Friday, 8 June 2018

The Train Ride

The children have come back from the holidays eager to learn and to share what they did.
We have read the story of 'The Train Ride' and all the children have done a piece of writing. 'We learned about trains.' Stephan. 'We read 'The Train Ride.' They said 'That's what I see' Sam. 'The train was going on the tracks and they saw some animals and they saw some sheep' Jack. 'They saw a tractor in the story.' Orlando.
We have had visitors this week to visit our class. They are going to be starting Reception in September.
Our home learning this week is to make something out of junk modelling. Please bring a plastic bottle in for our Art activity next week.

Friday, 25 May 2018

May King and Queen

This week we have been learning about weight for Maths. We looked at different objects and used the language of heavier and lighter to compare them. We found out that even though things are big they are not necessarily heavy. We learned how to use the weighing scales and we talked about what happens when they balance. We estimated how many little bears would weigh the same as a big bear.
In our computing lesson we learned about how to use the lap top and we will all be taking a turn practising using the touch pad.
At the end of the week we had our May King and Queen celebration. Jasmine and Jimmy were amazing as the May King and Queen. All the children were fantastic doing the dance and we all enjoyed watching the other classes dance.
We wish you all a happy and restful half term.

Friday, 18 May 2018

Willow sharing assembly

The Assembly this morning went so well. The children said their lines beautifully and sang so well. I'm sure all the parents must have been very proud!
We have been learning about sharing this week. All the children had a go at solving problems. They were asked to share four sandwiches between three teddies. We had lots of ideas including give the last sandwich away, and some children were able to work out the last sandwich could be cut into three. We introduced the language of half and third.
We are continuing to practise our dance and are all looking forward to dancing at the May King and Queen celebration next week.
Our home learning this week is to design a poster for our Summer Sizzler event. I'm looking forward to seeing some interesting pictures.

Friday, 11 May 2018

Monet

This week we have been learning about the artist Monet. The children remembered that he lived in France a long time ago and he was a famous artist.
We looked at some of Monet's paintings and we focused on the painting of waterlilies. All the children have painted their own interpretation of Monet's 'Waterlilies' onto canvas using acrylic paint. We will be displaying these on open evening on the 9th July.
In Maths we have been learning about time. We learned to sequence our day and talk about what time we do things in the day. We looked at clocks and learned about the hands on the clock, learning language such as minutes, hours and o'clock. We talked about what we could do in one minute and the children explored this. Perhaps you could find out at home the different things that you can do in one minute.
We have been practising our May dance this week. The children are doing really well skipping with their partner to the music and following the instructions. We are hoping for a sunny day on Friday the 25th of May for our May Day celebrations.
We have had a lovely week this week having the parents in to work shadow. Thank you to the parents who came in to shadow their child. We hope you have learned more about what learning in the Reception Class looks like.
Our Home learning this week is to find out about trains and record what you have discovered. Perhaps you could draw a picture and label it or write some facts into sentences.

Friday, 4 May 2018

Ducklings swim!

We have continued to enjoy our ducklings. They have grown very quickly and on Tuesday we watched them swim in the paddling pool. What fun! On Thursday they went back to the farm and we all wished them a happy life.
This week we read the story of 'The Ugly Duckling' and we all wrote about it. Some children were able to begin to retell the story in their own words. Some children also wrote their own lovely books about The ugly Duckling too.
In Maths we learned about capacity. We used language such as full, half full and empty. We estimated how many scoops of water would be needed to fill up a jug. We also did some problem solving. Would a wide jug hold more than a tall bottle? Perhaps you could do some cooking with your children and measure amounts in a measuring jug?
We had some lovely home learning from the children to share about life cycles. This week's home learning is to share the technology that you use at home and what you have learned to do on it. We hope you enjoy your Bank Holiday Monday!

Friday, 27 April 2018

Ducklings!

