Orange Class

Welcome to the Summer Term! 

Our topic for this term is ...

'Making Waves!'

Orange Class have been finding out about the seaside.

We read some seaside poems including 'Song of the Seaside' by Celia Warren

SONG OF THE SEASIDE

One for a bucket,
Two for a spade,
Three for the castle
    Grandpa made.

Four for a deckchair,
Five for a towel,
Six for the crab
    that made me howl.

Seven for the sunshine,
Eight for the sky,
Nine for the kite
    we like to fly.

We visited the 'beach' at Willington Garden Centre for inspiration. 

We wrote our own versions of the poem. 

See our photos below!

Orange Class worked really hard on their Assembly. 

We have been learning about the canals past and present and did our assembly about the canal through the ages!

We all dressed up as a Victorian family living and working on a canal boat.

Have a look at the pictures and video below!

We had a lovely day on the canal boat at Blisworth in Northampton. Thank you to Crusader Community Boating for making our day so much fun!

Today we were making some watery RAIN pictures linked to our 'Making Waves' topic. 

We practised some mouse skills and explored changing the colour and size of the brush.

We have begun some learning about capacity linked to our topic 'Making Waves'!

Today we were working out which containers could hold 1 litre, which were smaller than a litre and which were larger than a litre! 

At the end of the lesson we had a challenge to see who could find the container which would make the smallest puddle on the floor .... Ama was the winner!

In swimming sessions this term we have started to do some 'Aqua-aerobics'!

We are using our bodies in different ways to move through the water and exercising our arms and legs with lots of splashing!!

Welcome back to the Spring Term!

Our Topic is .....

Awesome Africa!

Please see our Curriculum Overview below to see what we will be learning about this term!

We had a fantastic time at Shepreth Wildlife Park! We saw lots of different animals - including some from Africa! We even got to see some close up in the Discovery Centre!

Take a look at our pictures.

It was World Book Day! 

We dressed up as some fantastic characters! Take a look at our costumes!

On World Book Day, we were reading the book

'The Enormous Crocodile'

by Roald Dahl. It's set in Africa!!

We did lots of fun crocodile activities, played some games and did story massage in pairs and we even made our own Enormous Crocodile!

We measured ourselves against it but no one was as big!

We did our fantastic 'Awesome Africa' assembly with drumming, acting and dancing!! We even made Tatale (Plantain pancakes) for everyone to try!! Well done Orange Class for all their effort and enjoyment! 

Here are some photos! 

We had a brilliant time at Tring Natural History Museum. We were spotting lots of different African Animals!!

Welcome to ORANGE CLASS!

Our topic this term is WEATHER

Now it is December we have started to think about CHRISTMAS! 

We have been Christmas shopping, we went to watch ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Chicken Shed Theatre and made some Christmas cards!

Have a look at our photos below.

We have been learning about Autumn and enjoying some poetry about Autumn leaves!

Have a look at our wonderful Autumn poetry and descriptive writing!!

We also had some fun with Autumn leaves!

We have been learning about rain during our weather topic. 

We had lots of fun investigating puddles and then writing about rain.

To investigate different weathers we had a SNOWBALL FIGHT! And made our own rainbows using objects from around the class room! 

MATHS MADNESS!

This term we have been learning about numbers, money, telling the time and looking at ways of sorting information. 

We have played lots of maths games!

Breakfast Club!

Every Friday morning we are learning how to prepare a cooked breakfast. This term we have be learning how to make toast and cook baked beans and scrambled egg.

We work together and help each other. We are also learning how to be safe in the kitchen.

Sensory Learning

We learn through sensory experiences. This term we have enjoyed Tac-pac, Sound board, Dance massage and musical interaction sessions.

Physical Development!

In Orange Class we spend some of our curriculum time on our physical development. We do activities like swimming, soft play, P.E lessons and being in standing frames and walking frames.

Have a look at some of the things we do!

In Science, we have been investigating materials and their properties.

We have been looking at magnets.

We sorted objects which were magnetic and were not magnetic. We also went around the playground to see if we could find other objects which were magnetic. We found lots!