Welcome back after the holidays, I hope everyone enjoyed the break! I can't quite believe we are already in our summer term! The year is just flying by.
It has been an exciting return to school especially for our Literacy lessons as we have been lucky enough to have two visits in two days!
Yesterday we had a puppet show, the Lucky Gingerbread man from the Magic Book theatre. It was excellent and the children enjoyed themselves immensely, especially as they all know the story so well! We are looking forward to making some of the puppets we saw yesterday especially the newspaper puppets. They are so easy to make and hopefully will create hours of fun.
All of the puppets were made out of easily accessed materials such as wooden spoons from the kitchen and scourers etc.
My favourite activity was when we got into pairs and became Pinocchio and the puppet master. One person (the puppet master) had to lead the other (Pinocchio) in his movements. The children were amazing at looking carefully and copying movements.
We have some videos of the day which will be playing each morning at the start of the day so do come in and see what happened! Here is an extract of part of the show.
We have been studying non-fiction texts for three weeks now and on Monday began our big topic of creating an interactive non-fiction text on machines. We were lucky enough to have HSS, a hire company, come in with some of their machines and tools and explain how they work and what they are used for.
We used our science brains to think about why we would need ear defenders when using some of the machines. Hugh is sitting here on the dump truck. He answered all our questions.
The children came up with some amazing questions and lots of them enjoyed sitting on the dumper truck! There were lots of new and tricky words to add to our vocabulary, the teachers learnt lots of new words today as well!
Over the next two weeks we will be creating an information book about machines as a class and in groups. 1 Peach have already begun their book, we are calling it 'Machine Detectives' which Hamza thought of.
This is a pebble dasher and is used on walls of houses. We asked lots of questions about this machine especially as most of us weren't sure what pebbles were.
Ask your child what other machines and tools they saw today!
This is a metal locator. This is used to check there are no electric cables before drilling into the ground. We liked the noise it made to warn us when something was metal.
Next week we have another trip... come back for more details soon!
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