Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
PSHE - Jigsaw bingo, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Sep 2021 @ 8:48pm
We played a great game this week. We filled in a bingo board with our answers to questions like our favourite colour, subject food, the worst TV programme, someone they admire, what sport they would win an Olympic gold medal in etc. We then had to go around the room to find someone who had the same answer and write their name in the box. If they managed to fill 3 boxes in a row they shouted ‘Bingo’. It was a great way to get to know our friends better, see our similarities and differences and accept each other for who they are and how we can like different things and be friends. A fantastic Elephant tribe.
Meet the teacher, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Sep 2021 @ 8:41pm
Thank you to those of you who joined our meet the teacher chat. Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it, all the information is to be found on the main class page of our website and I have also added a year 4 general info section to google classroom.
Please let me know if there is anything you would find useful for me to post on here for you.
We are hoping to be able to go swimming this year I will let you know the details as soon as they are available.
How do we make the bulb light up?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Sep 2021 @ 1:52pm
First few days back., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Sep 2021 @ 8:57pm
3 days back and the children have been amazing, they have settled back in and are shining brightly. This week we began our science topic all about Electricity, explored 3 and 4 and 6 and 6 digit numbers, reading and writing them! Our English work is about the genre of Fantasy. We are focusing on dragons as an aspect of this genre. We have read a book called - ‘Tell me a dragon’ and matched up sentences to describe the dragons before having a go and writing our own. We have linked this to our art unit of work where we will explore shades of colour using pencil crayons before designing and making a dragons eye out of clay.
WELCOME BACK, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Aug 2021 @ 8:01pm
Welcome back Elephants.
We are looking forward to catching up with you all tomorrow. Entrance into school is the same as year 3 and your coat pegs etc are all in the same places.
Remember to bring your water bottles, P.E. kits and return any reading books and your reading record if you didn't hand it in before the holidays.
If you have completed your holiday passport bring that in as well or upload it to the google classroom page.
Mrs Catterall
Final call for LPS+ badges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Jul 2021 @ 11:56am
I’ve been through a few submissions for either the gardening badge or world conservation badge. Please send your info over via google classroom if you have completed either badge so we can celebrate your success.
Skeleton models, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Jul 2021 @ 11:41am
Party day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Jul 2021 @ 11:15am
We had great fun for our summer term birthday party. Dancing and games in the hall followed by a jelly moving competition - it was harder than they thought. We finished off with some excellent birthday cupcakes.
Growing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 11:50am
This term we have been planting seeds, caring for the growing seedlings and then the plants.
They have certainly grown. The elephants have green fingers!
The peas and radishes have grown and we have been able to try the peas - they were very sweet.
The bug man visit, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 11:39am
This morning we had a visit from the John Vale. He talked to us about vertebrate and invertebrate as we got to see some animals of different types.
Well done Elephants you were outstanding at listening during the whole session and were very quiet so as not to scare the creatures.
Pippa asked an amazing question and we found out that some animals shrink as they get older.
The slime from an African land scale kills germs. (Elizabeth)
Snakes are venomous not poisionous. (Olive)
I didn’t know that some animals can see hot and cold, that was interesting, it was why we couldn’t look directly at them. (Elizabeth)
Spider’s webs are the strongest material in the world. If it was as thick as a pencil it would stop a jumbo jet. (Noah)
Eco- Council Reminder, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:38pm
Remember to have your presentations ready if you would like to be considered for this role.
LPS+ badges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:37pm
Just a little reminder for those of you who have been working towards your LPS+ badge for this half term (Gardening or World Consevation) to be collecting together your evidence and submitting it to the assignment in Google Classroom.
I'm looking forward to seeing it and us sharing it with the class.
Skeletons - what do they look like?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2021 @ 6:42am
We worked individually then in groups to create a drawing of what we thought our skeletons looked like. Then we sorted some given bones into a body outline before playing a race against time game to check our skeletons against a correct one and move the pieces as needed. We finished by naming some of the bones with their common names and their scientific names.
Our final half term in year 3, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 10:28pm
The sun has been shining and I hope you have all had a lovely break. I'm looking forward to finding out all about your half term fun. There are lots of great things planned for our topics this half term and I can't wait to get started.
Please remember to bring to school:
Pencil cases
Water Bottles
PE Kits
Sun hat
Arts Week Friday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st May 2021 @ 7:53am
The final day. We have loved arts Week and learnt lots of new skills. Here are our final toucan prints.
We also made fantastic mask wearing self portraits, when you take off the mask it reveals all our awesome characteristics and our wonderful smiles. They are all amazing the children did a fantastic job.
Arts Week Thursday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 6:05pm
Today we were printing. Earlier in the week we focused on the work of Henri Rousseau- the tiger in the jungle.
We have thought a lot about our outdoor environment and nature during lockdowns with many of us enjoying our country walks. In class we have been learning about the importance of the rainforest so we linked these 2 ideas together to create our own, multi coloured prints.
I only have a 1 photos I’m afraid as my hands have been covered in printing ink most of the day! Final pieces will be photographed tomorrow when they are dry.
This afternoon we took a bit of time out to enjoy some reading in the sunshine, tennis and finished off with a ice pop.
On Monday we make our own art shirts, take a look, can you find inspirational messages or try and spot a rainbow or 2!
Arts Week Wednesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 5:55pm
Here are our final canvases. They look amazing, the children selected the design they wanted and used rainbow colours.
We also made a group fluid art painting.
Arts Week Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 6:26pm
Today we have been preparing for our printing day on Thursday and using acrylic paint to create a rainbow themed canvas. Here are a few photos. We will post our final creations later in the week.
Royal Mail Hero stamp design competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:41pm
All competition entries ready to post off.
Can you see who the hero is?
P.E., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:10pm
Although it’s Arts week the children still wanted their P.E. Lesson. Who can blame them -starting the day with physical exercise -perfect.
hop, skip and jump
balancing a bean bag on your head
throwing a bean bag into buckets.
skipping ropes.
Class compliment, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:04pm
We had a lovely afternoon despite the rain. We played games inside, built Lego models and some children opted for making fairy cakes and chocolate cornflake cakes which they shared with everyone at the end of the day. Well done Elephants, fingers crossed we can earn some more stars and have an outdoor afternoon before the end of the year. Keep shining brightly and I know we will.
Plants, plants, plants, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:41pm
Today we continued our learning about plants. We found out about different seeds and how they are dispersed. We finished the lesson by going into the hall to work in teams to complete a few matching challenges.
Can you match the tree shape to the photo of the tree and the leaf?
Can you complete the loop game matching parts of a flower to their function?
Can you sort the seeds into the forms of dispersal?
Can you match the leaf photos to the names of the trees they are from?
We were all focused on our learning and spotted by Mrs Woolley who gave us a class compliment.
Well done Elephants. :)
How are the rainforests being destroyed?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 6:02pm
We finished the non-fiction part of our rainforest English topic this week by working as a team to research, make notes and then produce a poster to inform others about the destruction of the rainforest.
Anglo Saxon villages, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 5:58pm
Where did Anglo Saxons live? What were their homes like? The children worked in teams to read through the facts and then use these to try and create an Anglo Saxon village.
Chromebooks, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 5:56pm
We have been learning how to use the new chrome books in class. Here we are reading opening up our homework - 4 reasons why the rainforests are important and them creating a slide show of them with more information we have gathered together. For homework the children then had to edit their slideshows changing the font size, colour and adding pictures.
