Blue Room (R)

On Monday the 27th aliens are expected to visit the school. We have drawn maps for them, we have collected magnets for their spaceship and finally, they should visit us! The USS Ramsgate is ready for the arrival and the crew have asked NASA for an official alien protocol for the Earths first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Please dress your child up as an alien. The costume doesn't have to be out of this world; the alien could look suspiciously like a child, but with antenna, or the alien could come from the planet Ag and be completely wrapped in tin foil. There are an infinite amount of possibilities. We have been reading the book: Here come the aliens and if you would like any inspiration, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtTIRnvteHE

Can you follow the sequence

Non school uniform day raised £335.9 on Wednesday and Dalia raised £726 in total. Congratulations to Dalia for such an amazing idea and to everyone who took part.

Oracy week has been great so far. We have had two workshops, one from Naomi where we wrote and sang songs and did a lot of talking whilst moving our bodies and one from Mr. Gibbons based around oral storytelling, we listened to lots of traditional African stories and wrote our own stories which we told orally. We have also done show and tell every day. This has been a great chance for the children to talk about their lives, and for their piers to formulate and ask questions about the items which have been brought in. Topic has been based around racy oo, we have had discussions about the planet and space and shared our previous knowledge about the topic. The children knew an amazing amount, that the Earth spins, but we don't notice, that the moon reflects light and that there is gravity! We will carry on our Topic racy and show and tell every day. Please bring in an item for show and tell if you haven't already. We would like to talk about one item from each child during the week.

This week we had personal development week. The title of the week was 'It's good to be me' and we looked at how we are all different and that our differences make us unique! We re-read the colour monster and made our own unique colour monsters showing how are emotions, feelings and self are unique and that that makes us special! Ask your child what makes them unique.

In maths we looked at numbers 9 and 10. First we practised making the numbers on 10 frames, then we looked more deeply into 10, learning about number bonds to 10. We filled out our number bonds in 10 frames and part part whole models. Later in the week we saw how numbers 1 - 10 are represented, first with numicon and then with dominoes. We ordered our 1-10 numicon and dominoes on a number line. Ask your child what a number bond to 10 is (they should know 5+5=10 and 6+4=10). Ask them to show you on their fingers and see if they can make any other number bonds. 

We danced with Miss T, we snag with Miss Stevens. Green room practised singing the chocolate hymn they wrote with Mr. Jones (already double platinum in Belize) which blue room will learn soon, we started our new RWI groups which will become longer next week and we had a lot of FUN!

Welcome back. We hope you had a lovely break. It was lovely having all the children back today, we had our photos taken, we looked at numbers 9 and 10 on a 10s frame, and we spoke about diversity and why each of us are unique. Our topic this term is Space explorers which we will start next week in oracy week. Please take some Wow moment sheets and let us know of anything special your child does at home and remember to bring in your sounds book and love to learn book by the end of the week.