Fox
Welcome to Fox Class
Class Teacher: Miss Grant
Classroom LSA: Mrs Dance
PE day: Wednesday - CM Sports, Thursday - Tennis
Forest School day: Thursday afternoon
Library day: Friday
In Summer Term, the children will have their weekly P.E lessons on a Wednesday and Thursday.
On Wednesday afternoons, they will be outside with specialist sport's coaches CM Sports.
On Thursday mornings, they will have tennis with a tennis coach.
On these days, please ensure children come to school with long hair tied back and earrings either removed or taped over. Please ensure P.E kits are kept in school at all times and returned after a club. P.E days are subject to change with timetabling issues and weather.
Meet the Teacher
WANTED
Today, we wrote WANTED posters for the lion or mouse from the story The Lion Inside. We enjoyed using new vocabulary to describe them and different punctuation in our writing. We hope you like them.
Tennis
This half term, we are lucky to welcome Will - a tennis coach. We have completed our first session and have learned how to be in the ready position, how to sandwich the ball with our hand and racket. We have also learned how to drop the ball and gentle tap it over the net. We are already showing great skills!
Rainforest
We enjoyed a trip to The Living Rainforest to enhance our learning this half term. As we stepped in, it felt humid and moist. It felt like we were in a real rainforest. There were trees towering above us and animals roaming free. We enjoyed seeing the colourful toucan, camoufalged stick insects, roaming armadillo, sluggish sloth and many many more. We learned so much for the wonderful guides there too!
Reading Week
We celebrated our first week of Summer B by participating in a Reading Week. We listened to and read lots of stories across the week. We looked at the Flip Flap series of books by Axel Scheffler and created our own watercolour paintings of mixed animals! It was lots of fun describing them and making up names for them on the computer - where we changed the colour, font and size!
We created a zig zag book using the Oi! series using lots of rhyming words.
We also sketched a Draw with Rob character from one his books and used our sketching techniques to add detail.
Design and Technology
We have been learning how to create a working axle for a moving vehicle. We experimented with different joining techniques and then created a camouflaged jungle jeep to search for dinosaurs. We added a window and door applying our skills for making a hinge from earlier in the year. We love our finished vehicles.
Dinosaurs
This term has been all about the mighty reptiles that walked our Earth millions of years ago. We have created information booklets about them, learned about Mary Anning and her wonderful discoveries as well as create our own unique dinosaurs.
Computing
In Computing this half term we are learning to use ScratchJr to code on the IPads. We have learned to change the background, add and delete sprites (character) and make them move. We have learned how to use the command buttons to create a sequence of instructions.
Sketching
We have been learning different sketching techniques and then had a go at applying these to copyt a sea creature.
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Visit from Wild Science
We were very excited about the visit from Wild Science and loved meeting the animals!
First we met Spot the gecko who had lovely spotty scales and is a reptile. We enjoyed holding him and learning about how he can drop his tail to survive and regrow another one. Next we met Martha the gerbils who had lovely soft fur and they are mammals. We enjoyed stroking them. Then we met Zazu the royal python who is a reptile. Many of us enjoyed stroking him and some of us were even brave enough to hold him! We were surprised he wasn't slimy but instead scaly and smooth. Finally, we met a cockroach who had a hard ecoskeleton.
Subtraction Facts
We have been using part, part, whole frames (or cherry models) to practice our subtraction facts within ten. We found these really helpful so we could see the ways the numbers linked together.
Number Pairs
We have been using tens frames to practice our pairs of numbers within ten.
Gymnastics
Since September, we have been practicing our balances and shapes in gymnastics. This term, we have used apparatus to support us to change levels, direction and speed. We are travelling using different parts of our bodies and challenging ourselves to have a strong core. We really enjoy gymnastics!
WANTED
We have been looking at the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been thinking of adjectives to describe the horrid troll who lives under the creaky bridge. The troll has gone missing so we have created wanted posters to help find him. We hope you like our descriptive posters.
Dips and Dippers
As part of our Design and Technology lessons we tried a range of dips and dippers. We decided if we liked the smell, taste and texture. We used words to describe these, such as, fresh, crunchy, wheaty, sour, sweet. We look forward to making our own dips in a couple of weeks.
You Choose
After reading the book 'You Choose' by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart we enjoyed looking at all the amazing illustrations and talking about the different choices we would make. We then drew our own pictures and wrote what we would choose.
Computing
We have been learning how to use the touchpad and left click button when navigating the computer. On purple Mash, we enjoyed using 2Paint a Picture and the 'swirly' programme to create Autumn Trees.
