Kingfishers in Action!
People and Places
Week 8
Mr Aldis came into school this week to tell us all about the Aldis Farm Shop. He brought a variety of vegetables for us. The children have enjoyed using their senses to explore the vegetables and then to sketch them.
We have also started our new planter project and, after half term, will get some winter pansies and spring bulbs in to brighten up our outside area.
Week 7
After receiving a letter from the Three Little Pigs asking for help, the Kingfishers set to work exploring building materials for a new house for them. The children decided on some criteria to guide their building efforts. During the building process the children tested their designs at various ‘stations’ to see how well they had met the criteria.
Week 6
This week in our science learning, we have been exploring materials. We had a scavenger hunt to find things around the classroom with certain properties e.g. soft, bumpy, flexible. We played a matching game with objects and the materials they are made from, and had a mystery bag of kitchen utensils to explore the materials used in everyday items.
Week 5
We are going to become experts in the community spaces around our local area. This week, we took a walk, following a map and noting the places used by lots of people. Back at school, we got into small groups and have started working on our Mantle of the Expert project. So far, we have made notes on what we know already and thought about what we would like to find out.
Week 4
We have been using role play and Catch 1 Partner to explore the feelings of various characters in the story of Beegu.
Week 3
For the last couple of weeks, we have been reading and writing about the book ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon. We have been empathetic learners by thinking about how some of the characters might be feeling at different times in the story. We have also been aspirational by writing captions for some of the beautiful illustrations. Some of us read our work out loud. When we had finished, the Year 1 children placed translucent counters on capital letters and full stops while the Year 2 children placed translucent counters on adjectives they had used in their captions.
Week 2
This term’s music learning is all about ‘beat’. We experimented with a variety of instruments to find and keep a fast beat and a slow beat. We even tried out some household items as percussion instruments with plastic bottles, coffee tins and chopsticks.
Week 1
Welcome back! We have launched straight into our new topic with lots of fun learning. In maths, we have been exploring numbers to 20 and beyond. The children have used a range of classroom resources to represent numbers in different ways.
In science and geography, we are learning about our school environment. This week, we went looking for signs that we are at the end of the summer. We found green and brown acorns around our oak tree and were fascinated by the patterns and textures.
