We have started to think about our new topic- Explorers. We looked though an explorers rucksack to see what we would need if we were to travel to different places around the world. We thought about the following questions-

What essentials would you need to stay alive?

How would you know where to go?

What type of clothing would you need?

We all shared our ideas and Miss Whittaker recorded them on the thinking mat. We discussed and developed the ideas further before using the thinking hats to help us to think about what we already know  about explorers and what we want to find out through our topic work.

Cillian, Reuben and Matthew had a fantastic discussion about visiting an island. They talked about what they would need and where they would get their water from.

Reuben said, "You can not drink sea water because it is too salty and it would kill you."

Matthew replied, "I know what you could do. You can get bamboo and cut it in half long ways."

"That would make a trough." Cillian replied.

"Yeah and then you put one end high and one low and put a pot underneath to collect the rain water." Matthew responded.

The boys then talked about how they would keep one end high through the night using rocks, leaves and tress to support it.

I hope I am with these boys if I am ever stranded on an island. 

We have been very busy learning all about Frogs and how they change from a tadpole to a frog- this is called metamorphosis! We learnt a song to help us to remember the stages in the life cycle of a frog. We then worked in groups to create a dance to help us to remember the different stages. Have a look on Learn Anywhere at  the videos of our dances.

Then we listened to a poem called The Bullfrog and in small groups we learnt a section of the poem. We talked about the poem and its features including repetition, rhyming, short sentences, telling a story etc We performed our poem remembering to use clear, loud voices with expression, remembering to keep with the beat of the group. Have a look on Learn Anywhere at our performance.

We wrote an acrostic poem together before writing our own versions. Come and have a look how we chose to present our life cycle work and read out fantastic acrostic poems.

Welcome back. I hope you have had a fantastic Easter. We have said goodbye to Miss Fernando as she finishes her last teaching placement at Friezland School and wish her well. We have welcomed back Miss Whittaker who will be in our class for her final teaching placement until the middle of the summer term.

The topic for this half term is Explorers and we will be travelling with Christopher Columbus around the world. Miss Whittaker and myself have planned some exciting activities and look forward to sharing them with you on this blog. We will also be spending some time finding out about animals in science thinking about food chains and what animals need to survive, we started this work last half term thinking about the frogs in our pond. We will continue to watch the frogspawn to see what happens to it over the next few weeks. We will be finding out all about Spain during European week and will be celebrating The Queens birthday thinking about the work she does and how lucky we are to have a special Royal family.

Over the Easter holiday Miss Challinor and Miss Blizzard went to Santander in Spain to learn Spanish to enable them to teach the children at St Chad's alongside Mrs Preston and Mrs Wharton who have previously be on the training. Miss Blizzard will be teaching Spanish Year 1 and 2 on a Friday afternoon and is looking forward to playing lots of games and doing different activities to help the children to learn new Spanish words and phrases.

We are going to be very busy the half term learning lots of new things and developing our ideas and sharing them with the class and the rest of the school.

We though about our learning at the museum. We looked at four different areas- Victorian Schools, jobs for Victorian children, Victorian homes and Victorian toys. We had to create a postcard to show what we had learnt on our visit to the Victorian museum. The postcard had to show what it was like in Victorian times. If we chose a toy we had to show the type of child who would play with it and where they would play. Have a look at our postcards. Does it show you what we have learnt?

We used the TASC wheel to help us to design little wooden people from the Victorian Times. Have a look at the people below can you guess if the are rich Victorian people or poor Victorian people.

Some children followed instructions to create toys which poor children will have played with. They worked well to follow the instructions and showed a great level of perseverance when things got tricky.

We have been busy creating information booklets, writing postcards to our Victorian mummies and writing a  recount of a trip to show what we have learnt about the Victorian times. Have a look on the display in our classroom at some of the examples of our writing. 

Our trip to Salford Museum- The Victorian Street

On Thursday we went on a trip to Salford Museum. We found out lots more information about Victorian times. Have a look at the photographs below to see the activities we got involved in.

The frogs have arrived in our school pond again and have already laid frogspawn. It will be fantastic for us to watch the frogspawn develop into tadpoles. Make sure you visit it regularly so you can see how our family of frogs are growing- we will post lots of new pictures too and show you what we have been learning as their life cycle begins again.

We have been creating a fantastic Habitat display in the classroom- come in and have a look! Here is some of the descriptive writing we have written about specific animals- Can you guess which animals we are writing about? Which habitat would they live in?

What am I?

My skin is scailee my tong is black

with a scailee sliveree tail. Watch out

I will bite you and I will jump of the

scary bushes.

Written by Cillian

What am I?

My body is whit and fluffy  and I have

a black head. I like to leap over the wall.

Written by Amelia C

What am I?

I am brown and heay.  I like to swing on

On vayns. When I jump I am very happy

I make a funny noise. Whach out I mayn’t

Steel your banarnas.

Written by Brooke C

What am I?

Sometimes I slide on my tummy but

I waddle too. I’m non for my sliding

And I live in the Polar Regions. I like

My habitat because I like the freezing

Cold.

Written by Lara

What am I?

I have 8 legs and they are long and thin lick a

jiraffes nec but I have a big head too. I love to

swim in the water.

Written by Lily

What am I?

I have a beck and peck at trees. With

My beck I peck at worms. I have colourful

Feathers.

Written by Mimi