This week Class 1B have started their Christmas fun! We have been exploring winter sensory activities, sparkly tuff trays and even beginning work on our Christmas cards! We have also each made a bauble to hang on our school Christmas tree in the main entrance. This week has also been Christmas dinner week, where we pulled some crackers and made our own placemats.
This week Class 5B have read the story of Hansel and Gretel. They made predictions about what would happen in the story and were quite surprised at how unkind the parents were.
When it was our turn to explore the Winter Wonderland in the garden we found a Gingerbread House with a witch inside. We had fun acting out the story and even pushed the witch into the oven!
Later we made our own gingerbread houses in the cookery room ready to design and decorate next week. We made salt dough gingerbread Christmas tree decorations too.
This week the children in 6B have been reading the story of Hansel and Gretel. They have used the zones of regulation language to talk about how the characters in the story feel and practiced their sentence writing to describe this. The children have followed instructions with lots of baking as well as their measuring skills. Thinking about the story, they have baked bread and gingerbread biscuits. They’ve been out in the garden, exploring the Christmas wonderland that staff have set up and have started to do lots of Christmas art, as well as think and talk about their own Christmas traditions.
This week class 3A have conducted lots of interesting investigations.
First we made our own bubble solutions and experimented with how many bubbles we could make inside a bubble.
Next we tested which type of water would make our gummy bears grow the biggest, we tested warm water, salt water and sugar water. We left our bears for 12 hours to grow and then we found out that the bears that were in warm water had grown the most. We also found a gummy bear escape scene in class, there was a trail of red gummy bears and jelly slime which led us to a gummy bear web. We had to use the tweezers to rescue the bears from the tangled web.
Then we carried out a cookie excavation! we used magnifying glasses to look closely at the cookies and think about what was inside them. We wrote our own cookie recipes then followed our recipes to bake our own chocolate chip cookies. They were very very tasty!
Next week we will begin our Christmas themed activities.
Class 4A have worked so hard this week and put a lot of effort and creativity into their work! At the start of the week they created their own rollercoasters, which would fit in well at any theme park. We put our taste buds to the test and created our own fizzy lifting drinks. Luckily we didn’t fly out of the classroom! We made some fantastic edible chocolate factories, some of them looked just like the one in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! We have also learned a lot about the journey of the cocoa bean, and we realised that there is a lot of work that goes into making the yummy treats we can buy at the shops!
You have all done a fantastic job this week, let’s continue the good work next week!
This week in 2A we read The Gingerbread Man. We answered lots of questions about the story and even made our own versions by changing characters and the setting. In maths we used the gingerbread men to play adding and taking away games. We also counted out jellies for the gingerbread man’s buttons. In RE we made lots of things to cheer up the gingerbread man, like houses to feel cosy and boats to get him across the river safely. We even decorated our own gingerbread men and gingerbread houses – Yum!
We looked at ice in science, trying to melt it in different ways such as pouring water on it, breathing on it or even just holding it. In art some of us used different sponges to paint a giant gingerbread man, while others practised different joining techniques such as sewing.
We have all behaved amazingly so had extra choose time, making the most of our café before it leaves us on Friday, ready for new Christmas areas next week. See you then.
This week class 5B retold the story of Pattan’s Pumpkin through role play and thought about what the characters would say. They followed instructions to make Indian sweets called Coconut Ladoo’s, we hope you like them!
We looked at google earth to find India again and compared the Western Ghat region with Northumberland. They both have mountains!
We also thought about how to keep ourselves clean and had a go at brushing our teeth with new toothbrushes.
On Monday we designed and then made our own Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired roller coasters. We even had our own virtual roller coaster ride!
On Tuesday we experimented with our own ‘Fizzy lifting drinks’ we made our drinks using sparkling water, edible glitter and lots of different fruit juices. The prune juice did not go down well!
On Wednesday we created our own edible chocolate factories, we thought very carefully about what each element of our factories represented… they also tasted delicious!
On Thursday we worked with class 4 and 5 to learn all about the journey of the cocoa bean and how the chocolate we buy from the shop gets to the shelves. It was very interesting and we enjoyed working with new friends.
On Friday we made our own ‘Big Breakfast’, we practiced our life skills and made beans on toast, scrambled egg and delicious breakfast pancakes. We placed our orders, prepared the surfaces hygienically and made our own breakfast.
What a busy week!
Have a lovely weekend 3A.
In Outdoor Learning we have being making our own pens out of sticks and making our own ink using fruits and spices. We used test tubes to mix the ink and fruit peelers to make our pens. We had great fun testing them out.
