Year 6 are learning to combine their ukulele skills with their song writing skills. In pairs, they have started to write their own song with ukulele accompaniment. I’m looking forward to hearing them once they’re performance ready!
Author: Sarah Crust
The Nursery children have been enjoying accompanying their favourite nursery rhymes by playing a range of percussion instruments. They have been trying hard to keep a steady beat.
We have been investigating a new adding strategy where we add to the next 10 and then on from there. We used a tens frame and counters first, then tried to represent it on a number line afterwards.
We have really enjoyed making loombands in skills academy. We learnt to make the ‘fishtail’ style loombands using a special board. Here are some of the bracelets we made!
We have been continuing our work on Little Red Reading Hood and went on a woodland walk around the school. We explored different parts of the school to help us come up with adventurous vocabulary using our 5 senses. We then turned those ideas into phrases using alliteration! Some of the alliterative phrases we thought of were; ‘Ripe, red raspberries’,
We walked around school on Monday finding the best places to sit down and read a book. These were our favourites! Our work in English for the next few weeks is based upon a picture book called Little Red Reading Hood who adores reading books and does so wherever she can.
Year 2 were learning about the Gruffalo over the first couple of weeks of term, so we decided to make some Gruffalo toadstool pizzas in Design and Technology. They went down a treat!
Year 2 are creating graphic scores to compose simple pieces of music using untuned percussion instruments. They had to consider which instruments should be playing at a time and how to organise these on the score template. They are looking forward to performing them!
What an amazing end to the year with Gareth. 2C followed a rhythm of jumping, stamping and hitting swimming noodles to accompany Believer and A Little Bit of Love. They showed some excellent timing, coordination and strength!