Blog Author: Mrs Boyle

Team work and orienteering to find the hidden eggs. Well done for all teams showing good sportsmanship.

We have enjoyed looking and learning about the french artist Henri Matisse. We have copied his style and explored making our own collages and a group collage. 
 

Coach Steve came in to tell us all about Allstars Cricket. We practised some cricket skills e.g throwing , catching, holding a bat, hitting and controlling the ball. 
We really enjoyed it. 
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Thank you to the parents who came to our, ‘Reading Cafe’. The children loved listening to a range of stories and we even enjoyed some juice and a biscuit! 

We had an amazing day at Blackpool Zoo today! We enjoyed finding out about what each animal ate and found out if they are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. We watched the tiger eating his dinner and worked out he was a carnivore. The fact-files around the zoo, also helped us. 
Thank you to…

We used compasses to direct our partners around the playground. We directed them using the language north, south, east and west. We enjoyed making up silly rhymes to remember the compass points. Naughty, Silly, Earth, Worm was one of our favourites and Naughty, Elephants, Squirt, Water.

As part of our topic of animals, we have been looking closely at different types of animals, their groups and their features. Therefore, we were very excited to look after some fish for a few weeks. We are enjoying feeding them and discussing the different parts we can see e.g “...look at their…

We have enjoyed finding out and sorting what different animals eat. We have used the vocabulary herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. We have also thought about what we eat! 

We enjoyed listening to the stories that the Year 4’s read to us. We also enjoyed trying to guess the ‘Masked Readers’ from Y4 and Y1 ! They were very well disguised ! 

We really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and all the fun activities we we did. We listened to the famous illustrator Axel Scheffler (Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Zog) who showed us how he illustrated some characters and read us some of his favourite books. 
We also enjoyed the World Book…