Sunday, 27 October 2013
Half-term Hero
At the end of every half-term Mr Mellor chooses a nomination out of the 'Class Heroes' box. Our first hero of the year is Freya - voted for by Fearne for being a really good friend. Both girls received a small bag of Cadburys Heroes chocolates.
Playground Pals
The children in year 2 voted in a boy and girl from the class to become the KS1 Playground Pals. The children with the most votes were Lucy and Max and I am sure they will do a great job. They were very proud to receive their badges.
Playground Pals are always on hand if anyone is upset or lonely in the playground.
Saturday, 26 October 2013
iPad Animations
All children in year 2 worked in small groups to make their own 'Monsters University' inspired animation using the Toontastic iPad App.
The children were quite surprised to discover how simple an animation can be created using new technologies!
They really enjoyed the experience, were proud of their creations and clearly found it funny when watching back! :-)
KS1 Family Film Night
We were really pleased with the number of families that joined us for the chance to watch 'Shrek's Thrilling Tales'.
Movie and Monster Maths
This week our maths lessons have been enhanced by our film week theme.
KS1 Monster Maths Challenge
Challenge winners
Corey's pictogram - great work!!
Amazing addition by Jardan :-)
Super sequencing by Louise
Children practicing their counting and co-operation skills playing a Monsters University board game.
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Cinema Trip
We were treated to a trip to the cinema to watch Monsters University yesterday. It was a fantastic film and we all really enjoyed the morning.
We are very grateful to have received the tickets for free as part of National Film Week. Thank you to all our parent helpers too.
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Monster Animations
The children in year 1 and year 2 enjoyed working together to create monster themed moving pictures (animations).
Award winning animations...
What's in the basket?
Thank you very much to Little Red (also known as Rose) who kindly baked cakes for all the class. Yum yum :-)
Movie Character Dress-up Day
The children looked wonderful in their costumes today - thank you to everyone for their efforts.
Monday, 21 October 2013
Toy Story
In maths today the children learnt how to sort items using a Venn diagram.
This is a Toy Story Venn diagram completed by Rosie. She worked super fast and independently sorted the pictures according to the criteria. Well done! :-)
All if the class loved today's Toy Story themed literacy lesson. We watched the short clip of Woody being fixed and then children had to correctly order stills from the film (showing the different stages he went through to be cleaned).
Although it has been a few weeks since our instructions unit in literacy, the children remembered how to write instructions using bossy verbs and sequencing words.
Outstanding instructions written by Rose.
National Film Week
This week all of the children in KS1 are taking part in the National Youth Film Festival. All of our lessons and learning will be linked to film. It is sure to be a fun filled week and we are really looking forward to our trip to the cinema in Bolton on Wednesday to see Monsters University.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Developing music skills
Julia has now started violin lessons with Mrs Elkinson. She showed the class her violin and how to take care of it and then gave us a demonstration.
Well done Julia :-)
Science
This week in science lessons we have been learning about life cycles.
Frog life cycle by Kyra
We looked at the excellent website 'Froglife' and found put lots more about amphibians. We also found a poster competition that we are going to enter.
You can find the website here.
www.froglife.org/
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Eid Mubarak
The children in KS1 celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha in school today.
After attending a special assembly we took part in lots of different activities in the year 1 and year 2 classes.
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