We have had a very exciting week this week. We had some eggs delivered to our school and when the eggs hatched out we had five beautiful, fluffy ducklings. The children had a chance to observe the eggs cracking and next week when the ducklings are stronger we are going to watch them swim in a paddling pool and handle them.
We have learned about what a life cycle is and we have learned more about the life-cycle of both a frog and a duck as we also have tadpoles in our classroom. We all made a frog life-cycle bracelet and we all made paintings of ducks and ducklings. Many of the children also wrote lovely books about ducks.We have made a lovely display in the classroom which we hope everyone will come and have a look at at open evening in July.
We have continued our learning in Maths on 3D shape and the children are getting much better at naming and describing them. Please do carry on practising at home.
Our Home Learning this week is to research a life-cycle, draw and label it.

Friday, 20 April 2018

Redbourn Primary School

Welcome back to a new term and a new school. We are now called Redbourn Primary School and we have a new Head Teacher called Mrs Hinchliffe.
The children have come back happy and eager to learn. They were excited to talk with their friends and teachers about what they did in the holidays and then they all wrote about it. We are very pleased with the quality of the writing that the children produced.
Mrs Hinchliffe came and read a story to the children and they all enjoyed getting to know her better.
On Friday afternoon we had the grand opening of the school. We had an MP who came and gave a speech and planted a tree and then the youngest and the oldest child in the school opened a ribbon to declare the school open. What a lovely event!
Our home learning this weekend is to send in a picture of your sporting hero and have a go at writing about them on the speech bubble.

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Goodbye Mrs Byrne

This week was Mrs Byrne's last week as she is retiring. We had a party on Tuesday and Mr Marvel came to entertain us. He was very funny and we all enjoyed it including the teachers. We all had a piece of cake in the afternoon.
We had a very special assembly on Thursday and we sang two songs for Mrs Byrne. We sang the song 'Sing' as a whole school and it was absolutely wonderful. Mr Byrne came in as well to wish Mrs Byrne a happy retirement.
We will miss Mrs Byrne, but we are also excited to come back after Easter to a new Head Teacher and a new school.
We all made our own Easter basket and the Easter bunny came and left us all some Easter eggs. Happy Easter!
Our Home Learning is to complete the FORIS Easter challenge. We are looking forward to seeing some interesting ideas with a potato.

Friday, 23 March 2018

Easter!

This week we watched the Year 1 production of 'Eddie the penguin' . We really enjoyed the singing and the acting and the costumes were amazing. It also taught us a very important message about looking after our world.
We have been learning about Easter. For Literacy we read about the story of Easter. All the children had a go at writing sentences about what happened in the story. Some children also wrote their own books. We had some amazing writing and Mrs Byrne and Mrs Burgess (our RE subject leader) really enjoyed reading them.
We had a very enjoyable time for Sports Relief. We did some circuits to the BeeGees 'Staying Alive.' Mrs McCormick came and lead a 70's disco dance routine at the end which we all really enjoyed.
We have not sent home learning home this week. There will be an Easter challenge to complete over the holidays. 

Friday, 16 March 2018

Science week

We had a fantastic week for science week and we learned so much. We had a bubbles work shop on Tuesday and we explored what happens when we blow bubbles. We found out that we had to blow gently to make the bubbles come out. We explored different resources to find out which ones made the best bubbles. We found out that Lego didn't make bubbles because there are no holes in it.
On Wednesday Alice' parents came in to show us how science is linked with music. We explored different sounds through electricity. We found out that we have electricity in our fingers and we explored how we can make long and short sounds and loud and soft sounds.
We explored different materials and talked about whether they were natural or man made. We did an experiment to find out which materials are water proof. Some children had a go at making bird houses for a bird using modelling materials. We thought about how we could make it waterproof and how we could make it cosy for the birds inside. We chose different resources to try and to test.
On Wednesday afternoon we went to Woodlands. We made potions in the muddy kitchen and we had a go at making bird's nests out of found natural materials. Some of the nests were very creative.
In the mornings, we made a collage out of different materials and described how they felt. Each group tested sugar, salt and sand to find out what happened to them. We realised that salt and sugar dissolve and that sand didn't. The children noticed that the sand sank to the bottom and some children made links to the seaside.
Our printer has not worked this week so we are unable to put stickers in the home learning books. Our home learning this weekend is to look for 3D shapes, name and describe them and then record your findings.

