This morning we had an Easter Egg hunt and then enjoyed some treats in the classroom. We were joined by the choir members who sang so beautifully on Monday morning.
Our WAU topic this term has been ‘Our Senses’ and the children have enjoyed learning about how important our senses are for perceiving the world around us. We have investigated our sense of smell and taste recently and also had great fun watching sound waves from a tuning fork make water splash.
Today we made Easter Bunny masks from paper plates, straws, card and other materials. Everyone’s mask was very different and we enjoyed modelling them before taking them home. It was very hard to work out who was behind each bunny!
This morning Years 4-7 enjoyed a special Easter Assembly at which the choir sang. Their performance of Any Dream Will Do, We Sing Hosanna and Good Friday we’re enjoyed by the staff and children and by their friends and family who also attended. Canon Adair gave a short address after on the theme of Easter. We all had a lovely morning.
This year for Mother’s Day we decided to surprise our mums by writing them a letter and posting it. The children enjoyed learning how to write a letter, address an envelope and add a stamp. Then we walked to the post box to post our letters. It was a fun learning experience. We also made and painted pots so our mums had a little gift on their special day.
P4 enjoyed a fantastic science workshop with the guys from W5. The children really enjoyed seeing how things work and getting up to help out.
We wrapped up warm this afternoon to have 15 minutes fun in the snow. The sky was incredibly blue and the air was so, so fresh. We had great fun.
Today, James from the AMMA centre came to teach us how to add sound to Book Creator. We based our books on the Blitz. The children recorded their titles and poems with sound effects. They had great fun doing this and it was great for them to be able to add their own art and literacy work in a digital format.
We welcomed some well known book characters into our room today. See if you can guess who visited! Also, the children were very creative in their ‘decorate a spud’ and ‘decorate a toilet roll’ competition. The winner was Paulina, who made a fab Max, from the Hodgeheg.
This afternoon we went on a scavenger hunt based on using our 5 Senses, which is our new WAU topic. The children had lots of fun recording what they saw, heard, touched and smelled. Taste had to wait until we returned to the classroom for a drink of water and a jelly bean!
