Rhythmic Musicians

28th March 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill became marvellous musicians this week! We recapped our musical vocabulary by completing a definition hunt around the classroom. Once we were sure we understood the terms such as beat, tempo and rhythm, we created our own rhythms using graphic notations. We used frog, tadpole, caterpillar and butterfly, clapping out the syllables to create a rhythm. We worked in mini crews to clap out a given rhythm and everyone had to guess what graphic notations we had been given. Following this, we matched the graphic notations to standard notation symbols. We found this a little tricky but we got there in the end!

Colourful Collage

27th March 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill continued their art slice by focusing on the skills needed to be able to complete their own collage. We focused on selecting different sections of colour within our magazines and then cut these coloured sections into small squares and rectangles. We then collaged these together and filled out squares. We cannot wait to use this technique on our final product!

Collage skills

27th March 2024Ruth Shields

Following on from learning about a new artist, we had an opportunity to practice some collaging using paper from old magazines. We discussed the important of cutting different shapes, overlapping and ensuring we filled in the blank spaces.

Making numbers to 10

26th March 2024A Welburn

This afternoon, we have looked at making numbers to 10. We started by selecting a number from the magic bag, and then choosing two representations from the pile of tens frames. We counted up all of the counters on the representations to see how many we had altogether and to see if we had made the magic number or not. After that, we made dominoes using our play dough and beads. We talked about how many were in each part and how many altogether.

Poetry in MI

25th March 2024Stacey McClare

On Friday Crew MI thought about Easter and what it means to Christians and what it means to us personally. We created an anchor chart all about Easter then put our ideas into a whole crew acrostic poem. We then created our own poems to go inside our Easter cards that we have created during our latest art slice 🙂 We are looking forward to taking these home and sharing with our families.

Shape Practice

25th March 2024Eleanor Pashley

Nursery had lots of fun in maths today practicing drawing different shapes and learning their shape names ready to practice sorting them tomorrow. Ruby even chose to practice drawing rectangles in provision this morning.

Publishing our writing in MI

25th March 2024Stacey McClare

MI are really enjoying publishing their non chronological reports on tigers! They are loving seeing their writing come to life whilst adding their own title, sub headings and pictures to their work. We can’t wait to see them all completed later in the week 🙂

Mindful Monday

25th March 2024Olivia Fox

In our Crew this morning, we shared our feelings and started to learn about how to keep our minds healthy. We unpicked what the word ‘mental’ means and then discussed ‘mental well-being’. After a crew conversation around what we all enjoy doing, we completed a yoga task to start our day off calmly and positive.

During our debrief, we reflected on what we had learned about why it is important to look after ourselves.

Summer, ‘It is important to keep mentally healthy so that you can be positive.’

Levi, ‘If you have a good mental health you can think better and clearer.’

Lydia, ‘It’s important to look after ourselves to live a happy and healthy life.’

Shelby, ‘The yoga was calming and can help you let out any stresses. You can do this at home too.’

Joshua, ‘I am going to try and make sure I sleep for longer to be healthier.’