Funky Fingers!
Reception had fun developing their fine motor skills this week. Fine motor activities are essential to help your child develop the skills needed for good handwriting. Why don’t you try some of these activities at home?
- use padlocks and keys – how quickly can your child unlock them?
- clothes pegs – how many can your child peg around a box in one minute?
- how many small beads can (s)he pick up in one minute using tweezers?
- mix pasta and dried peas – can your child separate them using tweezers?
- how many bubble wrap bubbles can (s)he pop?
Don’t forget that gross motor skills such as climbing, carrying, pulling and pushing are important too!
Get set for a new park run
A new free weekly 2km run at Roundhay Park has been set up after a £1500 grant was provided by local councillors. The Roundhay Junior Park Run will take place every Sunday morning and is open to children aged between four and fourteen. Parkrun is a worldwide organisation which sets up and manages free weekly timed runs in parkland surroundings. Fancy a go yourself…? There is also a weekly 5km run every Saturday at 9am.
Feel the benefits of being active in Leeds
Leeds Let’s Get Active is a programme of free activities from October to December 2013. Free gym and swim sessions will be available across all Leeds City Council leisure centres from 30 September 2013. Other activities such as walking and running as well as family-based activities are also available at locations in the city. You can now register online to find out more information on what is available, where and when on the Leeds Let’s Get Active activity programme.
With free swim and gym at Scott Hall leisure centre and health walks at Meanwood there is plenty on offer in the local area.
How high can you jump?
Amazing star jumps in our gym lesson this week.
Marvellous measures
A week’s learning about measures ended with lots of measuring of arms, legs and heads. As part of the big topic, Doctor Doctor, measurements of our bodies were compared. Measuring length can be done using non-standard units and standard units. The week was started by measuring with paperclips, dinosaurs and highlighters, then home-made tape measures were used to practise the actual concept of using a tape and then the standard units of centimetres and metres were introduced.
- How many centimetres in a metre?
- Who had the biggest hand span?
- How do you measure a hand span?
…all questions that you can ask Year 1.
Code Club starts at Moortown
It was the taster session for the new computer programming after school club today. Led by the very talented and inspiring Linda Broughton, the club uses Scratch to introduce children to computer programming. Over the next few weeks, the children will be creating their own games and animations which they can then upload to the Internet and finish at home or just enjoy playing them! The club takes place in The Space which was previously the ICT suite. This new area allows each child to have their own laptop so they can take their games in the direction that they want to whilst still allowing them to chat to friends and share what they are doing. This club is about inspiring a love of computing in children and celebrating their creativity – but most of all, it’s about having fun!
Measuring George’s Marvellous Medicine
We have been learning about measures in maths and today we made our very own marvellous medicine. We put all sorts of horrible things in; like engine oil, plant juice, hair growth ointment and lots more! Our measuring was very accurate and we all worked well in our teams to help each other.
Miss Rushbrooke tasted it!
Nothing has happened to her yet, I wonder if she’ll be any different tomorrow?
Yoga time
Having discussed ways for us to calm down if we are nervous, scared, excited or giddy, we tried out a few yoga positions. Take a look at their names, we found them really useful when remembering which position was which.
Maybe you could try it yourself? We felt very calm and relaxed afterwards!
Identifying the parts of a sentence
In a recent literacy lesson, we were learning about the parts of a sentence. In these pictures we were identifying the adverbs and verbs on a sentence.
Year 3 Super Readers!
Here are some great Year 3 Readers:
We try to read as much as can in school. We need to be reading at home with an adult as often as we can. This will make us all super readers and help us to be super writers as well.