Marvellous Me...

Today the children brought their 'Marvellous Me' boxes into school. Many thanks to parents who helped to put the boxes together. They were absolutely beautiful and clearly lots of effort and time had been put into them. The children were all very proud of their boxes and enjoyed sharing the contents with the rest of the class. The activity was particularly useful in encouraging the children's speaking and listening skills in group situations.

Vehicles

Today Year 1 began making their vehicles. They have spent lots of time deciding on their vehicle and creating a design. The main criteria for their design was that it will transport Crispin from one side of the classroom to the other.

There are a huge variety of different vehicles being made including a aeroplane, hot air balloon, hovercraft and a double decker bus.

FS2 will be making their vehicles tomorrow and into the beginning of next week.

Reminder: Non-uniform day tomorrow and cake sale.

Autumn Walk

 Today Class 1 went on an Autumn walk around the village. We were hunting for signs of Autumn. We got out our binoculars to look at the differences that were happening to the trees. 

 We collected different leaves of many colours.

We enjoyed our walk very much and had lots of 'finds' to take back to school with us.

Life Skills!

 In preparation for the new FS2 children arriving we have a new table and chairs for the home corner. The year 1 children were keen to build it themselves and learnt a new and very important life skill, constructing IKEA furniture! As you can see, they followed the instructions carefully and successfully made the furniture!

Arts Week: Day 2,3 and 4!

 Tuesday: Otto's grandfather, who is a sculptor, came to visit all the way from Holland to show us his work. He also helped us make our own sculptures of ourselves.

 Wednesday: Judy Davies came to do some drama with us. It was all about 'The Rainbow Fish'.

 We made a ocean from blue material. Some sharks were chosen who had to swim under the material and find people.

We also had a go at using our observational skills to make sketches of the woodland animals in our classroom.

 We went out in the local area to sketch the local landscape. Looking carefully at what we could actually see.

 Thursday: Inspired by the latest work by David Hockney, we created paintings based upon the sketches that we did yesterday of Eastcombe.