Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
World book day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 12:32pm
The Elephants all looked amazing today and have enjoyed world book day so far, thank you for all your efforts! So far we have had a story session at the library with Tom,he read us some funny stories, we have had our photo taken and written about our character and have had a story quiz.This afternoon we are looking forward to the book swap, making a book mark and reading more stories! A lovely day!
Music fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Mar 2019 @ 7:18pm
Well done to Elizabeth and Thomas who took part in a swimming gala and won lots of medals, we are very proud of you and enjoyed hearing your exciting news!
Today the Elephants enjoyed their regular music lesson with Mrs Bolton, they had a funky warm up and then played the glocks , it sounded very good 🎵🎵
Yesterday the children bought home their treasure boxes that they made in Jigsaw lessons, they completed lots of different challenges and made a reward for themselves out of clay, well d9ne Elephants for being up for the challenge!
Learning about plants, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Feb 2019 @ 2:57pm
This afternoon we have started to enjoy our science learning, finding out all about plants. We discussed what a plant was and then explored the school grounds choosing 4 plants to draw. We had a sheet to help us find out what the names of some of them were.
This morning in Maths we had fun doubling, some of us played a rocket doubling game with a friend.
A gritter visit!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Feb 2019 @ 3:46pm
Today we had an exciting visit from a gritter truck. All classes went to see it and we learnt some very interesting facts, ask me what I can remember! It was huge, we were able to walk around it and look carefully at all the different parts to it. The one that came to school was called Holly Chilloughby , we have been asked to think of funny names for the others.Get your thinking caps on and let us know ,we will enter your ideas into the competition.
Being designers, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Feb 2019 @ 5:41pm
This afternoon the Elephants designed their own moving picture using all their new skills to help them . They had to draw out their design and then go and make it. they all tried really hard and their designs look fantastic- well done 👍
More creating!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Feb 2019 @ 12:47pm
Yesterday the elephants learnt another new way of making pictures move - using a wheel ,it was tricky to make the face the right way up! We kept going and were proud of our pictures.
Marvellous moving pictures, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Feb 2019 @ 4:25pm
Today the lelphants enjoyed a visit to the library where we had a pop up story session. We bought some books back to school to help us with our DT project which is to design a moving picture. Today we experimented with making a slider to move our pictures along. They looked great!
Jigsaw challenge, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Feb 2019 @ 3:54pm
Today the Elephants enjoyed their Jigsaw challenge which was to work with a partner, set a goal and design a welly together. They were encouraged to take turns, listen to each other and be a great team together.....and they did! They were all fantastic not one argument and some amazing wellies designed. Well done super star Elephants😜
Finding out about the Uny Kingdom , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 5th Feb 2019 @ 7:53pm
Today we enjoyed learning about the United Kingdom and the 4 countries that make it up. We looked in the atlas’s to find out about the world and to help us make our Jigsaw country pieces to put together to make the UK. It was tricky to get them in the right place and to make sure that the countries were all the right size compared to each other ...but we did it!!
Designing a new cereal box, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Feb 2019 @ 4:05pm
The children have really been enjoying our story this week There’s a lion in my cornflakes and it was voted our favourite story of the the 3 we have read so far. This week we written our own versions with free sea creatures instead and alll sort of things going wrong! The children had fun creating their own cereal boxes today , writing what sea creature was free, the name of the cereal and trying to use lots of adjectives. They look great! They will be coming home next week with a copy of the story in it.
A big thank you to Bobbys mum who has recycled old sweat shirts and PE tops to make a lovely blanket for us in our reading area. We love it!
3D shape fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Jan 2019 @ 4:59pm
This week we have been learning all about 3D shapes, looking for 2D shapes on them and using different words to describe them.
In English we are enjoying the story There’s a Lion in my cornflakes.We are making up our own stories using sea creatures.
Science work has been sorting animals into mammals, birds and reptiles.
Investigating 2D shapes, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th Jan 2019 @ 7:45pm
We have been learning a all about 2 D shapes - some familiar and some new ,pentagon and a hexagon .Describing them learning new words, vertex- vertices, curved. We enjoyed making shapes with cardboard strips and geo strips and sesigned shape pictures, counting how many of each sheep we had used.
