A visitor for Key Stage 1
On Thursday, Year 1 and Year 2 had a surprise visitor in class. Florence Nightingale popped in to see Year 1 and hear all about what they had learned that afternoon about her life and she spent most of the afternoon teaching Year 2. The children were very interested to hear all about hospital conditions when Florence worked during the Crimean War and couldn’t believe it when she didn’t even know what lights or pens were!
It’s half-term…
…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week. It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?
“We’re eating a balanced meal.”
Last week, Year 2 were introduced to some new friends who helped us know how to eating healthily. We met Donny Dairy, Colin Carbohydrate, Victor Vitamin, Peter Protein and Freddy Fats. First, we sorted different foods into the five food groups.
Then, we planned our own balanced meal by choosing
- three items of food from Victor Vitamin and Colin Carbohydrate (the food groups we should eat most of)
- two items of food from Donny dairy and Peter Protein
- one or no types of food from Freddy fat.
On Friday, we made our meal and all ate a healthy, balanced meal together.
When asked who had enjoyed their meal, here was the response!
Let’s all go shopping!
Today, Year 2 were all rich and went on a big sweet shop in our maths lesson. We had to find out how much the items on our shopping list were and then find the correct coins we needed to be able to pay for them. We really enjoyed using the coins (but were very disappointed when we realised they were only plastic).
After talking as a class, we decided it would be really good practice to try our new skills out with real money when going to the shops. Why not ask us to find out how much something is and let us see if we can pick out the coins we need to pay for it?
Doctor Doctor
A real doctor came to visit us at school today. She spoke to us about her job as a doctor and she told us how we can keep ourselves healthy. We were able to use her stethoscope – did you know that if you listen to your tummy with a stethoscope you can still hear your heartbeat as well? We discovered that our tummies make very strange noises! A few of us had our pulses checked, fortunately we were all very healthy!
“Wow!” said Miss Rushbrooke.
We have been looking at a number of different sentence skills as part of our narrative topic and today we focussed on speech. Working in pairs, we arranged our sentences so that the speech was punctuated correctly. We could then practise writing this as a sentence on our whiteboards, checking that we didn’t miss out any important punctuation.
New vocab!
Reporting clause : identifies the speaker. It can be found before, after or in the middle of speech.
- “Good morning, how are you all today?” said Miss Rushbrooke.
- Miss Rushbrooke said, “Good morning, how are you all today?”
- “Good morning,” said Miss Rushbrooke, “how are you all today?”
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.
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!