Friday, April 26, 2013

26th April 2013


Nursery

A big welcome to all our new nursery children.  Hope to see you at our Children’s Centre this Fri 26th April at 2.30pm for a get together.  Another busy fun week in the life of Darlinghurst nursery.  The weather has been super which means we can get to go outside and have fun in the sun.  However, please remember to apply sun cream to your child prior to nursery session start times.  Our topic this term is ‘Health and Growth’  this week we looked at growing from a baby through to being elderly.  The children especially enjoyed our indoor climbing climb and are getting very good at taking turns.

Reception

What a lovely week it has been and we have been very fortunate to have been able to continue our bear hunting in the sunshine! RB, RN and RF went on their bear hunts whilst RW made bear sandwiches which they shared with their bears from home whilst discussing our topic and what we have enjoyed this week. We learnt some information about bears, where they live, what they like to eat and why they have furry coats! I think we Have all become super bear hunters over the last two weeks! we used our knowledge to write our own story maps of the story and some of us even tried to create their own story maps by changing the main scenes to their own ideas. well done reception you have all worked so hard!!

Just a quick reminder please remember to bring into school sun hats, water bottles and sun cream all with your child's name.

Have a lovely weekend 
The Reception Team

1B

Hello everybody,
We have had a very busy week, as usual, in 1B. In Maths we have been exploring Subtraction by counting back using numberlines and bead strings. We have also looked at “finding the difference” and taken part in problem solving investigations. In English we have been examining rhyming words, alliteration and rhythm to help us to have a go at writing our own vegetable poems. In Science we have planted beetroot, cabbage, peas, carrot and leek seeds. We have to keep an eye on them and think of the best ways to help them grow. We have also labelled the main parts of a plant and thought about what their jobs are in helping the plant to stay healthy.
Here are some of the activities that some of the children have particularly enjoyed this week:
Joseph- I liked PE because I enjoyed passing the ball to my partner, it was fun.
Reanna- I liked Maths because I like doing taking away.
Jack- I enjoyed PE because when we were passing the ball to three people we had to move around a lot and I like moving around.
Daniel- The owls were naughty, because of this I enjoyed seeing them.
Bailey- When we did difference between, I liked it because It challenged my brain.
Macy- Learning how to catch a big ball in PE was good because I like learning new things.
Karter- I liked the big, scary, Eagle owl.

Thanks for all your contributions children.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Bernard

4CA

This week the class have been learning how to do ‘chunking’ to solve division calculations and have done really well. In English we have continued to look at persuasive writing but this time in the form of a letter written by ‘The Demon Headmaster’. In ICT we are writing back to the pupils in year 4 at Eastbury Primary. We have been enjoying working with the PE coaches in the hall. For Science we have been looking at liquids and how the volume in a container does not change when it is transferred to another container. In History we have started to look at the 6 wives of Henry V111 in detail. On Monday we used ordinance survey maps and discovered what many of the symbols are for.