Friday, 9 March 2018

Animals

On Monday we all walked to St Luke's school to see their animals. 'My favourite animal was the hedgehog.' Sam. 'The dog had a badge. She had the same pictures as my sister's dog.' Ola. 'We saw a lizard.' Joe. 'We could hold the animals.' Isaac. 'I liked the chameleon because there was lots of nice patterns and colours.'Nia. 'I liked it when the chameleon was green.' Sophia. 'I liked the bearded dragon because it had a beard.' Theo. 'I liked the bird when it balanced on my finger.' Jimmy.
When we got back to school we talked about camouflage. 'When army have suits on and it matches to the grass and that means camouflage.' Jude. Some children made some pictures of animals and made a pattern behind to camouflage it. 'I made a chameleon' Teddy.
We have been learning about subtraction this week. We practised by choosing two numbers and then choosing the biggest number. We then counted out the correct number of objects and took the smaller number away. We also used 10's frames to work out the answers.
We wore our Book Day hats to our celebration assembly in the afternoon, as we had a snow day last week and we weren't able to show them to the rest of the school.
Our home learning this week is to draw a picture and write about things that we do to keep healthy.

Saturday, 24 February 2018

Chinese New Year

The children have come back from half term happy and excited to learn. This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. Many of the children were able to share their knowledge from the research and work they did for their home learning.
We read the story of the animals race and then we found out which year we were born in. This year is the year of the dog. We all did some careful cutting to make Chinese lanterns and explored how to use chopsticks in the noodles.
Some children did some lovely pictures of Chinese dragons and made Dragons out of junk modelling and cutting and sticking. We have had a very enjoyable week.
Next week is Book week. Our Author of the week is Julia Donaldson and we will be focussing on two of her books. We would like the children to bring in their favourite book in the week and a cushion on Friday for our whole school read. We are looking forward to an enjoyable week.

Friday, 2 February 2018

Number Day!

Today it was the NSPCC number day. We all came in dressed in a number and brought some money for charity. 'We bringed in money and we used it for charity.' Isaac. 'We paid for our snack.' Maddison. 'We counted the numbers.' Ola
We read the story of the Rainbow fish and we wrote a sentence. 'The Rainbow fish was sharing and caring at the end.' Jimmy. In our computing lesson we learned how to use the 2 create a super story programme to make pictures and write sentences. Some of the children had a go at writing a book. Nia wrote the Rainbow Fish story in he own words.
Tonight we are all looking forward to the school disco!
Next week we are learning about money. The home learning is to learn about money by paying for things and perhaps playing shops together.

Friday, 26 January 2018

Addition!

This week we have been learning to find the total of two groups of objects by counting all of them. We learned about the sign + for adding and we had a go at writing our own number sentences. We used different manipulatives to find a total such as objects, beads and number lines.
For computing we looked at the RM starting graph programme. We looked at the results of our favourite colours from last week and we inputted this data into the programme. We then got our own class graph. Lots of children had a go at finding their own data on the class such as eye colour, hair colour and favourite fruit and then making their graph on the computer.
We found out about rainbows and how they are formed and we learned the song 'I can sing a Rainbow'. We used instruments to make the sound of the rain. For science we did an experiment with skittles. When we added water we saw beautiful rainbow colours on the plate.
For home learning this week we would like as many of you as possible to complete the Big Bird Watch for the RSPB. It will be interesting to find out which birds you have in your gardens.

Friday, 19 January 2018

Red!

