Christmas ICT activities

In ICT this week we are going to be practising lots of different skills whilst using some different Christmas games, stories and activities. We will be choosing from all the activities below. Clicking on the underlined words will take you to the activities.


At the Advent Calender we will find the different pages for a Christmas Story, clicking on the writing will help us to read the story. Look out for a mouse hiding on each page...can you find them all?

Here are some lovely Christmas pictures to colour in, we learnt how to use the 'fill' and the 'brush' tools earlier this term when we created pictures.


All the Blackbirds have done a great job learning their phonics this term and this Christmas hangman game will let them try to solve some Christmas phrases before the candy canes disappear.

Can you find the words in this Christmas wordsearch?

Design your own costume for how would you dress your snowman if it was a white Christmas in Plymouth.

Muddle up a variety of Christmas pictures then solve these puzzles.

Help the snowman escape this maze of snow to get to the Christmas tree.

Can you catch the presents before they hit the ground in this game?

Can you connect the wires to make all the lights on the tree work?

Match the pictures in this Christmas game.

Have fun

Merry Christmas!

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?

Fairtrade

This week we have been looking at fairtrade and how by buying things with the fairtrade logo on we can help farmers to earn a fair wage.

Here are some fairtrade activities to try:

Catch the cocoa beans

fairtrade shopping basket

fairtrade wordsearch