Month: May 2016

We have been learning about China during International week, and have enjoyed exploring traditional music, stories, dance, food and calligraphy, as well as finding out about the wildlife of China and modern cities like Hong Kong.

We have made an interactive book using the Book Creator app to show all our learning.

On Friday, we dressed in national dress or the colours of a flag to celebrate our diverse school community.

We have been very lucky to see life starting around us this term!

A few weeks ago, we visited the ducklings that had hatched out in Reception. We then found out there were tadpoles and newts in the pond in Redcross Gardens. When Sara and some members of the class went to get some, they found an enormous snail too! We also saw a bee with pollen on its legs in our garden.

Here are some of the things the class said about the snail: “Snails go really slowly.” “The snail is so slimy and soft.” “They live in shells”.

Here are some of the things the class said about tadpoles: “What are they doing in the leaf? They might be hiding.” “Are they eating it?”

Here are some questions we had about newts: “Why does he live in the water?” “Is he going to grow big?”

Max even made up an action song about bees with these words: “The bee’s going in the flower to get some honey.”

We used castle characters to create stop-motion animations using the “I Can Animate” app on the iPad. We found out about how some of the TV shows we like are made. It was amazing seeing the characters brought to life!

We also told stories with a partner about the different characters. Here is a selection:

Maddison and Mariama
The queen is going to find a knight.
The wizard will find a wife.
The wizard turns them into a frog.
The frogs jump in the water.
The dragon gives them a ride back home.
The wizard goes home to his dad.

Yvette and Iyad
The princess walks through the woods to the dragon.
The dragon breathes some fire.
So she runs home.
The dragon chases her.
She meets a witch.
He breathes the fire again.
The witch saves the princess.

Maidie and Henry
The dragon goes to get the queen.
The queen is going to the castle.
He’s going to the castle and knock on the door and eat the queen!
She’s going to run away but she fell down!
The dragon breathes fire.
The Queen turns into a princess.
The dragon turns into a prince.

Anashe and Diane
The wicked wizard wanted to change the beautiful queen into a frog queen.
She runs away.
The wizard changes her into a camel but then he had no more power.
She casts a spell and turns back into a queen.
He runs back to his magic castle and has a wizard party for all his wizard friends.
The queen goes away.
They both say sorry to each other then they are friends.
They live happily ever after.

Stanley and Yonatan
Once upon a time there was a dragon eating boys, so Stanley ran away.
The wizard flew away and he gonna help Stanley with his magic stick.
The dragon flied away. He goed to his home in England. And then he flied back again. He getting his phone. He left it in the hole.
The wizard fly away and look for the dragon. But he’s too far away.
Then Stanley came back and fighted the dragon. And Stanley winned.

Ethan and Sebastian
The knight is fighting the dragon.
Dragon breathes fire.
The knight goes back to his castle, it’s silver.
He fly at the cave. He’s got jewels, he’s sleeping.

Beatrice and Rebecca
Once upon a time there was a little princess who was sad because she was sick and someone put a pea down her bed.
The dragon came and scared the princess away and she ran and ran as fast as she can. And the dragon has got wings to follow that princess.
She was still alive and the dragon blowed fire at her. Then the princess whack him with a sword. And then the prince came to the princess and they lived happily ever after.

Sarah and Kaiya
Once upon a time here was a castle.
They were about to go to a ball.
But the dragon wanted to eat the king.
They wanted the princess to do all the work.
No one was scared of the dragon.
So they went to the ball, the king and the princess.
The princess was very beautiful, she had a very nice dress.
They went to the ball and they danced.
They danced very silly at the ball.
At the ball they got married, they still danced silly but they lived happily ever after.

Olivia and Max
Once upon a tie there was a father, who was a wizard.
And there was a princess called Belle.
Belle’s father went to the Beast’s castle. The castle was big and pointy.
When Belle and her father went to the castle, the father yelled “hello, anybody there?”
Then a beast shadow appeared and father said to the Beast “we are lost in the woods.” Belle and the father were scared.
The Beast was nice to Belle but Belle’s father was not nice.
Beauty and the Beast got married and they danced together.

India and Luca
Once upon a time there was a wizard and a princess. The wizard turned the princess into stone.
The knight was kind and went to rescue the princess on his horse.
The wizard disappeared.
The brave knight married the princess.

We are currently working on practical addition in nursery, with a little help from our fairy tale theme!

This week, we are adding different coloured mattresses on the Princess and the Pea’s bed. Last week, we added up different amounts of dragon’s treasure. Here are some photos of some members of nursery using the adding resources independently.

For parents: Begin by supporting your child to recognise numerals, and to be able to choose the correct number of objects to match each numeral. When they can do this confidently, children can then begin to add two groups of objects by counting all of them.