Week 6

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Week 3

We were pretending to be toy soldiers this week in dance. We thought about how we could make our bodies move like a wind up toy soldier. The children didn’t bend their knees or extend their arms and tried hard to stay quite rigid as they moved. We created a dance in sections of 8 beats.

In phonics we have been revisiting our phase 5 sounds and applying our phonics knowledge to writing sentences by dictation. The children have also started to practise reading alien words (word that are not real) to test their phonics knowledge.

The Turtle class loved using clay in art this week. They first turned their ball of clay into a tablet of clay and then used different utensils to draw an imprint of an ammonite fossil. They all worked hard on this challenging task and their clay is currently drying!

In gymnastics, we revisited our learning about small body parts in our warm-up with a game where the children moved around the room until they heard the shaker and then created a shape using their small body parts. They also made sure that their muscles were strong and their toes pointed! We then practised our rolling and created short routines that consisted of moving around the room, turning, rolling and bouncing before finishing in a finishing position. The children performed their routines and then explored these movements on the appartus.

Week 2

This week, the children explored programming the Beebots to make them follow a short path. They played a game in pairs where one person in the pair gave the Beebot three instructions and then after the Beebot had finished moving, their partner had to guess what the instructions were. 

In science, we did our investigation about absorbency. We tested three materials to find out which one was the most absorbent so that we could tell the three little pigs who needed to clean up the mess that the wolf left when he fell into the pot from the chimney! We discovered that the sponge was the most absorbent because it sucked up the most water.

This week in history, the children learnt about Mary Anning’s life and how she has become known as one of the greatest fossil hunters that ever lived! The children learnt that being a female fossil hunter in the 1800s wasn’t easy! They learnt that Mary, at age 37, would have seen Queen Victoria ascend to the throne in 1837! They now know about the dinosaur fossils Mary discovered including an ichthyosaur, a plesiosaur and of course ammonites. They also now know that some examples of these fossils can now be found in the Natural history museum in London!

In gymnastics we were rocking and rolling our bodies. The children then created routines which they performed to their peers. 

We created wonderful ammonite art using iPads this week. The children carefully chose the colours and effects available in the drawing programme to recreate the images from the photographs they were given. 

We have been comparing mass in maths this week. the children have compared mass using the language ‘lightest’ and ‘heaviest’ and ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’. We then used multilink  or unifix as a non-standard unit of measurement to weigh objects from around the classroom and then used this to compare the mass of these objects.

To practise using the fantastic adjectives we have learnt, we did a drama activity where we became Mr or Mrs Grinling or one of the seagulls and described the food that was passing from the cottage to the lighthouse. 

Week 1

Welcome back Turtle class! 🐢

In gymnastics this week, we were rocking and rolling! The children experimented with  different ways to rock. They rocked their bodies on different levels and in different shapes and thought about their strong muscles and pointy toes and fingers whist doing so! They then took their rocking into rolling and practised tucked rolls on their sides. 

The children loved their history lesson this week. They uncovered some animal bones in our outside area! The children were mostly convinced that we had found ourselves a dinosaur! After our careful excavating, the children drew the animal that they thought they’d discovered. Many of them said they felt excited unearthing the bones!

We used charcoal to draw fossils in art this week. They children created some wonderful drawings using this difficult drawing material! 

In computing, the children were very excited to learn that we would be using Beebots this half term. This week, the children had the opportunity to show me what they already know about these very cute bee robots 🐝. We talked about the buttons on the top and what the children thought they did. They then had the chance to test the buttons to see if they were correct!

In dance this week, we became soldiers. We marched to a steady beat and then created a 3-part class dance. It was fabulous! 🤩