Friday, 29 August 2014

Lemon Experience

We looked at, touched, smelt and tasted lemons to build up a bank of describing words for our writing.






Then we wrote about our lemon experience using some wonderful describing words.
Lastly we did some observational drawings of the lemon.
Here is some examples. Feel free to come in and see / read the rest.









Folkdancing


We have been learning two folk dances as part of our Phys Ed programme.
With lots of boys in our class I had to teach how to skip first, it was quite an entertaining
session!!
Once we mastered skipping we learnt to listen to the music and move in time to it. 
Another tricky skill for some!
The dances were Plaskavic Kolo from Yugloslavia ( Croatia ) and Jibidi from France.
In the end most of the children loved the experience.











Friday, 22 August 2014

Folk dancing

Here we are practising a folk dance from Croatia.
The boys had to learn to skip and sidestep correctly first!!
Lots of funny moves but we got there in the end.





Tornados in Room One

During Science with Mrs O'Leary, we made tornadoes in bottles
and looked at real life tornadoes on our Activboard.
It was quite amazing!!



Thursday, 14 August 2014

Stu Duval story Teller and Artist

The Junior School loved listening to Stu's story about a Book Monster who liked living on bookshelves in houses where children love reading books. He used music to help tell his story and add atmosphere to the story too. 
Then ... Stu taught us all some cartoon drawing starting from a single letter or a number.
Ask us to show you all about it. The resulting cartoon pictures were fantastic and all very different!










Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Describing words

We are looking at using describing words in front of a thing/object?
Here are some examples.

Brown pen
Hard book
Shiny sun
Yummy bun

By Leyton


Sharp pen
Flappy book
Sparkly sun
Ham bun

By Patrick


Blue pen 
Coloured book
Yellow sun 
Soft bun

By Blake


Long pen
Big book
Orange sun
Nice bun

By Wilbur