We enjoyed raising money for red nose day, we had a cake sale, wore red clothes and played games. Pin the nose on Mr tumble was so much fun!

Here is our close-up photo game – click on the link and have a go yourself. (Absolutely no peeking at the answers before you study the photos!)

CLOSE UPS

Here are the answers – can you match them to each picture?

apple                                cornflake                         

lipstick                            orange                           

ball-point pen             spaghetti (dried)         

sugar crystal                 fingerprint                   

  tea bag                          edge of book pages      

In LB 1 & 2 we had a circus of activities where we had to use our different senses to say what things were. We had feely boxes, played a sounds game, looked at very close-up pictures of everyday objects (this was tricky) and smelled some very pungent smells and had to guess what they were.

The first day of spring sounded like a good excuse to go outside to do some gardening. After weeding and levelling some raised beds, LB1 planted some potatoes in the school’s new garden. We hope to taste our harvest later in the year.

There will be a bake sale tomorrow at break-time (we have lots of  in date cakes leftover from last week’s Comic Relief bake sale).

50p per cake -maximum of two per pupil.

The interactive Google Doodle for today was just perfect for enabling us to find out about harmonies. It linked just nicely with our own musical compositions last week . We spent the first part of the lesson placing our own notes on the staves and then the program to put harmonies to our compositions.  They sounded great!

This year our school’s theme was: Wild About Reading! Just take a look at all the wild animals that arrived into school today.  The children shared their information fact-file about their chosen animal and their ‘caught in the wild’ photographs.  What a lot of  wild and wacky places to be caught reading.

Our special visitor was from our local library and she shared a story about jungle animals and answered the children’s questions about her job.  

Keep on reading!

The children helped to raise money for the charity by wearing something red, buying raffle ticket for an amazing chocolate hamper and some delicious cakes. We went to a special assembly and learnt about the reasons why it’s important to raise money for charity. Now we wait in anticipation to find out who won the hamper!

Shrove Tuesday is a great day for  pancake lovers as well as being of religious significance for Christians.  The children shared past family experiences and are wondering whether Dr Kirby can really give up chocolate for 40 days!

We read and followed the instructions to make the pancake batter in class and sang the cBeebies pancake rap whilst whisking it smooth.  The fun continued in role play even after we had decorated and eaten our pancakes up!   

The children had a fantastic time celebrating Chinese New Year and were wowed by the acrobatic Chinese dragon and lion dance videos.  We danced a much easier version practicing our coordination with a drum beat and made our own version of a Bolang Gu rattle drum.  The children also made red envelopes but instead of money ours contained a lucky chocolate heart.  Our favourite activity was tasting a variety of Chinese food!

After watching some traditional Chinese dances being performed our visitors demonstrated some Tai Chi moves.   It was much harder than it looks to cultivate our life energy to flow smoothly throughout our body.