We spent an hour observing birds that came onto out school grounds. We had lots of birds visit our grounds because of our homemade bird feeders! We created a tally chart and took turns observing all the different kinds of birds that visited. We sent the results to the RSPB!
We watched a short video in English and then spoke about how William Darling was treat very different to Grace Darling. The children debated about if it was to happen today what would happen and would it have had such an impact in todays worlds.
In Birch we have been learning drawing skills and experimenting with different techniques when drawing lighthouses. We were really happy with the results.
We had a great, but messy, afternoon making our own bird feeders!
Today we watched part of The Lighthouse and then we got split into groups to recreate the scene we saw. We then had to predict what was going to happen in the rest of the story. We had to work together to come up with a concept and than act it out, rehearse it then…
Today Birch started their new Topic; Fog on the Tyne! We have been talking about the Tyne Bridge, St. James’ Park, Angel of the North etc. We had lots of fun finding all this information out about our local City. We spoke in groups about the images and identified any of them that we already…
We decorated our classroom tree last week. We had lots of fun decorating the tree!
Birch have been learning all about volcanoes. They made their own and had great fun making it erupt!
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Birch class. All children enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree. We are looking forward to the fun Christmas activities which are planned for next week.
Birch created a Greek restaurant where we had three tables and we tasted our flat bread, hummus, Spanakopita and Greek honey biscuits. We also made Greek lemonade which was very soar!