Little mindful breaks in Class 1
Class 1 have been enjoying our different musical and relaxing mindful breaks in class to help us transition to different learning activities and to bring us back together for some calmer moments. They have enjoyed some musical tracing to different classical pieces of music and painting rainbows to…
Minims
Today the children played the minims, noticing how the pitch goes higher as they go up the staff.
What a fantastic and fun first few days in Class 1!
What a brilliant time all the children have had exploring their new classroom.
All the children have all settled into Anson amazingly, started to form some fantastic relationships with both their peers and teachers and have thoroughly enjoyed exploring both our inside and outdoor learning…
Investigating Light in Science
We have started our new Science topic all about light.
We have investigated how light behaves on different materials. We loved having a dark classroom and the torches out.
Egyptian Cinderella
Our new English text is a story set in another culture. So far we have made a prediction about what may happen using clues from the front cover and blurb, created a story mountain to tell the story and contrasted the English version with the Egyptian one. We are excited to read more next week.
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Health related exercise
For our first PE lesson, we took our heart rate before exercise then after different types of exertion such as yoga, a jog and a sprint. We compared how it increased after some exercise and decreased after others and discussed why this was.
Recommended Read books
Class 3 should all have come home with a chapter book today. This is their ‘Recommended read’ book they have chosen to read for pleasure. Whenever they finish and return it, they are welcome to swap for another one.
Art- primary and secondary colours
The children had fun learning about primary and secondary colours this afternoon. We painted our hands in two primary colours and then rubbed our hands together to watch the magic happen!
Proper or common?
We’ve been doing lots of activities this week in our English lessons this week looking at common and proper nouns. The children enjoyed this sorting activity this morning.
Meeting our Prayer Partners
What a fabulous first couple of days the children in Class 1 have had!
One of the highlights has been welcoming our Yr 6 Prayer Partners into Class 1 to meet their new prayer partners. All the Class 1 children thoroughly enjoyed meeting their Prayer Partner and spending time with them exploring…
What makes me special?
Our PSHE lesson today looked at our special qualities. We took time to think and share what makes us all special and appreciate that we all have different qualities.
We are so excited to welcome our new Class 1 children to Anson!
We are so excited to be welcoming our new children to Class 1 next week so much that we thought it would be lovely to share a sneaky peak of some of the activities and areas that are ready for the children to explore and learn in.
All of our fantastic Early Years team cannot wait to enjoy these…