longtn Christmas Bakeoff on Friday. The number of entries was fantastic and there were so many wonderful bakes. The Mayor and Mayoress of South Ribble took a long time to judge the bakes. Congratulations to all of our bakers.
Great Longton Bake Off, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 11:20am
On Friday the great Longton bake off took place. The Koala tribe entered the most cakes and were successful in winning and coming second in the in KS2 competition. Well done to all especially Amelia, Georgie and Rebecca.
Knowledge harvest, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 11:14am
Today we have been harvesting our knowledge of what we have learnt this term and what we have remembered.
A wonderful week!, by Mrs Thomson
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.
Fantastic Nativity play, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 12:15pm
A big well done to the Giraffes for fabulous performances of there Nativity play. They worked hard learning lines, singing songs and knowing when to come on and off. We were very proud of their confidence...definitely F. A. N. T. A. S. T. I. C!!!!
Busy Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 9:08pm
The Elephants have had a really busy day .
The day started with a visit to Longton Library where Helen shared lots of really interesting facts about Christmas. She then read us some Christmas poems and chose some of the children to read poems aloud.
Next the cildren all got to make gorgeous Christmas cards.
Back in school the children worked hard in English to bring scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest to life with actions and dialogue. The rsults ww=ere amazing.
Congratulations, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Nov 2023 @ 5:34pm
The Elephnats have been shining and have earned themseleves a number of class compliments for displaying Longton behaviour. They have now achieved 20 compliments and which means they can choose a class treat.
Well done Elephants- I am super proud of you .