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Donaldson Class
Teachers: Miss Bell & Mrs Shimwell
HLTA:  Miss Naylor

We are delighted to welcome you to Donaldson Class. We are the youngest class in school with a mixture of Reception and Year 1 children. We are inquisitive, Curious,  determined and successful and we can't wait to show you all of the amazing learning that takes place in our Donaldson environment. ....come on in!
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 (Summer 2 2022) we are reading...

Funny Bones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
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The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
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SEESAW
SEESAW PARENTS GUIDE
PHONICS GUIDE FOR PARENTS
P.E. DAYS

Funny Bones - Summer 2 2022

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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Stone Age - Summer 1 2022

This half Term we are learning about the Stone Age. Get your spears, flint  and animal skins ready as we journey through the Stone Age. Donaldson Class will be using the text Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson to ignite a curiosity about how people lived in the Stone Age and what animals lived in the Stone Age? We will use the library and technology to research questions that we have as well as developing our skills as Historians by handling replica Stone Age artefacts. Watch out for Stone Age cave paintings appearing on the walls of our outdoor area! 
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Beautiful India - Spring 2 2022

During Spring Term 2, our topic is all about Amazing India. We will be exploring Indian culture, Finding out about where India is in the world and learning about Indian animals. We are excited to be taking part in an Indian dance workshop on Tuesday 8th March. 

Wild Weather

We 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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Music Wall

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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Tip, Tap, tickle-tickle, bip, bap, BONG!


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. 

Christmas 2021

Donaldson Class have enjoyed taking part in lots of Christmas themed activities over the past two weeks. As well as developing our expressive arts and performance skills whilst preparing and performing our Nativity play, we have also been exploring the big question "Why Do Christians Celebrate Christmas?" as part of our RE learning. 

We have used the Talk 4 Writing structure to learn the story of The First Christmas to help us to understand why Christians celebrate Christmas. We also explored how other religions celebrate at this time of year too. 

OUR TOPIC

AUTUMN 2 - BRITIAN IN THE BLITZ!

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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!

Lest We Forget

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?

Ration Books.

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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? 

The Enormous Turnip 

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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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