Bluebirds have been busy creating pencil sketch replicas of Stone Age cave paintings today.
Stone Age Sketching
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Our new school councillors
This week, Bluebirds talked about voting fairly to choose our school councillors for this academic year. The rules were:
1) Vote for one boy and one girl
2) Do not vote for yourself
3) Do not ask others to choose you / just choose your best friend.
4) Keep your votes private
We decided what qualities were needed as these children need to be responsible role models with good listening and communication skills. Before we voted, we checked who would not want to do the role as not everyone necessarily wants to do this job!
Congratulations to Lexi and Dylan!
Understanding that giving does not have to be material
Bluebirds heard the story of The Rainbow Fish today. There were lots of messages within the story which everyone discussed:
Millie: We decided that friendship is more important than owning lots of possessions like toys. You could be lonely and have no one to share your toys with.
Charlie: You can be happy without having lots of things/money.
Jessica: Sharing makes us all get along together better.
Paige: If you both share something it is fair and equal.
Blessed: I think the Rainbow Fish was very rude ignoring the other fish because he looked different and thought he was better than the others.
Bluebirds thought about what they had a lot of and whether they would be able to share it.
There was allsorts of collections including 1ps, lids, chocolate, teddies, dolls, shoes, toys, clothes and sweets!
Our Solar System
Bluebirds recalled their lesson last week, where they made a representation of the planets’ distances from the sun. This week they have used their knowledge to construct their own models. Great concentration Bluebirds! You took pride in your work too. They look fantastic!
Place value – Comparing numbers
Bluebirds have been busy securing their knowledge in place value and have been dealing with hundreds, tens and ones. They have been using equipment to represent and compare amounts. They have been looking at numbers represented in different ways including place value counters, dienes, part while models and number tracks today.
Learning about feelings
Mrs Parry read the class a story about a Finnish boy called Sami who was starting a new school. Afterwards, Bluebird considered all his different feelings throughout the story. The children each had a feeling word which they held up at the relevant part of the story to show their understanding of his feelings.
Lily, Lexi and Blessed shared with the class how they felt when they joined Bells Farm. They were also excited at the start and felt a bit anxious and nervous. They were glad they were made to feel welcome by the other class members and could remember who was their special friend, assigned to look after them during their first few days, whilst they settled in.
Video: Learning times tables whilst exercising
Bluebirds enjoyed an energetic practise of their three times tables whilst exercising in class today!
Questioning a text
In Guided Reading we are questioning a text to improve our understanding about what we are reading.
Roald Dahl Day
Today we learnt all about Roald Dahl as he is one of our authors in Bluebirds. Today would have been his 102nd Birthday. We tried to list all the books we knew he had written before learning all about him as a person.
Dylan – He was an RAF pilot in World War and was in a crash.
Jessica– He invented a medical valve to help his son
Lexi – He was married twice
Ava – He had to test chocolate bars at school which inspired Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Tanatswa – He was 74 when he died
He is buried in Great Missenden which is in Buckinghamshire.
Stone Age proportional timeline
Bluebirds showed real concentration and perseverance this afternoon, when they each made a proportional timeline about the Stone Age. This helped up to see just how long ago this happened! It was interesting to see quite a few events all happening within 20,000 years which is a relatively short time on our very long timeline!
