Once upon a time…
We have been looking at finding half of quantities and half of shapes.
We have been working hard on our fairy garden again this week. We wrote letters to some companies who sell items for fairy gardens and have received some replies along with some very generous donations of ornaments, decorations and fairies.
We spent some time setting up all the fabulous ornaments and fairies we have been donated today and are really pleased with how it is looking!
The children have come into school this week with such fantastic attitudes, ready to learn and working so hard! Big well done!
We have been doing Multi-skills in PE this week. Practising our balancing, kicking, throwing, running and jumping. It has been great fun!
We have been developing our skills using a spreadsheet program on Purplemash, 2 calculate. This week we practised inputting pictures of animals into the spreadsheet and had a go at making a zoo! We used the move and lock tools so the animals didn’t escape and eat each other!
What a brilliant start to the new term and to the week we have had!
We have been identifying and describing 2D and 3D shapes and using our shape knowledge to identify which buildings would stand and which would fall.
We have been practising logging on to the computers and on to Purplemash!
We explored a basic spreadsheet program and practised inputting numbers, words and images into the cells.
We then wrote some number sentences and the computer worked out the answers!
We have had a great start to our Science week!
We had lots of fun thinking about what a stick could be. We were all really imaginative and came up with lots of great ideas about what a stick could be!
We created our own class book based on the story Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis.
Read this book made on StoryJumper
We completed lots of fun Red Nose Day activities!
We have had a very busy start to the week, measuring and weighing in Maths and working on our outdoor garden project!
The children really enjoyed working in pairs to create and decorate the body of a vehicle. They looked at pictures of dumper trucks, ambulances, police cars, prams and trolleys to support their designs. They considered how to join boxes and what logos and features they needed to add.
In the last week of term we will be building our own vehicles, so please start collecting cardboard boxes to use as the body for your vehicles.
We are so proud of how you have all settled back to school this week! You are all superstars and have made us really proud of your attitudes and enthusiasm!
Big well done, keep it up!!
We loved getting outside for our Maths this week!
Some of the children may have come home this week and told you or shown you about the ‘tapping’ we have been doing.
I thought I would provide you with some more information about this.
So what exactly is this tapping all about?
“Emotional Freedom Technique” (or EFT) is a clinically proven form of “emotional acupuncture without needles”. Used by therapists, psychologists and millions worldwide to ease emotional distress and clear negative emotions, beliefs, and memories, it’s setting a new tone for how we manage stress in the modern world.
EFT works by tapping a series of acupressure points on the face and upper body with two fingers. It can be done in a quiet space to calm down or done whilst voicing an issue. This helps to “short-circuit” the fight or flight (stress) response and re-wire our brain to think more clearly about the problem.
Sounds crazy, but science has proven it works! EFT can play a major part in helping kids release fear, anxiety, trauma, and doubt in a matter of minutes.
EFT often produces results a lot more quickly with children, as they don’t have the same amount of emotional baggage as adults do. They’re not caught up in the “how’s” and “why’s”, they just want to feel better.
Here is a video of us doing it in school.
What a super first day back in school. All the children were wonderful and came back with so much positivity and enthusiasm! Well done!
We shared these stories today and talked lots about what we can do when we have worries.