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Seaside art attack

We are coming to the end of our seaside topic this week and to celebrate all of the work we have done we created our own seaside ‘art attack’ in the classroom today.

First, we decided what we might use to create the sea, sand and sky and then we thought about what extre things we could have on our picture and what we could use to create them.

Once we’d gathered everything we needed, we set to work. We worked really well as a team and all had some very creative ideas to come up with a very impressive finished product.

What do you think?

Oh we did like to be beside the seaside.

Year 1 and 2 donned their sunhats, sun-cream and flip-flops for a day on the beach last week and oh what fun we had!

Once we arrived, we set off on the long downhill trek to the beach and settled ourselves on the sand to have a play and eat our lunch.

Unfortunately, a particularly vicious seagull stole Mrs Maqbool’s sandwich!

After lunch, it was time to get ourselves wet and have a paddle. We all had a great splash around and then had a quick change as the tide was coming in.

Once we were all dry, we moved the other side of the beach where the tide wasn’t in yet and where the ice-cream van was parked. Everybody had an ice-cream with a flake. The most popular flavour was mint-choc-chip whilst the teachers favoured cinder toffee. Yum!

It was a beautiful day and we were all sad to have to leave the beach to climb up the hill to the coach again to head back home. I don’t know about Year 1, but Year 2 were surprisingly lively all the way back home. Hopefully, they were then tired out for bed at the end of the day.

27 June 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

I can answers questions about a text.

Have a look at the text you have been given in your homework book. Read it carefully and then answer the questions on the sheet.

This homework is due on Wednesday 02 July 2014.

27 June 2014

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix able.

Words with the suffix able are often incorrectly spelt with the suffix ible. A key to distinguishing between these two endings is that dropping able usually leaves a generally recognisable word, eg agreeable; dropping ible usually leaves a stem word, eg possible.

27 June 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

Understanding what we read is essential and that is what we were thinking about in our English lesson today.  All of the children have a text in their homework books with some questions.  Read the text with your child and then look at the questions and see if they can find the answers in the text.  Sometimes the questions are multiple choice – they choose the correct answer; sometimes there is space for a written answer.

Please encourage your child to go back to the text and find the answers rather than just guess.

Homework is due to be handed in by Wednesday 02 July 2014.

27 June 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 04 July 2014.

Farewell to Nothing

Today, we said farewell to Nothing by having a celebration of the time he has spent with us.  There were party games and food and a chance for the children to say a message to Nothing before he left to return to his family.

• ‘Hope you have a nice time with your family.’
• ‘Hope your family look after you.’
• ‘I hope you have enjoyed visiting our school.’
• ‘I’m sorry that you are leaving.’

The children have thoroughly enjoyed the Nothing project and have shown great understanding and learning.

• ‘I know we don’t pick things up and eat them.’
• ‘We need a healthy diet.’
• ‘There are things we need and things we want.’
• ‘Don’t talk to strangers.’
• ‘All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines.’

Thanks for coming to visit us, Nothing.

Seaside sing-a-long

Year 1 have been getting in the mood for our upcoming seaside trip with a seaside-themed singing session.  A sailor went to sea, sea, sea is one of our favourites and Mia even taught us the clapping rhyme to go with the song – great partner work.

Are you a recycling hero?

To celebrate Recycling Week and Le Grand Depart, Leeds City Council is giving away a fantastic prize to one of Leeds’ recycling, reducing and reusing heroes.

Sharing a recycling ‘selfie’ could win tickets for two of the best seats in Leeds to watch Le Grand Depart, and inspire the rest of the city to recycle for Leeds, too. Just take a quick picture of any way you reduce, reuse and recycle to save waste from landfill and cash for our city’s services, then post it on facebook.com/leedswastedocs or tweet them to us at @LeedsWasteDocs.

It could be a photograph of your child recycling waste electrical equipment through our WEEE Bank or using the schools recycling bins… anything that keeps waste from going to landfill sites. Whether you’re doing this for the first time, or you’re a committed recycler – we want to see and share your efforts.

Closing date is early next week so get snapping and sharing.

20 June 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on 27.06.14.