Look at our latest sketching art work. Aren’t they brilliant! Our listening skills are improving so much and it’s having such a positive impact on following instructions and being able to draw so well. They’re on our classroom door so be sure to take a look at parents evening next week on Wednesday and Thursday.

We’re loving our space topic! In our sketching session we had a go at drawing astronauts using simple shapes. We’ve also been learning about 3D shapes and have made some space walkie talkies from junk model materials based on the book The Way Back Home.

We’ve been using black sugar paper and chalks to create solar system pictures. We used our fingers to smudge the chalk to make the stars look fuzzy and bright.

We turned up to an unbelievable sight on Monday. Something or someone had left a huge mess in our classroom. We’ve been so curious about it and finally came to the conclusion that it must’ve been an alien! There was slime, tools, an egg of some sort, rocks and more. Mr Tims, the caretaker, told us to write an incident report so that he could gather some more information before clearing up the mess.

We learnt all about this colourful and happy celebration in China. We enjoyed listening to Abi and Yin telling us all about their traditions including going to a parade and watching the dragon dance, eating a big family meal, and wearing new clothes. As a class we talked about our own traditions and celebrations too.

We celebrated by creating our own Chinese dragon using paint and handprints, we even had a go at writing in Chinese which was very different! We made dragons from Duplo and learnt all about the Chinese zodiac. This year it’s the year of the rat. We had the opportunity to try a little bit of Chinese food and make our own lantern. A fantastic day full of new experiences.

We went on a nature walk last week to collect twigs to make our clay hedgehogs and here they are! Aren’t they so lovely? We rolled the clay into balls and pinched the front to create a nose. We added a button for a nose and the twigs for the spikes. We love our hedgehogs and have not stopped looking at them.

In our literacy we have been enjoying a Ukrainian folktale called The Mitten by the author Jan Brett. We have read it, story mapped it and written our own favourite parts of the story. We have thought of ourselves as mini authors and even had a book reading in front of the class where we read our stories to our friends. See some of our writing below.

Click here to listen to The Mitten read by Jan Brett. It’s a lovely winter story about a young boy’s mitten, snow and woodland animals. The Mitten by Jan Brett

 

 

We’ve been working hard on identifying and describing quantities using the language of more, less and fewer. We can tell you’ve been working hard on this over the Christmas holiday too.

Click on the link below for a fun and quick more and less game we play in class.

http://www.ictgames.com/mucky.html

This half term the children are rotating around three new creative arts activities. They will be doing sketching, poetry through the art of singing and learning the Cha Cha Cha in dance. This week in our sketching session we explored shading using artists pencils and then drawing a bear. We’ve been reading the story called The Mitten which features a bear character. We followed instructions and all drew the same part at the same time. We love how unique every drawing is.

Our first term is over! Where has the time gone. We’ve loved every minute and celebrated with a class Christmas party today. We reflected on our year so far and were reminded of all the friends we’ve made and how much we’ve learnt in such a short space of time. It made us excited for what’s to come next year! See you all on Monday 6th January 2020.

Merry Christmas Skipper Foundation. Xx

We loved our Christmas dinner today. We even bumped into Father Christmas on the way to lunch! We were amused to know that he’d left his reindeer’s on the roof during his visit 🦌

We’ve been getting very festive in the class this week. We’ve enjoyed potato printing our families in the form of snowmen and decorating ginger biscuits.

We played some festive Christmas games in the hall this week including a version of duck duck goose called elf, elf, Santa. We also tried to steal Santa’s present without waking him up. We loved this game and didn’t want it to end.