It's 2018, a fresh start and what a great first day! The children were beautifully behaved, in a zombie-ish quiet kind of way. I Think some fingers have been dying to wrap themselves around a pencil because they all did some great writing using capital letters and full stops.
It's great to be back, but this wasn't the main reason why I'm updating the blog. It was more of a heads up about a few upcoming events.
This half term, we will be learning about Kings and Queens.
I wanted to mold it towards the children's interests. No point in learning about beheadings when really they wanted to learn about the family tree. So I've asked them to go home and have a think this weekend, maybe do a bit of pre-research about Kings and Queens and things associated with this era.Things we have already come up with are:
- The Current Queen and her family
- Tales of Dragons and Knights
- Coats of arms
- Shields, helmets and swords
- Maybe even host a banquet/dress up day at the end of the half term, with mead (apple juice).
Have a little think about it and write a few bullet points of what you would like to learn about, maybe something you have found in a book, or some research you have found out using search engines.
Lois has already done some research into the Queen's corgis. She found out names of her previous dogs but was left wanting more. What are the names of her Corgis now?
Then Mrs Ivory had an amazing idea... Why not write to the Queen and ask her? Let's do that!!!
English
In English next week we will be reading a story about a girl who loses her teddy whilst helping Dad with some chores in town. So that we can recreate our own lost teddy story the week after. On Monday I'd like the children to bring in a soft toy of their own so that it can feature on the front cover of their story. We will be talking in pairs about our teddy; why we chose to bring this one in, where did we get it from, what it feels like, what is our soft toy called, what adventures have you been on together.
Miss Morris will also be bringing in a teddy of her own and will tell the story of the time she left it on the bus.
PE kits
Not sure if the message has got around to everyone, but tomorrow is Friday and therefore is PE day. We will no longer be doing yoga as a regular weekly thing anymore, instead this slot will be our gymnastics time, where the children will work towards their Bronze and maybe even their Silver badge award. So get practicing those forward rolls and tuck jumps.
Maths
In maths this very short week we've been recapping about place value. We have played on a game called pop the penguin as a class. "It's sooo fun" says Eesah. Have a little try of this at the weekend if you like. We've mostly been focusing on 2 digit numbers, with the odd dabble of 3 digit numbers. There is a mini game however where you have to do addition with regrouping, I've been completing that round for them because it's kind of tricky. see how you go.
