The Innovators

This afternoon it was so sunny! We all went outside and realised that everyone had a shadow! We drew around our shadow, and then had a go at doing different poses to make our shadow change. It was so much fun!

This week in Literacy we have been focusing on Geography!

The Innovators have been looking at maps (Maps of the World, Great Britain, Sheffield and Pitsmoor). 

Today we used directions on the map to find our way through school to the office. 

What are directions? Why not ask your child if they can tell you what directions are.

Where did we go in school? Can your children remember?

Challenge – Can you make a map at home?

Mr. Riley 

This afternoon we and our friends The Achievers and The Jewels made some Christmas tree paintings by using a plastic fork to scrape paint and create the bristles. We then decorated with glitter and painted the tree stump using a paintbrush. Look at how lovely they look! Come down to foundation and see them on display.

Using what we learned in Maths:

We have been looking at maps of our classroom environment. 

The children then went and created their own map of Pitsmoor. 

We drew our houses, Tesco, the church and the mosque.

Well done Foundation  and a big well done to Mrs Westney!

Have a good week Innovators.

Mr. Riley

This afternoon we were challenged to work together with our friends The Achievers to build a long pipe that we could pour water through without it falling out! We thought very carefully about how we could fit the pieces together before Miss Mayor-Choudrey poured water down it. We had so much fun!

We were so excited to come back after half term and see that we have a new science area in our classroom! We got to work straightaway and used pipettes to squeeze coloured water into mixing palettes. We then used paper tubes to create firework pictures with paint and black paper. They were so colourful! We described the noises that fireworks make such as “boom!”, “whoosh!” and “pow!”.

Today we retold the story of the little red hen. 

We used masks of the characters from the story to retell different parts of the story.

“Not I” said the Bull.

“Not I” said the Cat.

“Not I” said the Rat .

After our lesson children even went to the workshop table to create their own masks from the story!

Have a great holiday.

Mr. Riley 

This week we have tried our best in maths in our 1:1 counting, subitising and saying the total of a group. We practised this by counting conkers onto leaves with different numbers on. We were AMAZING!

In SEAL we learned all about being good friends through being kind and sharing with others. 

Why not ask your children all about Tickled Pink and Green for Growth?

We learned that if we ever feel angry we could take 3 breaths in and 3 breaths out helping us to feel calmer. Why not try this at home too!

Mr. Riley 

This week The Innovators learnt all about verbs and nouns, and identified them in our class story ‘Once There Were Giants’. We sorted out verbs and nouns into two groups, and then composed an oral sentence from them. We were fantastic and tried our best!