Week beginning 27.6.16

This week is art week. We have been looking at the work of Beatriz Milhazes- a famous Brazilian artist. Her work is influenced by Brazilian landscapes, flowers, shape and colour. The children are all creating their own interpretation of her work using paint. They are also creating their own version of her work using 2paint on the computers, crayons, pencils and coloured paper. We are really impressed with how hard the children are working at their weekly spellings. We will carry this on until the end of term. This is great practice for when they start year 2 when they will have weekly spellings. We have noticed a significant drop in reading over the passed few weeks. Please make sure you are reading with your child at least three times a week and recording this in their yellow book. Our final Big Book Share in Wednesday 6th Juy at 9-920am. Please come along and share a book with your child. The children will be visiting their new teachers next week and we look forward to seeing you all at the Summer Fair and BBQ Friday 8th July from 5:30pm.

Week beginning 20.6.2016

This week the children have done a superb job, as I am sure will all agree, at our summer concert. The children have worked so hard and we are extremely proud of them. In maths we have been recapping on time, money and addition and subtraction. In English we have been working on comprehension and handwriting. We have also let the children have lots of rest time because they have been working so hard during the concerts. Next week we will begin our Art Week where we are looking at the work of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. The children will all be creating their own interpretation of her work. Thank you to everyone who has been able to come and see the concert this week.

Week beginning 13.6.206

This week the phonic checks have begun. Please keep practicing with your children with both their sounds and word reading. EGGSITING NEWS!Our incubators arrived last week and this morning our chick eggs arrived. They will incubate for 21 days and fingers crossed we will hatch all of our 14 eggs! If there are any families that would like to re-home the chicks please speak to either Mrs Ellis or Miss Tovell. In English this week we have been reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This week we will be having a go at writing number names and days of the week and at the end of the week we will have a go at writing our own short diary of a caterpillar. In maths we will be doing lots of number work looking at one more than and one less than, using a hundred square and ordering numbers up to 100. This week we are also busy preparing for our concerts. We hope you can all attend- Mrs Ellis class Tuesday 21st am Miss Tovell class Monday 20th am

week beginning 6th June 2016

We are glad to see that the sun has decided to put in an appearance for the last half term of this year! This week is out last International Week of the year and we have been learning all about Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. The children have studied the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio and have used their art skills to create their own representation of this in clay and drawing. In Geography we have been comparing our homes in the UK with the Brazilian favela style building, including how much more compact Rio is as a city. Our English lesson have taken us to the Rainforest where we have learnt about the habitat and environment. The children have then created their own fact-sheet about and aspect of the Rainforest they found interesting. They have also been practicing their handwriting and spelling by writing sentences about Brazil. For maths the children have been on a tour of some of the places encountered between Norwich and Rio (Stopping at: Norwich, Paris, Dakar, the Atlantic Ocean and Rio) and have completed a maths challenge based on their learning this year at each stop. In music we have learnt about Samba bands and the children have been creating their own Samba music in preparation for Friday's carnival. We have also been fortunate enough to have two different dance workshops this week and the children will have all experienced Capoeira and Brazilian dance in their PE sessions by the end of the week. On Friday we will celebrate all of the hard work that has gone into their new learning with a Garrick Green Rio inspired carnival. The children are invited to wear bright clothes (but no fancy dress costumes please) on Friday and they will be creating head-dresses during the day. Can we remind everyone to ensure that their child has a full PE kit at school every day - we will be using the best of the kind weather to get outside and practise our sports day skills as often as possible, not just in our timetabled slots.