Questions about toys

The children have been learning how to ask a good question to find out about toys in the past. They used question words and matched them up with part sentences to make a question that helped them learn some information. We found out that some questions starting with 'Do', 'Could', 'Was' can only have a yes or no answer but questions starting with Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How will tell us more.

Learning Skills

Well done and Thank you to everyone who sent in a design for our new learning skills display. It was hard to choose one for our year group so Mr Brown and I chose three and the children voted for their favourite. This rainbow design by Zoe in the Blackbirds was the most popular with a fishy design coming in a close second. The displays will be up soon so look out for them in class.

International Week

We had fun learning about France and Alaska this week. First we learned to sing 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' in French. The children in year 6 came and taught us, then we sang to the rest of the school in assembly on Friday. We looked at pictures by the artists Monet and Seurat and then we copied them using paints and pastels. Some of our pictures are on the hall display. We made our own French flags and We answered the register in French this week. Now we are looking forward to learning more after Christmas. Later in the week we found out about the Inuit people in Alaska and how they hunt and live in their cold country. We listened to stories, made sleds and finger masks and we learned a song called 'Okki Tokki Unga' about a boy who goes fishing in a kayak.

Measuring

This week we have been measuring how long things are. We used cubes to measure things in the classroom and some of us cut paper clothes to fit a paper doll shape.

Puppets

Our measuring skills were useful when we designed and made finger puppets. First we chose a character from a fairytale and drew it. Then we cut felt to make clothes for our puppet and added details using wool, sequins and more felt. Don't they look great? Now we are ready to make up stories.

Toys

Our history topic this term is all about toys now and in the past. Thank you to all parents who helped with the homework sheets telling us about the toys you played with when you were children. Some old toys have also escaped from dusty lofts to visit us and we would love to see any others if they are allowed out to play! We are using different resources to learn about toys long ago. So far we have watched videos and looked at photographs. We also played with toys in class that were popular in the past. Who remembers jacks and pick up sticks?

Lost Teddies at the park

We went to the park with our teddies. While we had fun on the slide and swings our teddies got lost. When we looked where we had put them they had gone! We looked everywhere and finally we found them. They must have fallen or jumped off the place where we left them. We were very pleased to find them so we wrote stories about their adventures. Can you see some of our teddies in the pictures?

Colour Mixing

We have been learning how to mix colours to make new colours when we paint. Can you remember which colours mix to make orange, purple and brown?