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Nursery Weekly Blog WB 27/2/2023
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 1:14pm
This week in Nursery we started our learning about our new topic 'Why things happen!'. We have been learning about things that float and sink and things that are heavy and light.
The children have loved this weeks book - Who sank the boat? - about a group of animal friends who go for a sail in a boat. We discovered that it was not one of the large animals who sank the boat but a tiny mouse who jumped on board.We made a boat outside and used masks to tell the story
The children have also started to explore a new area in Nursery where they can do lots of hands on Maths learning with counting objects,shapes and patterns.
Next week we will be doing lots of learning about Night and Day.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 7:17am
Class 11 have had a fantastic week reading the book, titled the Wind in the Willows.
The children have hot- seated Mr Toad, asked questions and demonstrated empathy.
In Topic we have been exploring France and types of holiday that can be taken there. The children have created promotional holiday posters.
What a fantastic week we have had.
Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 3:49pm
This week we have been looking at the book Minibeast, Follow the trail.
The children have been creating their own minibeast book and mark making using different materials. We have looked at the lifecycle of a butterfly and created music for the butterfly to dance to.
The children have loved getting messy with all the minibeasts!
Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 2:04pm
Class 14 have had a fantastic curriculum week, which has been centered about the book 'The Day War Came'. Linked to our refugee topic, the children have written some brilliant diary entries from the point of view as the main character in the book. The have used a range of drama techniques, such as freeze framing, to bring the story to life. Becuase the book is about not having a chair, Class 14 were challenged to bring in items from home to decorate their classroom chair to highlight what is important to them. We invited Mrs Glynn to come and view our 'Chair Art Gallery'. As well as this, the children have created some creative art work showing how the emotions of a refugee child may change over time.
What a fantastic week we have had.
Reception Blog - Week Beginning 20.02.23 - Curriculum Week
Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 12:18pm
This week Reception had a special visitor from the story book 'The Tiger who came to Tea'. He left his footprints in our class and made himself at home in our home corner!
To follow the theme for the love of writing, the children in Reception worked hard, re-telling the story using their super phonics knowledge. We wrote inviations for a special tea party which took place on Friday. The children made cheese and jam and sandwiches and enjoyed having snacks to end the curriculum week.
In our maths learning we explored 3D shapes discussing the names of the shapes and enjoyed a shape hunt in our classroom. We also looked at repeating patterns and had a go at creating our own pattern with movements, thinking about what comes next!
In our afternoon learning we talked about homes from the past, discussing what a home in 60's looked like. The children got creative and made their own home and labelled.
24.2.23 - Curriculum week learning - Room on the broom
Date: 23rd Feb 2023 @ 4:51pm
The children have had a fabulous time this week. All their learning has been based around the story 'Room on the broom'.
The children came into class on Monday to find a massive, dirty slimy swamp with eyes looking at them.
They had to talk about they thought was in the swamp.
They recalled the story that they knew about some animals that fell into a swamp - The room on the broom.
They then discussed what the creatures in the swamp might say and enjoyed acting out the story in different ways.
The children created their own witches or wizards, cauldrons and spells.
During music, they also created sounds to match the characters in the story.
Date: 23rd Feb 2023 @ 1:57pm
This week is Curriculum Week and Class 11 are basing all their learning on a story titled "A River- by Marc Martin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRcKPpqeKx4
The children have made a setting on the river in a box, and added a vocabulary in word art. The children have also written about the water cycle and rivers. The photgraphs are just some of the super work Class 11 have produced.
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Nursery Weekly Blog WB 20.2.2023
Date: 23rd Feb 2023 @ 1:03pm
This week has been our curriculum week at Greenhill and in Nursery we have been inspired by the book Elmer.
The children arrived on Monday to find that Nursery had been transformed into a jungle - they were amazed at the trees and noises! They loved hearing about Elmers adventures and how he loved being different - eventually! All the children have told Elmer why they are special and unique and what they are really good at doing in Nursery and at home.
