They use their measuring skills to check they have the shortest route.
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Herons’ Autumn Term’s Learning
As part of the whole school topic “Funny Bones”, we have found out about how amazing our bodies’ organs and systems are, including a rather disgusting demonstration of the digestive process which involved a pair of tights, coffee and breakfast….. We finished the science part of this topic by cooking healthy recipes such as flapjacks and carrot cakes and even making our own apple justice using a press, it looked weird and was hard work but was named “tastyfresh” and tasted just like that.
We have become proficient at using google classroom and google slides to make presentations for assemblies on the core value of Respect to share with other classes and also to show our knowledge about NHS heroes. Here are some examples showing animation or transition of slides and our researching skills, putting information in our own words:
Following on from reading the new book “Health heroes” by Emily Sharratt, we were inspired to apply for jobs in the NHS to show off our writing skills in a formal letter. Here is the start of one:
We worked on rhythm and rhyme to write poems based on Michael Rosen’s “These are the hands”:
These are the hands,
That open the gate,
To welcome the children,
Make sure they’re not late.
These are the hands,
That write on the board,
Help us learn.
The classroom “Lord,”
Helps find our future,
Teaches us lessons,
That are super duper,
Help us find the answer,
Towards our dream job
Maybe .. a dancer?
These are the hands
That let us have fun
While working hard
Until it’s all done, Whose hands are these?
Forest School Fridays have helped develop our intra-personal skills, problem solving abilities and physical and mental well-being. Here are a few of the activities we have done so far: cooking pasta, hot chocolate,making rope swings, dens, learning knots, making parachutes and slides. 
Art and music have been taught together by looking at music from different cultures,trying out the rhythmic ideas from this and then representing them pictorially through collage. What different sounds can you see here?
We have also been developing our printing and stencilling techniques ready to make Christmas cards. 
Bitterns Autumn 2020
In maths this month we have been learning all about money and measuring lengths. The children have particularly enjoyed buying items in the class shop, they were very good at recognising the coins and combining them to make different amounts. We have also been very busy measuring lengths.
Literacy this month has involved learning about non-fiction texts, we are excited to be producing our own non-fiction posters all about big machines.
In phonics we have continued to learn the phase three and five sounds.
In science we have been working towards achieving our “sense explorers” medals. To achieve these we have been completing five challenges each based around the five senses, we have tasted interesting foods, smelt different items, been on a sound walk and explored our sense of touch.
Our topic work has included learning all about the continents and oceans in geography, festivals in religious education and colour and printing in art. We have also really enjoyed comparing Victorian and modern day hospitals in history.
Coots December 2020
In phonics this term we have learnt all our phase two sounds. We are now beginning to learn our phase three sounds and tricky words by sight.
In maths this term we have been learning to count, read and write numbers to 10. We have also explored space, shape and measure activities. We have made patterns and looked at shapes in the local environment.
In writing this term we have been learning to write our names in cursive and we are beginning to segment and blend words we need.
We have enjoyed our Funnybones topic this term. We have made potions, learnt about our body and drew some maps.
In RE we have learnt about the creation and we have learnt about the Christmas story.
Herons’ forest school
To celebrate Bonfire Night, we created our own firework displays with natural materials.
RE and Art
Kingfishers have been working hard and being creative to show what they have been learning in RE.
