Christmas festivities

It definitely feels like Christmas is coming in Seashells Class. The children have been enjoying lots of Christmas themed activities over the last two weeks.

Christmas Dinner

On the 9th December we had so much fun eating yummy Christmas dinner sandwiches with extra potatoes and stuffing balls. Everybody wore their Reindeer hats and we had on some festive music. Mrs Laver had decorated all the tables too, it looked amazing! We put the big screen on so we could see all the other classes too. Oh and don't forget the crackers!

Christmas Party

We had an amazing day on 2nd December for our Christmas party. I loved seeing everyone in their super party outfits. The children enjoyed lots of fun and games with all the staff. It was great to have an extra party snack time too. We also had the big screen on so that we could see all the other classes enjoying their parties too. At the end we had a disco with some fantastic dancing.

Christmas Performance

We are all a little sad that we couldn't put on a Nativity in the hall for all of our wonderful families this year but we still wanted to share something festive with you all. We hope that you enjoyed listening to the songs from the EYFS pupils. We watched them together as a class yesterday including parts of from the KS2 and KS1 performances too. The children loved spotting some of their siblings on the screen. We are incredibly proud of the children across the school who have sung, danced, acted and put on the most amazing performances in difficult times. Well done everyone, you are wonderful!

Father Christmas

The children had a special visitor on Wednesday - Father Christmas! He passed by our yard and dropped off some presents. The children sang him a song to say thank you. It was fun opening the presents - they included some brand new lego for our new classroom

Week 6

Forest school day 3

We finally got a dry day for Forest school on Monday and boy did we make the most of it! The children are so fast at putting on their wellies and zipping up coats now that we were out of the door super fast! When we arrived we had a story called 'Where's my Teddy?' Then one of the children spotted a teddy in a tree. We rescued the Teddy and read the note attached to his leg. His name was Tom Bear and he needed our help to find all of his lost Teddy friends in the forest. In the envelope there was a clue to the first bear. Each bear we found gave us a new clue to the next bear. We had to use our reading skills and our maths skills as each clue showed where the bear was hiding in relation to an object. The Seashells were brilliant at finding the bears. We counted 9 in total including Tom. Well done everyone!

Christmas Dinner

On the 9th December we had so much fun eating yummy Christmas dinner sandwiches with extra potatoes and stuffing balls. Everybody wore their Reindeer hats and we had on some festive music. Mrs Laver had decorated all the tables too, it looked amazing! We put the big screen on so we could see all the other classes too. Oh and don't forget the crackers!

Christmas Performance

We are all a little sad that we couldn't put on a Nativity in the hall for all of our wonderful families this year but we still wanted to share something festive with you all. We hope that you enjoyed listening to the songs from the EYFS pupils. We watched them together as a class yesterday including parts of from the KS2 and KS1 performances too. The children loved spotting some of their siblings on the screen. We are incredibly proud of the children across the school who have sung, danced, acted and put on the most amazing performances in difficult times. Well done everyone, you are wonderful!

More outdoor fun

In the afternoon, we listened to the birds and talked about the names of some of them including blackbirds, crows and robins. We talked about the things that birds eat and how it if harder for them to find food in Winter. We made little bird feeders using cheerios. The children were brilliant at threading the cheerios carefully onto their pipe cleaners. 

After that, we listened to another story called 'Walking through the jungle' which we used to craete our own 'walk through the forest.' The children thought of lots of different ways that we could move such as leaping and crawling, we looked around us to see what we could see. 'My favourite idea was from BB who said, Leaping through the forest what can you see? I can see the clouds staring back at me.'

Paramedics

Hi, I’m Miss Najib, the trainee teacher at Walkley Primary School. This week I planned and taught the topic lesson about paramedics, the children have had lots of fun and have loved learning about heroes . This week we had a knock on our door, during our topic lesson. We opened the door and there was a letter and Ted the bear on the floor. We read the letter and we found that Ted the bear hurt himself and he needed help. On the letter it also said a hero came into our classroom, but he had to leave for an emergency, but he had left some clothing and objects around our classroom. Our challenge was to find the objects and clothing to guess which hero we were going to learn about this week. We discussed some questions about paramedics and watched a video to find out more information about paramedics. We had different activities in our classroom. Some children were dressing up in our hospital/paramedic station area. Some children painted a huge cardboard box to make it look like an ambulance. Some children made an ambulance collage. And outside some children built an ambulance with the building blocks and were doing a role play.  

Week 5

We have started feeling festive in Seashells class this week. On Monday the children were greeted by a giant Santa on the classroom door and lots of festive cheer in the classroom; including a Christmassy book corner full of festive stories.

We have been very busy practising our Christmas songs and this week we filmed them ready for Miss Hill to put together for all of our wonderful parents and carers.

We've also enjoyed learning to recognise numerals. We played hidden numbers on the whiteboard and we used number fans to find and show numbers. I wonder if they'll be any maths activities in Forest School later this week....

