This week in Willow Class, we have been investigating which objects float and which objects sink. We predicted what would happen first and then tested them to see if we were correct. Next week we will be using this knowledge of materials to make boats. We are going to see how many marbles they can…
In Willow Class we have been using animals to help us count in 2’s. We have learnt the song ‘The animals went in two by two’. Next week we will be doing our daily count in 2s.
Willow Class have been very busy with their new topic, Noah’s Ark this term. So far we have made Rainbow promises, built a role play Ark, painted rainbows, learnt about colour mixing and counted animals in twos! The class also performed the song “The animals went in two buy two” with musical instruments (around the school…
This half term we have been doing gymnastics in PE. Mr Tyrrell has been helping us learn to jump, roll and move in many ways. We have also been linking it to our topic, Noah’s Ark. Can you guess what animals we are trying to be? \
The children in Willow Class have been making the most of the frosty weather this week. In Phonics we have been mark making in the ice! Firstly we went on a Letter hunt to see what letters we could form in the frost, then we challenged ourselves and write tricky words in the ice. Brrrrrrrrrilliant!
We have been working hard at becoming fantastic writers, our weekly finger gym is helping us develop our fine motor control. We have also been looking at ways of developing our Gross Motor skills through sweeping, brushing, painting and ribbon dancing in our handwriting sessions. This has helped us with our letter formation and Miss…
Willow Class had an exciting opportunity to ask questions to a very special character from a Story…. Noah! They have been looking at asking interesting questions to find out more about the character. We have been using the starters, Why? What? When? and How?
The Year 3 children have been learning about fractions and decimals. They have been on an amazing learning journey over the past week. This is the first time most of them have heard of tenths or decimals, but already they are confident at comparing fractions, converting tenths into decimals and ordering fractions and decimals by…
Cherry Class from Kenton Primary School and Class 2 from Kenn Primary School had a wonderful day together finding out more about this term’s art topic. In class we have been learning about portraits, using pencils and crayons to sketch carefully what we can see. We were lucky enough to be invited to Powderham castle…
This term in Willow Class we have been working hard at our writing. The finger gym helps us to build strength in fine motor activities, which will help with our writing. Here are some of the activities we have been doing below…