Friday 7th February 2024
Children's Mental Health Week
In honor of Children's Mental Health Week we have been talking a lot about the different emotions we feel and how we show them. It has been so interesting to hear what makes each child sad, frustrated, angry, happy, excited and silly! We discussed how we deal with emotions like sadness and loneliness and what we can do to help ourselves and recognize what we need to help us.
One of the things we have done this week is listen to music to help our mental health! We have had so much fun listening to Meghan Trainor's 'Better When I'm Dancing' each morning before we start our lessons. It really helps set us up for the day, putting us in a positive mindset and allowing us to shake off the sleepy!
We spent a little bit of time today also thinking about who is in our superhero team. The people who are always there to support us, love us, and help us deal with any emotions we may feel.
Friday 24th January 2025
This week in Africa class, we have had the opportunity to listen to some parents talk about their jobs. We really enjoyed learning what it was like to be a neo-natal nurse yesterday and see all the tiny nappies and hats that would be used to keep premature babies warm.
We also celebrated National Handwriting Day this week and combined that with our poetry Thursdays. Poetry Thursday links really well with our Guided Reading sessions as we are learning about lots of different poetry techniques and styles from Rachel Rooney’s The Language of Cat. We had a lot of fun performing some of her poems this week to the class.
Friday 17th January 2025
We really enjoyed our music workshop this week, where we got to listen and sing along to music through the ages. We started with Elvis Presley in the 1950s and worked all the way up to George Ezra in the 2010s! The children had a great time singing and dancing along to lots of popular classics!
This afternoon in Computing, we experimented on Scratch as part of our programming module. Last week we focused on creating an algorithm and making our sprite move around the screen by following a set of instructions. This week, we combined that with creating our own sprite and we were able to play around with different backgrounds, so our game design became more advanced! We worked so well together, especially when we encountered technical difficulties!
Friday 10th January 2025
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.
The first week back has absolutely flown over! In PE, we started our Gymnastics topic and we practiced some partner balances. We practiced tensing our muscles in order to help us balance and for our body to become stronger - we call this muscle tension. It was fantastic seeing the children communicate with each other so clearly, and focusing on keeping each other safe.
In Art this week we looked at tints and shades. Using paint, we created a gradient where we took a colour and, by adding either black or white to it, were able to change the tint and shade. We learnt that when you make a colour darker, it is known as a shade. When you make a colour lighter it is known as a tint. The children did some fantastic pieces of work.