Sunday 30 December 2012

Christmas Games!

We hope you've had a wonderful Christmas. 
As there is still a week of the holiday left we thought you might want to have a go at some of these brilliant online Christmas games. 
Have fun!

You can read the story of The First Christmas again here; The Christmas Story

Here you can make your own Nativity Scene in the stable; Nativity Scene.

Build your own snowman on this game; Snowman Creator

Sort the presents into the sacks, you choose how you want to sort them; Present Sorter

Click the red noses to play a note, use the numbers given to help you play a Christmas song; Reindeer Music!

On this game you fit the presents into the sleigh with no gaps! Present stacker.

Saturday 29 December 2012

Christmas Party Time

We finished off a fabulous first term and our Christmas celebrations in school, with our Christmas party. 
We had fun partying in the hall with Year 1. We then had our yummy party food in class. Mrs Frisby and Miss Clarke set it all out for us so we could all sit together on the same table. 
Take a look at our photo's.
FS2 Christmas Party on PhotoPeach FS2 Christmas Party on PhotoPeach

Saturday 22 December 2012

During our Christmas celebrations we learnt all about Christingle's, and why they are important, during an assembly led by Mrs Longhawn.

We then made our own Christingle's. Please look at our photograph's. 

Our Christingle's on PhotoPeach

Monday 10 December 2012

Classopoly Reward.

On Friday FS2 got their Classopoly Reward!

The week before we got to have a turn at the game and roll the dice because as a class we had achieved over 97% attendance. When we rolled, we landed on a game of football as our reward. It was great fun! Look at our pictures below;


Football Classopoly Reward on PhotoPeach

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Handa's Surprise

This week FS2 have been enjoying the story of Handa's Surprise. You can listen to the story again yourself; here


Can you remember all the animals in the story? 

Which of the fruits have you tasted?

Monday 19 November 2012

Mehndi Colour Mixing




Last week we celebrated Diwali and tried out Mehndi ourselves and this week we are exploring colour mixing. 

In this game you can practise your colour mixing skills whilst decorating a hand with Mehndi.

See what colours you can mix by dragging them to the palette and then click on the particular part of the hand you want to decorate in that colour.

Saturday 17 November 2012

Diwali Celebrations This Week!

 


What a fantastic week FS2 have had this week celebrating Diwali; The Festival of Light. 




We have learnt the story of Diwali. 

You can listen to the story of Rama and Sita again here.

In Class we have made Rangoli designs in the dough, we have made cards and lanterns and decorated biscuits.

On Monday Miss Kitchen decorated our hands with Mehndi, using henna to create the designs.

All week we have been painting traditional diya lamps, they came all the way from India!

On Thursday Yashvi's mum came in to celebrate Diwali with us. 
She re-told us the story of Diwali and brought some traditional Indian sweets for us to try but our most favourite part of the afternoon was dressing up in the traditional Indian clothes that she brought in for us. We didn't want to take them off! The girls loved the shiny mirrors and sparkly sequins on the skirts. Here are some photo's of us dressing up.











 Mrs Cameron enjoyed dressing up too. Here she is with Meika wearing a traditional sari made from pure silk.


We are very grateful to Yashvi's mum for coming in to FS2 to teach us about different aspects of Diwali. She really made the week for us and we got to experience so many new things. Thank you!

Sunday 11 November 2012

Counting on the IWB.



Last week the children enjoyed playing this game on the Interactive Whiteboard. 

Scroll down to the game called 'Fish Tank'

Fish Tank

To play; read the number and catch the same amount of fish using the net. Then click the button to check. Have fun fishing!

Thursday 8 November 2012

Our Autumn Nature Walk

Today we had a lovely afternoon. We went on a Nature Walk through Skelton Woods. We saw lots of interesting things and thought you would like to see some of our photographs from the walk.







We looked at so many things and tried to take as many photographs as possible.












We are very grateful to the mums who came to help us on the walk.






Lots of children spotted the birds nest high in the tree. Jayden explained why the birds build them so high up, 'so no one can take the eggs.'






Mrs Frisby described this tree as being, 'copper coloured.'




Korby reminded us why we shouldn't touch berries, 'These are poisonous!'




We thought of lots of different reasons why a tree might need cutting down into logs.






We saw so many different coloured leaves. 






Lots of children wanted to feel the bumpy bark of this tree. We decided it must be very old.




Lots of children had not seen holly before. We were careful not to touch the sharp points.

  






This tree had leaves of every colour!







Can you see the creature in the tree?






Here he is again! We enjoyed watching him jumping through the trees, but we thought he might be scared of us.






Jake found all the different shapes and colours of the leaves, very interesting.







We walked back to school along the path at the side of the road. We were very sensible crossing the road.

Bonfire Night Celebrations

This week we have been celebrating Bonfire Night during our afternoon sessions. We have talked about the fireworks we have seen and the sounds they made. We have learnt about the history of Bonfire Night and what Guy Fawkes tried to do! Most importantly, we learnt how to stay safe on Bonfire Night. We also had fun making these fantastic firework explosion paintings and added glitter to them, to give them that extra sparkle! Can you find yours?


Tuesday 23 October 2012

Friday 19 October 2012

FS2 have been practising their jolly phonic sounds this week.


 



FS2 have been busy making patterns this week!



We used the iwB to make patterns using picture. We used compare bears, and small construction materials to make patterns too! We even printed patterns using paints and shapes! 





Sunday 14 October 2012

The Gingerbread Man

See some of the activities we did linked to The Gingerbread Man.