Forest School in Winter

We had some wild weather for our second visit to the Forest School. Wind, rain and even a bit of snow! The children were brilliant at remembering their warm clothes, hats, gloves and wellies. For our first activity, Stinky Pete had left us another letter. This time, all the numbers had been lost in the forest. We worked together to find them all and then sort them and count them. We worked out that 2 number 6's were missing. We had a final look around and spotted them hiding in the trees. Well done everyone!

For our second activity we worked in our groups to make a giant shape monster using natural objects. We decided as a team which shape we wanted for our shape monster's body.

Hopefully for our final forest school day on Monday, the weather will be slightly drier. Keep those fingers crossed!

Week 4

We've had another busy week in Seashells Class enjoying our new 'heroes topic, getting ready for Christmas, making shape monsters and measuring the weather. 

PE

The children have been impressing me so much with their skills in our outdoor PE lessons, firstly with hula hoops and then beanbags. This week we added some challenges. Can you throw the beanbag up and clap your hands before you catch it? This really tests your coordination. The children kept practising and lots of them succeeded. We also had to balance the bean bag on our head whilst standing on one leg and we even had a go at jogging with it on our heads too - we concentrated on keeping our heads really still.

The children are very good at working in pairs or groups too. We took turns to throw the bean bags to each other through a hoop - it was trickier than we imagined it would be. Remember practise makes perfect!

Read Write Inc update

The children are doing so well in RWI. They love their daily lessons with Miss Najib our PGCE student. We have learned all the set 1 sounds except for the diagraphs and  have been practising reading words daily with magnetic letters and green words cards. This week we also started to learn how to use our Fred fingers to write words on whiteboards. When we move to our new building, some of the children will move up to Ditty group where they will learn the diagraphs and read a short story in partners. This will take place in a brand new group room between the Seashell and Caterpillar classrooms.

Fire engine writing

This week we learned about fire engines. We watched a time for school clip about a visit from the fire service. Then we looked at a toy fire engine and talked about the different features. We drew a picture of a fire engine in our golden writing books and used Fred fingers to write words describing it.

Week 3

This week we had a delivery of a mysterious box. It contained some clothing and objects. We looked at each one and talked about what they might be used for. We decided that the box belonged to a firefighter. Inside there was also a letter from Ted Bear, (he used to come to Golden Assembly) asking for our help to find out more about firefighters so he can tell all of his Bear friends who are very curious. We discussed some questions to find out about firefighters then we talked about how we might find the answers including: asking a real life firefighter, looking in a book, searching on the internet and watching information videos. 

Later in the week we read an information book called 'Firefighters' and found out about some of the jobs that firefighters do.

We had fun role playing in our new fire station area. Some children made a fire engine outside and helped at lots of different emergencies including a flood, a bike crash and a house fire.

Week 2

This week the Seashells learned all about remembrance day. We watched an animation from cbeebies about a little rabbit who plays in the field where the poppies grow. We talked about how this day is important to remember lots of people who fought to keep us safe during the war. We made a special cut and stick poppy wreath that is now on our classroom door.

In maths we have been learning to compare amounts. We made a number track and then counted out the right amount of objects to match each number. We noticed that as we move forwards along the track the amount gets bigger - there are MORE objects.

On Friday we had to put the spots onto the Pudseys'. We rolled the dice, read the number and then counted out the spots. Afterwards we compared the amounts and then put them in order from smallest to largest.

Children in Need 2020

What a brilliant time the Seashells has raising money for Children in Need. There were lots of Pudsey activities on offer in class including; Pudsey colouring, Pudsey face collages, and Pudsey counting. We also had a disco and listened to the story Pudsey's Great Fundraiser. We listened to some songs from the BBC Children in Need choir too. In the afternoon we took part in a bikeathon in our yard. Everyone cheered, shook the pom-poms and twirled ribbons as each child rode twice around the yard on the bikes. Then we watched this video which shows us why Children in Need is so important and how the money raised helps lots of children all over the UK. Well done everyone!

Thank you for all your generous donations.

Week 1

Welcome back everyone. We hope you had a lovely half term break. This term is going to be super busy as we get ready to move to our brand new building as well as enjoy the festivities of a slightly different Christmas.

PE

We were lucky with the weather for our PE lesson and were able to go outside. We used a different piece of equipment - a hula hoop. We worked in pairs to practise lots of skills including:

• Jumping in the hoop with our feet together
• Rolling the hoop to each other
• throwing and catching the hoop
• Spinning the hoop
• Hula hooping

Fireworks 

On Thursday we talked all about fireworks and why we will have heard and seen lots of them over the last few days. We learned a little about the gunpowder plot and talked about what we usually do on Bonfire night including foods that we eat, places we might go, what we wear to be warm outside and things we see such as fireworks, sparklers and bonfires. We watched a video of a big fireworks display and then we described what we could see and hear. We also imagined we were at a real bonfire celebration and thought about what we might be able to smell or taste.

We did lots of different firework activities including:

• Firework colouring
• Chalk firework pictures outside
• Building bonfires in the construction corner
• Making number rockets in maths 
• Firework painting