We have done lots of fantastic learning about colours - as Elmer was a colourful patchwork elephant and not elephant colour at all! All the children have made a collage to add to our class Elmer and have mixed colours using coloured water. We even made an elephant sized elephant outside!
Next week we start our new topic of 'Why things happen!' by looking at floating and sinking
Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 9:25pm
This week is Curriculum Week and Class 9 are basing all their learning on a rainforest story called Shaman's Apprentice. The children have made a rainforest in a box, added a vocabulary book with unknown or interesting words. Then they made salt dough rainforest animals and painted them and then added these to their box. The children have also written some AMAZING setting descriptions and used different media to create rainforest pictures. The photgraphs are just some of the super work Class 9 have produced.
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:49pm
The children in LB2 have been adding and subtracting this week in maths .
The children partitioned the numbers and made the amounts.
They have used dienes and numicon to do their calculations.
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:47pm
This week in Base 1 we have been looking at flowers and exploring the differetn parts. The children have enjoyed taking plants appart, creating a flower with materials and using parts of their body to create flowers with paint.
Another Exciting week in Class 3
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 8:19am
This week Class 3 have had so much fun...
In topic we have been exploring the United Kingdom, looking at maps and identifying the different landmarks around Great Britain.
In Science we have been learning all about Plants. The children had so much fun using their continuous provision area to make models of trees.
In PSHE the children have been learning all about road safety and how to cross the road correctly. We had so much fun practicing this in class.
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 6:29pm
We have started our India topic this week and what a fantastic afternoon we had! We began by boarding a virtual plane and setting off to India. When we arrived we decided to find out lots of information about our new topic. We enjoyed using the iPads to find out fascinating facts, creating our own images of Indian landmarks on the iPads and creating our own flags, mendi and rangoli patterns.
At the end of our lesson we then enjoyed taking part in some Bollywood dancing and showing off our amazing dance moves!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 4:49pm
Class 9 were treated to some new books again. A few weeks ago our wonderful student teacher bought Harry Potter books for our book loving children and this week we treated them to Percy Jackson books. They cannot wait to get stuck into these.
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 2:54pm
After all the fun of our France Day, we have got stuck into our new topic. We have been looking at the regions of France and what the country is famous for.
In Literacy this week we have been writing all about the life cycle of a butterfly or a frog. Did you know that a butterfly tastes with its feet and frogs have super stretchy tongues to eat its prey?
It's been all about division this week with Year 5 working on some super challenging problems.
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 16.1.2023
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 12:59pm
This week in Nursery we have been carrying on our learning about 'What I would like to be when I grow up'. This week we have been thinking about what it would be like to be a farmer. We have used the book Old MacDonald had a farm to look at the type of animals we would find on a farm and have made masks so that we could wear them while we were singing the rhyme!
During the week we have done some animal movements and created our own farm on the wallpaper. We have made tractors in the making area and used the big tractor to act out driving in the fields. We have also been shopping to think about what crops are grown on farms.
By the end of the week we knew lots of things that a farmer does every day so we could decide if that is what we would like to do when we are older!
Next week we will be learning about Chinese New Year and thinking about what an author does - We will even be having a visit from an author on Wednesday!
Date: 15th Jan 2023 @ 7:17pm
In Literacy, the children watched videos and looked at photos of 'Shalimar gardens in Lahore in Pakistan.
They described what they saw in the garden.
They looked at Concept in print words and selected the words they needed to describe the gardens.
They then wrote sentences about the features of the gardens.
In Maths, the children have been adding and subtracting using numbers up to 10, 20 and 50.
Reception Blog - Week Beginning 09.01.22
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 5:10pm
This week in Reception the children have been learning about the story 'Handa's Hen'. The children had great fun taking part in creating a story whoosh of the story, acting out the different scenes. The children worked hard in creating a story map in small groups, drawing the scenes from the story, in order and then labelling them using our phonics knowledge.
In our Maths learning we have been looking at comparing numbers to 5. We explored looking at dominos talking about which side had more spots and which side had less. We looked at sharing out equal amounts making sure the teddy bears had the same amount of food.
