Fir had great fun today getting in the mood for Christmas! They carefully cut out and put together an advent calendar retelling the Christmas story. After their Christmas journey at St Nicholas church this week they enjoyed picking out the different parts of the story. 

Today we had the best time ever! We walked to St Nicolas church and took part in lots of different activities when learning about the Christmas story. We used our geographical skills to help us find the church first. Then we made crowns for kings. We met the three wise men, three shepherds and three kings! We sang songs with the priest and then we watched baby Jesus show us the Christmas story.  The church were so kind that they gifted us a book and told us that we were the most well behaved class! 

The children have had a fantastic day completing their Tudor houses. I'm sure you've all seen them by now and we're sure you'll agree just how brilliant they are!

We had a special visitor today during our WOW day! The firefighters from Red Watch came to see us. They told us about their job and all the special equipment which they use. We talked about how fire engines are different now to in 1666. We then asked them questions about fire safety and afterwards we had a tour of their fire engine! They even put the siren for us. We had the best day ever! 

Fun WOW Day!

Samuel Pepys told us all about The Great Fire of London by writing about it in his diary. We began to write our own diarys using a feather pencil. We could write the diary as Samuel Pepys or we could be ourselves but back in 1666!

We have had a fantastic WOW day so far! We have made our own Samuel Pepys diaries and we even made our own quills! We then retold the events from The Great Fire of London. On each page of our diary, we carefully thought about how the fire spread quickly across London. We then chose our favourite sentence and used ink to write up our writing using a quill. We have completed lots of other activties too but this activity is our favourite so far! 

This week the children have been experimenting with materials. They were asked to find out which materials would be best for a waterproof coat. They really enjoyed testing them all out!

Elder Class have been busy writing poems. The children choose their favourite poem and then read it to the rest of the class. They read their poems with clarity and expression.

We have enjoyed learning about question poems this week. We picked a theme such as Santa, planes or planets and then put our questions together in a list. We then practised reading our poems aloud to each other. We were inspired by Michael Rosen who performs his poems with lots of exciting actions and expressions. 

We discussed poetry and identified a shape poem about balloons, a list poem about cats sleeping and a rhyming poem about cakes. We loved looking at these poems and noticed that some poems had lines grouped together into verses. We understood that commas are used in lists. We can't wait to learn more about poems and write our own poems at the end of the week!