On Monday we wrote our own stories about a space adventure. We watched The Pink Panther for inspiration and came up with our own word bank to help us. Some of the words we used were;
 ............. spaceship, aliens, jet pack, planets, teleporting, robots, planets, trapped, saving the world, rescue, disguised, flying, craters, engine, meteors, villain......

We discussed Stir Up Sunday, a date in the diary to start making Christmas Puddings so they taste yummy for Christmas. Some of the class wanted to go home and ask their parents if they could make their own! Here are some calorie free collage puddings..... 

Some of the class wanted to share their work; we have been working on addition to 20, 50 or 100 this week, block graphs and mental maths. 

For Health and Well-being this week we read the book Odd Dog Out. We discussed that it was ok to be different from others in your class and what these differences could be (hair colour, height, skin colour, if good at maths or not...). We designed our own characters for the book. 

Like in the Look Up book (from book week), we discussed what we would take into space with us. We filled our rucksacks with ten things.

During Creativity Friday last week we created clay diyas for Diwali. This week we painted them and hopefully they are being used with tea lights at home. 

In writing we have been looking at acrostic poems. As a class we decided we would pick Saturn for the topic of our poem. Here is our class poem and a photo of M’s creative work. 

Stars are far away.
And Saturn is too.
The sixth planet from the sun.
Up in the sky you can see Saturn.
Rings of rocks and ice.
November you can see me clearly.

With Miss Stirling this week we have been creating our own alien pictures.

J wanted to show his picture of the class and his astronaut that he drew during Creativity Friday this week. 

Today we have been looking at some tricky words in spelling and picked bubble writing or rainbow writing to help us.

In maths, we have been identifying 3D shapes, A prism is a new shape that we have been learning about. 

In topic, we have been making our own 3D rocket after watching a Space Shuttle launch video. Here is a photo of our work. Miss Wilson is really impressed with our cutting skills and  problem solving when we were building our 3D rockets.

​O wanted to share his Space picture that he created in his free time this week. 

We used our knowledge about shapes to create our own shape rockets this afternoon. Some of the class wanted to share their creations. We are ready to travel to the moon!

In ICT, we used a search engine to look at images of the moon, Jupiter, galaxies, Mercury and Neptune.

This morning we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have looked at cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, prisms and cones. 

We enjoyed looking around the classroom and outside in the playground  for the different shapes. We unfortunately could not find a pyramid - until after lunch! The nursery has a tepee!!

See our slideshows below - the first one has cubes and cuboids, the second has spheres, cylinders and cones.

We have started our new topic of space this week. We would like to learn about:

• The planets – size/colours
• The stars
• Gravity
  
• The Moon
• Rockets – how do we get there?
• How long does it take to get to the moon?

We watched a video from the International Space Station and really enjoyed it (it was cool....).

We know that kings and queens live in castles but we have learnt that knights, princesses and princes do too! 

We have been learning to use symmetry to create the other half of a picture. 

We have been learning about shapes and their different lines of symmetry. We know that symmetry means the mirror image and that they are the same on both sides. We will be experimenting and learning more about symmetry and shapes this term. 

We have continued to learn about colour mixing but this time only focusing on two colours. Miss Wilson picked out black and white paint for us.

We learnt by gradually adding white to a colour we make different shades. As we used black in painting today, we ended up with different greys. 

This is us listening well to instructions and some of our final pieces of art.