This week we have starting thinking about our topic Colours of the World. Our class focussed on the colour red.
We did some Maths with the Smarties. 'We put the Smarties in the right place. We put them with the right colours.' Isaac. 'We put them in the same colour group.' Matthew. 'We made a chart. 'We counted the numbers and I noticed that brown had the most and purple had the least.' Sam.
We had a vase of red roses in our class room. 'We put some sticky tape down there and we made our own rose.' Stephan. We made observational paintings of roses. 'We painted the roses' Joe.
We read the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and we all wrote little books. 'We hung the Little Red Riding Hood books on the wall.' Jasmine.'. When we added white to red 'it made it lighter, it went pink.' Jimmy.
Our home learning for this week is to have a go at making your own chart at home. Maybe you could ask your family what their favourite colour is?

Friday, 12 January 2018

Maths is all around

We have been exploring our new Maths shed outside. 'There was some number spoons.' Matthew. 'They got numbers on them.' Alice. 'We learn about numbers with the number spoons.' Iris. 'We counted them and put them in order.' Jack. 'We had to find small things and big things. There are numbers.' Jimmy. 'We picked up objects on the spoons. We counted them.' Isaac. 'There was some shapes in there and you can count with them and play snap with them.' Maddison. 'There were some numbers that we could count. There were 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 blocks. We counted them.' Orlando. 'There was a clock in there.' Ola.
We read the story of the Gingerbread Man. 'The Gingerbread jumped out of the oven and ran away.' Leila. We all did some writing. 'We put writing in the speech bubbles.' Sam. We had a picture of a fox. Benji wrote 'I want to eat you.'
We all made models with the Sticklebricks and used the Talking Postcards to record what we had made. 'I made a house for the Gingerbread Man.' Harry.
Next week we are starting our topic of Colours of the World by having a week on colour. Our Home Learning is to bring something to school that is red.

Friday, 5 January 2018

Welcome back

It was lovely to see all the children after the break. They have come back to school full of enthusiasm to learn and with so much to say about their holidays.
All the children had a go at writing about their holidays and we were very pleased with the progress they have all made with their writing.
Our topic for this term is 'Colours of the World'. Please look out for the parent letter and topic web in your e-mails. We are looking forward to an exciting term of learning.

Friday, 15 December 2017

Whoops a Daisy Angel!

We were very excited over the weekend as we were able to play in a lovely thick fall of snow. We all had an extra day in the snow on Monday as the school was closed.
We put on our performance of whoops-a-Daisy Angel through the week and I think everyone would agree that the children did an amazing job of singing and acting. Thank you also to the parents for the wonderful costumes.
On Wednesday we had our whole school Christmas dinner which was great fun and really delicious. We all made a Christmas hat to wear while we were eating it.
On Friday it was Christmas jumper day. Everyone managed to find a different jumper or outfit to wear and we have all done something to support children who are less fortunate than ours.
Please look at the photos on our website of the children dressed up.

Friday, 8 December 2017

Getting Ready for Christmas

We have continued to practise hard for our Christmas Nativity play. Om Monday we will do the dress rehearsal and put on our play for the community.
We had an wonderful trip to the church. Thank you to all the parents who gave up their time to help us. The children have learned a lot about the story of Christmas and we enjoyed singing Away in a Manger with the Reverend Will.
We have been thinking about our topic for next term which will be 'Colours of the world'. The children had some great ideas including finding out about rainbows and light and dark. We will focus on the colour red for one of the weeks next term. If the children have any ideas for this week it would be great to share them.
Our Home Learning for this week is to design a sleigh for Father Christmas. You could use Lego or Duplo or junk modelling or draw a picture or paint. I am looking forward to see all your creations!

Friday, 1 December 2017

Christmas Tree!

It was great to see so many comments on the blog. We all read them together which was fun. It was lovely to hear so many happy comments.
This week we have begun to practise for our play. The children are doing so well singing the songs and they are enjoying singing and dancing to the music during Learning Through Play.
Today is the 1 December. We all put a decoration on the Christmas tree. We have turned our Role Play into a Christmas Home Corner and some of the children helped to decorate it. We have our own class Christmas tree.

The Train Ride

The children have come back from the holidays eager to learn and to share what they did. We have read the story of 'The Train Ride'...