Donaldson Class
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PLANNING
Click the image below to see the planning for our topic this half term - Funny Bones 
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DONALDSON CLASS ARE READING
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This half term our topic is 'Funny Bones'.
In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street and in the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark house, and in the dark, dark house ... We will be practicing our sequencing, inference, vocabulary and predictions skills as well as continuing our fabulous phonics learning of set 2 and set 3 sounds. Our classroom has been set up with endless invitations to play and explore The Humnan Body, Bones, Xrays and much more. Keep checking Seesaw for our exciting learning. |
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Wild WeatherWe have been learning to tell the weather forecast for the United Kingdom. We have learnt lots of new scientific words and used them in our weather station play area.
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Our new music wall was installed this weekend and we have had great fun putting in to the test this week! Thankyou to FOLS for funding this fun piece of equipment! The children will love exploring the different sounds that they can create using the music wall.
Playing on the music wall with help the children to strengthen their eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills and improve their concentration. Children learn about cause and effect by experiencing how different actions result in different sounds, and stringing together several actions also results in a beautiful song! If you fancy tapping out a beat then come and have a try! |
Thanks to FOLS for funding our new outdoor music wall. We have had so much fun investigating sound and beats using our wall this week!
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In our Music this half term we are learning about percussion instruments. So far we have explored the sounds of each percussion instrument and worked hard to tap a steady beat. |
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Throughout Autumn 2 we will be learning all about life in World War II. We will be focussing on what life was like for the children at home and what food the children had to eat. We are excited to learn all about rationing and make some war time recipes!
Keep an eye out on this page for snippets of our fun learning! |
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We have been discussing the theme of Remembrance this week. The children have asked questions about why we celebrate Remembrance Day on 11th November each year. We have investigated the theme of peace and used computing and art to remeber the soldiers who faught for our freedom.
We took photographs of our hands on the ipads, printed them in black and white to represent the service men and women who have died and then painted bright red poppies on top of the photographs to represent the peace and life they have brought to us today. We think the pictures have turned out brilliantly, do you? |
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As part of our topic we have learnt all about food rationing during the Second World War. We each have a ration book that we have to present to Mrs Clemson every lunchtime in exhange for our dinner! No ration book - no dinner! |
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Our topic for Autumn 1 is Kings & Castles. We started our topic off by singing our new favourite song, 'Who Will Fight The Dragon?' Sing the words to the tune of 'London Bridge is Falling Down'. Can you march on the spot whilst you sing, too?
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This half term we will be having fun actinng out the story of The Enormous Turnip. Keep your eyes peeled for all of the fun activities we will be getting involved in.
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