Friday 24 November 2017

Rats, farm animals and journeys to the other side of the world

Hello everyone!
Its blog time which means 2 things, it's Friday and it's the end of another busy week in class RL.
What have we been up to I hear you cry (or was that just the voices in my head?). Well. We have had a visit from some rodents in our sand (no need to fear or call the exterminator they are plastic and harmless) and they have been VERY popular!
An old favourite has been in much use this week.. The farm! Who doesn't love a play with a farm animal? A lot of time went into building up different farms and arranging the animals into various groups. It has been great fun but it was not without 'mild peril' when a low flying aircraft came past! (You may be able to see on one of the pictures) don't worry, all was fine when we discovered it was dropping off supplies, phew!
Animal antics aside we had a journey to........*cue dramatic music* ...The other side of school....... THE JUNIOR OFFICE! It may not sound like much but it takes a while with grown up legs to get from our class to the junior office so with little reception sized legs it's a mammoth trek! The children hadn't been there before and were a little awestruck at the GIGANTIC children who inhabit that part of school. They were absolutely brilliant and stayed quiet as we crept past classes of the giants working hard at their desks and they behaved impeccably. They were so good their behaviour was commented on by all the grown ups we passed along the way, WELL DONE CLASS RL!! :D

Just one more thing before I go (did I mention it was Friiiidayyyyy?) another congratulations goes to class RL for winning the attendance trophy again, thanks to the children for being so good at coming to school and thanks to the grown ups who bring them :)

Until next week... (Unless you are coming for PARENTS CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY DAY next Friday)... Good byeeeeeeee

Miss Latham and Mrs Lewis










Thursday 16 November 2017

What a lot of Pollock's!

Hello everybody
It's that time of week again. A quick sneaky peek into your little ones school life here in class RL.
Oh the weeks really are flying by now, it will soon be time to get our CHRISTMAS heads on! Infact there has already been talk of the nativity (yeaaayyyy, I bagsy being Mr Poppy!) Aargh are there REALLY only 5 more Monday's until we break up?? So, before I go into a blind panic about fitting no in Christmas shopping lets get back to this week and what we have been up to....

We learned about Jackson Pollock creating Action Paintings, then got VERY messy making and naming some of our own (pics included). Many thanks to Mr Ison for his help with this and huge apologies to whoever does the washing in your house.. Oopsy :/
The JUNK MODELLING has started and the glue is rapidly disappearing BUT the children are having a great time filling the class with their fantastic models and pictures. I bet you can't wait until they start making their way to your houses although you might want to consider clearing a room, some of them are rather large!
Alongside sticking, glueing, painting and creating the children have been up to the usual antics in and out of the class. If you've seen the secret life of 4 year olds on TV lately you'll have a bit of an idea except think slightly less staged experiences for camera and more free flow child initiated play as seen in the calpol adverts.

You've heard about our week now have a look, I'm off to see if I can buy Christmas online.

Until next week...

Miss Latham and Mrs Lewis




Friday 10 November 2017

Remembrance, dressing up and the usual antics

Hello everybody
Another week has flown by (helped by the fact it was only 4 days for most of us.. Sorry teachers)
As always it has been a super busy week filled with the usual classroom antics of building, painting, creating, role playing, phonics, number work, reading and a whole lot more too, no wonder we are all tired by home time on a Friday!
Once we had discussed our holiday with all the firework parties, events and activities everybody had been doing the focus moved onto Remembrance Day. We were invited to watch a class assembly in the hall about the war and have painted poppies in the classroom. Today everyone looked fantastic in their outfits (thank you for all the effort that went into that!) and we had a busy day learning about what happened. You may hear stories of sirens going off and hiding under tables. They are all true, the children did hide under tables, make gas masks and paint poppies although I don't think we'll encourage them to hide under there again, my knees aren't as good as they used to be!hope you enjoy the pictures, as always please feel free to make comments.

Until next week, stay calm and carry on.

Miss Latham and Mrs Lewis




What a wonderful class

For the last time... hello everybody! It is usually at the start of a blog I say something like 'oo hasn't this week gone by quickly...