Snowy weather in nursery means exploring and adapting our learning ❄️☃️ We went out on the MUGA to do our daily mile and whilst we was walking around, we was discussing the snow and the different patterns we could see. Then at lunchtime we did some mark making with powder paint in the snow 🎨 ❄️ We observed what happened when the powder paint mixed with the ice and snow and made lots of different marks, the children had so much fun. Outdoor play and learning is so important ❗️We are in the process of trying to enhance our outdoor area and we received a very kind donation today of wood chippings bought for us. Thank you so much ❤️ We are looking forward to you all seeing how we are going to improve the area 🙊

We continued learning about Chinese New year today and we tasted some yummy Chinese food. We tasted prawn crackers and sweet and sour noodles 🍝 They were delicious and the children all tried them, as the saying goes you don’t know you like something unless you try!

We are working hard to build on our tidying skills and help each other to look after our classroom. Well done Eveah for always doing the right thing the right way and aiming for green standard, even though she has only been in our class a few weeks! 🤩

We’ve had a tremendous Tuesday in Crew Wilson!

Highlight of the day:

Our expedition lesson, where we have created swords as part of our learning about castles. We worked fantastically as collaborators with this project and we are so proud of how our work has turned out! Tomorrow we will be moving on to shields, and once they are completed we will be effectively protected ready for our fierce crew battle after half term!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: Daisy for staying on track with her learning this afternoon even with distractions, and following the instructions to ensure her sword was beautiful!

Get Smart: Stevie for having great listening ears today and correcting her writing independently, well done!

Be Kind: Mia for looking after the classroom and always asking for jobs so she can help teachers out!

Howl Average:

3.0 – a slight dip due to listening skills and paying attention, some children have had to lower their ‘Get Smart’ scores for today but are aware of their personal improvement target for tomorrow! Let’s get to 4.0 by the end of the week Crew Wilson!

✨Star moment✨

Star moment today was seeing the crew work together as a team in PE. This was great to see as it is something that Crew Marsh can sometimes struggle with. Keep up the crew spirit!! 👍👍

Average is: 2.4 – this is a massive drop and a real shame 😢

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh need to continue to make sure they are fully concentrating on their learning and listening to instructions, we have been chatty again today and I think this is effective our positive attitudes towards our learning.

Howl hero: 

Work hard today is Mia!

I was super impressed today watching Mia in PE, is was great to see her joining in and having a lovely time. Great positive attitude Mia!!

We are really trying hard to improve our reading skills in school, and thought these ideas were great to support children at home.

Have fun reading at home everyone Please make sure you share all your reading photos with us 👍

We love to hear all about your favourite stories. Xx

What a terrific Tuesday we have had today!

The children have continued to work on their 2nd expedition case study and looked closely at materials and their properties. We worked in mini crews and together located different objects around the classrooms to discuss what materials they were made out of. We then deepened our understanding of materials by discussing the materials properties. We found out that windows were made of glass, which is both strong and fragile. We also found most glass objects are transparent.

The children are loving their expedition this half term, keep up the great work everyone.

Our HOWL average today was 3.1! Amazing everyone 🌟

Tuesday✔️

We have all worked really hard today in maths, investigating numbers up to 20.

Our highlight of today was decorating our shields. We used our shields as a template to cut out the coloured paper and stick it to show which crew we have an allegiance to all ready for our medieval battle!

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Bronwyn 👏

Get Smart: Charlie 👏

Be Kind: Heartley 👏

Today’s HOWL average: 2.8 We need to work on our listening tomorrow Crew Welburn

Terrific Tuesday! Well done to Crew Gerrard today for our best day of online learning yet. All the work was completed and handed in, with lots of top quality answers. We have been continuing to read Holes and we are about to read the best chapter tomorrow, in my opinion. Then we completed our final lesson on equivalent fractions, which I am confident that we have now cracked. Great perseverance, Crew Gerrard. We’ve had another tough choice for of HoWL heroes today, but they are:

Work Hard: Emily – you continue to produce fantastic work in all subjects and take everything in your stride 😁

Get Smart: Ellie-May – you have given your best to all subjects today and I cannot fault that at all 😃

Be Kind: Sapphire – I know you’ve been completing work at home, but I think everyone in your Crew was really glad to see you again 😄

Our HoWL average was 2.9, so let’s continue to improve that tomorrow! 😆