Acorns Class

Welcome back everyone. We hope you have had a fantastic Easter and got lots of Easter eggs.  Please share any of your trips on Orbit. We love to see what the children have been learning in their holidays.

This week we are looking at the Tour de Yorkshire which will be coming through Whitby…

The children have had a lovely week based around Easter.  We have learnt about the Easter story and read it together on a powerpoint. We have been learning about chocolate and some of us tasted cocoa powder - we didnt like it very much. We have also been on an Easter egg hunt. We had to…

This week we have been busy learning all about how plants grow.  

The Wise Owls have tried really hard to independently write a sentence about what a plant needs, and we have remembered to segment the words, use finger spaces, a capital letter and a full stop.  

The Super Squirrels have been…

We have had a really interesting week watching the frogspawn hatch in our classroom.  Mr. Cockerill will be pleased to know that we wont be having any frogs jumping around our unit, as we have safely returned the frogspawn to the pond! We will keep visiting the school pond to see what exciting…

How lovely that Spring is finally on its way.  This week we have begun planting.  We discussed what a plant needs to grow.  We did a little experiment to see what conditions a plant will grow under, and put our plant pots in some weird and wonderful places to test our theories!  Watch this space.…

'Night and day' has been our topic this week.  Wise Owls have looked at the postion of the Sun during different times of the day, and we have also looked at shadows.  We have sorted objects that give us light and talked about the importance of the Sun.  Super Squirrels have been looking at jobs…

This week we have been to the moon! We have been talking about what it would be like to live there and how it would be different than to live here on Earth. We thought it might be cold and we would need to wrap up warm.  We have been learning the names of the planets in order and have also made…

The Acorns children have had a lovely week learning all about Chinese New Year. We counted to 10 in Chinese Mandarin. Click on the link below to share at home

We watched the Chinese Dragon dance video and learnt why firecrackers are used during the festival.  Watch the video about Nian to…

Zoom Zoom Zoom we are going to the moon! The children have been really enthused about our space work and have made wonderful playdough models of aliens.  In maths, the Wise Owls have been looking at subtraction and counting back.  We have been counting in tens and doing our exercises at the same…

Ash Class   26th January 2017 

What a busy week! We have been learning all about fractions. We can now find fractions of amounts, can order and compare fractions and can solve problems involving fractions. We have become much more confident and have used manipulatives to help us! Next week,…

Wise Owls have been really interested in finding about the life of an astronaut.  We have created our own role play area and written our own space logs.

We have shared the story of 'Baby Brains' and also watched it. Click on the link below to share at…

This week the Wise Owls have been counting how many aliens are on the spaceship.  We have been using language involving addition, including plus, add, how many, altogether, equals and total.  We have also being counting on a number line by throwing a dice and "jumping on", e.g. how many jumps from…