This week in RE we talked about happiness and contentment. We discussed what makes us happy and when we feel content. As part of the lesson we enjoyed listening to music and thought about about how the songs made us feel. We finished the lesson by creating a happiness tree.
Yesterday in biology we learnt how animals adapt to live in their environment. We discussed the importance of adaptation and what would happen to animals if they don’t adapt to their environment.
Yesterday In RE, we discussed what makes us happy and our rights as children. We then created our leaves to put on our happiness tree for display.
Yesterday in both reading and science, we were active learners doing read and hunt around the room activities. In reading we read sentences from this week’s texts on ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ and ‘How fireworks work’, then made sensible attempts on the meaning of given words using the context to help us. In science we gathered facts from around the room about the adaptations of different plants and animals from the rainforest. We went on to teach a partner about an animal we had researched.
Class 7 began their pop art work! They worked hard and concentrated well on being able to cut out shapes accurately, print their dots and created beautiful pop art style patterns in their writing.
Firework crafts underway here in Nursery. Lots of wonderful conversations about colour, sparkles, dark and light and onomatopoeia words such as ‘bang, pop, fix, shoot’. The children have also been looking like scientists and sketching like artists when creating observational drawings of the pumpkins.
Today we have enjoyed listening to songs and dancing with scarves and imagining we are shooting up to the sky like fireworks! I think you can tell from the children’s faces how much they enjoyed this gross motor and expressive arts activity. Some children chose to also play instruments to make ‘bang’ sounds just like a firework.
This week we are talking about fire safety and enjoying dressing up, role playing fire fighters and painting bonfires. We have been learning about Guy Fawkes and the British celebration of Bonfire Night and the meaning behind it.
Next Tuesday (11.11.25), Year 2 will be hosting a family learning event linked to creative writing. We hope that you can attend this date, which will begin at 1.30pm. Please come through the main entrance and we can take you to your class.
We look forward to seeing you 🙂