Phonics in the sun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 12:34pm
We had a great phonics session enjoying the sunshine.We had to look for pebbles which had sounds on and write a word with that sound. We were fantastic!
Measuring fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2019 @ 3:21pm
We have been comparing the mass of objects in Maths.We had to find things heavier and lighter than a bag of sugar ,1kg, order some objects heavier to lightest using the balancing scales and then to find the smallest and tallest in our group but we were not allowed to go back to back or line up!
Happy New Year, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 3:36pm
The elephants have had a busy week making New Year promises, enjoying the story No thank you! In English Problem solving with numberlines and estimating steps to 50. In Maths,They also enjoyed throwing and catching yesterday afternoon and really had a lovely afternoon decorating a treasure box as part of our Jigsaw work.
Phew...busy,busy ,busy!!
They have come with a letter today outlining our learning for the half term ,which should help with project ideas.Remember it can be a hooky or interest too.
Have a lovely weekend😀
Gifts from year 1, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:12pm
A massive thank you to Mrs Pratten, Mrs Thomson and all of year 1 for our lovely gifts, from year 3.
Merry Christmas!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Dec 2018 @ 4:10pm
Mrs Thomson and I would like to wish all our fantastic Elephants a very happy Christmas.We hope you all have a wonderful time and see you in the New Year!
A big thank you for all our lovely gifts not expected much appreciated x
Christmas fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2018 @ 5:40pm
We had a busy morning filling the Princess Mary tins with goodies for the school. We are going to take them round tomorrow and tell classes what they are and why we have made them.
This afternoon was party, party , party! We had fun dancing, playing games and meeting Father Christmas.
A big thank you to the 6ear 6 DJ’s who were amazing Thank you !
Christmas dinner fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Dec 2018 @ 3:34pm
We all had a lovely Christmas lunch - 😋
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Dec 2018 @ 7:25pm
Today the elephants enjoyed a visit to the library for a Christmas story session . There were a couple involving Brussels sprouts and some interesting noises!
We also used our finger painting skills to make a 4 season tree for our calendars.
Class compliment fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Dec 2018 @ 3:45pm
Well done to the elephants who enjoyed their class compliment this afternoon. They bought in onesies,teddies, blankets and snuggled down to watch Horrid Henry,an interval of pop corn and lemonade made a great way to finish a busy week😊
A busy week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Dec 2018 @ 4:03pm
This week we have put on our Christmas play ,It’s a baby.We hope you all enjoyed it , we think we were amazing!
We have also been using grapes to help us with our fraction work, were able to share them out equally by sometimes having to chop them on half.
Today we used the large apparatus in our gymnastics lesson, we did some great travelling, jumping and rolling, we earnt a class compliment for our fantastic listening🙂
We are looking forward to our class compliment treat tomorrow!
Cooking Gingerbread people!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Nov 2018 @ 5:03pm
The elephants had a lovely morning baking gingerbread people, the small around school was wonderful!
We also designed our own gingerbread people , using icing, raisins, cherries , chocolate chips and smarties and are looking forward to decorating them tomorrow.
A big thank you to Elizabeth’s mum and Freya’s Grandma who were our amazing helpers😁
Chocolate maths😁, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 3:32pm
Today the elephants have been learning about halves and quarters using shapes and chocolate! We talked about halving and how it has to be 2 equal parts. We used Kitkats to show halves first and then quarters ( and yes we did eat them!)
It was lovely to then hear the children at lunchtime talking about half a sandwich, half a pizza and even discussing quarters.Elephants you really are fantastic!!
Finger painting fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 3:34pm
The elephants have really been inspired by Van Gogh.They added to their sketch books on Friday and had a go today at painting the real thing! They were all very proud of their artwork and quite rightly so.
This morning we enjoyed being outside and role playing the story of the gingerbread man.We split into groups, decided who was who and then sequenced the events. We showed our stories to the other groups. We were all fantastic!
