Dinosaurs

Hello Everyone,

Well we've almost made it to the last week !  This week we have started learning about dinosaurs - or should I say Mrs Young, Mrs Ball and Miss Cannell have started learning about dinosaurs because Grasshopper Class appear to be experts on dinosaurs !

We did a mind map of everything we knew about dinosaurs on Wednesday and to be honest there isn't much that is left to learn !  Lennon knew more than some of the non fiction books !  We have made split pin dinosaurs and used the paint palettes to paint some great dinosaur pictures.  We have also read lots of dinosaur stories and next week we will have a go at writing our own.  All the school reading books have been collected in now for the Summer holidays - but remember to keep reading.  Gt Yarmouth library has a great selection of books - why not pop along?

Indianna and her split pin stegosaurus

Jordan worked carefully on his dinosaur

Oniaka painted her dinosaur picture carefully

Wow Ebony - has Mrs Ball helped you?

In maths we have been trying to recognise and write numbers to 30 ready for Year 1 and we have been thinking about size - length and  height.  We have done lots of measuring with the dinosaurs.

On Tuesday we had a fantastic trip to the Hippodrome Circus - the children really enjoyed watching all the acts.  Mrs Young thought some of the circus performers were crazy - especially the motorbike riders.  She couldn't watch them and Reece had to tell her when they had finished !  The clown Johnny was very funny too and we all loved the Water Spectacular at the end.

Waiting for the show to begin

This man was funny !

Watch out Mrs Balls !

We loved it when the Ringmaster got stranded !

On Thursday we had a fantastic Sports Day.  All the children were really good sports and really enjoyed racing against each other.  Even the mums, dads and toddlers joined in !  At the end of the morning we were all exhausted but it was really good fun.  Have a look at some of our photos.

Oniaka found a new way to do the hoop race !

 

Diggory is going home with Raphael this week because he is trying hard with his writing.  Well done Raphael - have fun!

This will be the last blog for this year.  Thank you for logging on each week.


Well,  three more days to go at school so see you next week!

Grasshopper Class

The Circus

Hello everyone,

This week we have been learning about the circus.  We have found out about the Hippodrome in Gt Yarmouth where our circus takes place - we found out that it has been there for a very long time.  We also found out that they used to have animals like lions, tigers, monkeys and elephants in the circus but now our circus only has human performers.

We have been learning about how to find missing numbers in maths.  We had to solve a problem for the Ringmaster who had made a dreadful mess of the seating plan for his circus.  We had to use the clues to work out where the missing seats were.  We then had a go at doing this on our own circus ring.

We have made a giant big top from collage materials and it looks fantastic - it's all ready for our circus performance on Friday.  We also painted some fantastic clowns.

Jessica-May made her own big top

 

 

Rosanna and her fabulous clown

 

Taloola and her fantastic clown

On Wednesday we had a letter from the Ringmaster asking us to think up new acts for the circus show.  We went outside with Miss Cannell and practised lots of different acts - we used stilts, we juggled, we danced and we even did some balancing and acrobatics !  On Friday we put on a show for Mrs Johnson and Mrs Ball and they are going to ring the Ringmaster with some new ideas.

Jordan practises his balancing

Chase is good on the stilts

Reece is on the balance beam

Rosanna and Courtney practise their juggling

Oniaka does a bit of hoop spinning

I think Chloe and Abigail would make good tight rope walkers

Next Tuesday we are all going to the circus at the Hippodrome - it will be very exciting!  Also on Thursday we have sports day so it will be a busy week.

This week Diggory is going home with Rosanna because she has tried very hard with her writing all week.  Have fun!

That's all for now.

Grasshopper Class

Pirates 2 !

Ahoy there!

We've had another jolly week learning about pirates and the sea.  This week we had another message in a bottle from Captain Jack Black.  Mrs Ball went to the beach to get it and guess what?  She came back with some real treasure for us!  She also came back with a pirate hat, armbands and a cornetto !! I don't think we'll send her down there any more - she has too much fun ! 

I think Mrs Ball makes a good pirate !

 

Mrs Young reads the message and ....

.......finds our treasure !



 

Anyway we had to share our treasure out equally between our pirate teddies.  We had to make sure they had exactly the same amount each or it wouldn't be fair.  We have been sharing different amounts all week and on Thursday we even shared a playdough cake !

Jessica-May shares her pirate coins

Chase shares his treasure

 

Jona shares her treasure

We have been thinking about writing stories this week and we decided we should write our own pirate story.  We took our time and thought of a really exciting beginning, middle and end for our story.  Lots of the children have then been writing their own exciting stories on the writing table - well done !

We have been thinking about floating and sinking too and we all made our own rafts - we then tested them out in the water.  Some of them floated better than others !

Taloola used her own ideas

All busy raft building

Oniaka made a fabulous raft !

 

Courtney and Chloe have a raft race

 

On Tuesday we had our Transition Day where we all found out what class we would be in in September in Year 1.  The new classes are:

Beetles - Mrs Young (am) and Mrs Goddard (pm)
Spiders - Mrs Balls
Ladybirds - Mrs Doggett (formerly Miss Brind!)
Caterpillars - Miss Smith

All the children are with some of their friends and we all had a lovely time getting to know each other and doing lots of fun activities.

We have also made some great pirate faces using paper plates.

Sophie and her pirate

Jamie-Lea and her pirate

On Friday we went to the Summer Extravaganza at the Brittannia Pier - it was very exciting with lots of singing and dancing and we even got to go on a coach.  Some of our children from Years 1 and 2 were in the show - how brave !

This week Diggory is going home with Courtney because she has made such great progress with her phonics.  Well done Courtney!

That's all for now.

Grasshopper Class