In the afternoon the children had great fun learning all about Africa. We talked about all of the different animals you would see in Africa and discussed what clothes and accessories you would need for the lovely weather. The children got creative and made colourful, traditional patterned bracelets. Outdoors the children had fun creating a jeep safari, thinking about all of the animals and sounds they would hear in sunny Africa.
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 5:00pm
This week, class 3 have been looking at our topic of plants, as part of our science learning. The children had so much fun dissecting and labelling a tulip with the correct parts.
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 1:01pm
Wow what a week.
We have started our topic all out France. We carried out our 'Wow Starter,' which involved carrying out our own research. We found out some amazing facts about France including France is the most visited country in the world. The children got to taste some French foods including brie and coissants.
In English we have been writing alternative endings to the book Madeline.
Maths has involved some very tricky multiplications. Can you solve this question 47 x 32?
Thank you for your continued support
The Year 5 Team.
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 9.1.2023
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 12:55pm
We have had a really exciting week in Nursery this week to start our learning about our new topic - 'What I want to be when I grow up!'. On Monday all of Nursery left Greenhill Airport on flight 9876 to Australia. The Greenhill Airways flight lifted off with its pilot - Pilot Savage - in the cockpit. Before the passengers were allowed to board they had to present their passport to the controller and collect their boarding passes. When they got onto the plane the cabin crew checked their passes before they could take their seats and enjoy the flight.
The children loved experiencing what a flight felt like - complete with refreshments on board!!
After our flight we have spent the week learning about what it would be like to be a pilot with some help with our book this week - 'I want to be a pilot'.
It would be fantastic if you could talk to your child about this weeks learning and tell us about what they say on SeeSaw!
Date: 11th Jan 2023 @ 10:40am
Class 9 are studying The Romans for topic and this week we had a wow afternoon to start our learning in a fun and creative way. The children loved making mosaics, a leafy wreath for their head, they made a Powerpoint finding lots of facts using given websites and finally they tasted some of the foods Romans would have eaten like figs, olives and dates. We got a mixed reaction to the food tasting as some children loved them and others thought they were revolting! We had an AMAZING afternoon.
Class blog- Week ending- 05.01.2023
Date: 8th Jan 2023 @ 3:44pm
This week the children have returned from their Christmas break and have been revising addition and subtraction, with a focus on place value. We started with column addition and subtraction and then moved on to two step problems.
In English the children have looked at the book titled "Madeline" and have written Character description. They have been developing their writing skills by including adjectives, adverbs and imagery among other features to bring the text to life.
Year 5 have returned back to school, focused and determined to make 2023 a FANTASTIC YEAR!
Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 3:07pm
Happy New Year
The children in LB2 came back to school ready and eager to learn.
During Literacy, the children talked about what they did and where they went during the Christmas holidays. They then looked at Inprint words to add to their picture. They then wrote about what they had done.
The children had had a wonderful Christmas break from school and had enjoyed
" going on holiday with my family", "going to winter wonderland", " doing the climbing on the wall", " going to my family house".
We are all looking forward to learning this term.
Reception Blog - Week Beginning 03.01.23
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 8:58pm
Reception have been super busy on their first week back learning all about our new season, Winter! In literacy the children read the story 'One Snowy Night'. We retold the story by drawing a story map and worked hard by describing the main character; Percy's personality in sentences using our phonics skills.
In our maths learning we have started the topic Alive in 5, focusing on the numbers 0-5. We enjoyed finding less than one number, using the rhyme '5 current buns in a bakers shop'. We also worked on different ways of showing the numbers 0-5 by playing a comparing game, looking at which child got the most bean bags in the Hula hoop. We also looked at different ways to write these numbers by looking at the numerals and recording them in a tally.
In the afternoon we learnt more about the season winter, looking at all of the difference changes in the weather and the different clothes you would need to keep warm. The children enjoyed making snowflakes and drinking, warm hot chocolate after taking part in a winter walk.
