Tuesday 24th March 2020

Good morning Squirrels. I hope you all had a good weekend and enjoyed the sunshine.

I have some good news - the alien that crash landed at school has been seen around Plaistow. Yesterday it was spotted by the pond! Now that we now know what it looks like we need to spread the word. For your English today I would like you to create a wanted poster. It will need a picture of the alien and some writing describing it. Don’t forget you will need to tell people where to take the alien if they find it.

For the last 2 weeks we have been looking at measuring in maths. I would like you to continue practicing this. Today I would like to find out who is better at building towers - Squirrel class or Mums and Dads? You could build your towers out of different materials e.g. lego or recycling. Once finished you will need to measure your tower and see if it is taller than your parent’s tower.

Our word of the week is ‘the’. How many sentences can you think of using ‘the’?

Our sound of the week is ‘ay’ - may I play? How many words can you think of that contain this sound?

Just a few useful things for parents: Joe Wicks is providing a live PE session everyday on his youtube channel.

Also RWI (our phonics program) will also be running live lessons on their youtube channel - Ruth Miskin Training. We are very good at our phonics in Squirrel Class and I therefore recommend the set 2 and set 3 videos.

World Book Day

We had a great afternoon building dens and sharing books with our Year 4 partners.

Beegu

We are looking at the story of Beegu. It is about a lost alien called Beegu who crash landed on Earth. Beegu found that the adults were not very friendly but the children were. It had a lovely ending because Beegu finally found her family.

The Alien Hunt!

An alien spaceship has crash landed in the environmental area. We saw the spaceship. It was all broken up into pieces. There was lots of bubble wrap, foam, a cone and long tubes . We followed the green slime trail. It went over the gate into the field. We wanted to know if the alien was still around. Please can you keep an eye open for a lost alien which leaves green slime.

Dinosaurs

Today we made a big dinosaur nest for our eggs. We collected lots of sticks for the edge of our nest and put leaves in the middle to make it soft for the eggs.

PE

We have been looking at balance and movement in PE. This week we got our new wall bars out. They are great fun and we practiced lots of different ways of moving across the bars and balancing on the beam. We also had some other floor equipment out to practice balancing on different parts of our bodies.

Dinosaur Mess!

We are making dinosaur eggs. We dipped paper in glue and stuck it to the balloons. We had to cover the whole balloon in paper. Then we left them to dry. We had lots of fun and made lots of mess!

Clay Dinosaurs

We made dinosaurs out of clay. It was good fun. Once they were dry we painted them.

Gingerbread

We made gingerbread. We used brown sugar, margarine, golden syrup, ginger and flour. We mixed all the ingredients together and then rolled out the dough and cut shapes out. We had all sorts of different shaped cutters. We then iced them. We really enjoyed making gingerbread and can’t wait to taste them!

Story Writing

This week we have been working hard on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Today we wrote our own versions of the story. Miss Dore was very impressed with everyone’s writing.

Kenyan Cooking

We made ugali today with Mrs Jesse and Edward. We thought it was very yummy! We had some chicken with it too.

Superfood

This morning we tried healthy foods. We used our senses. We tried green tea, seaweed, blueberries, cranberries, sweet potato and avocado. The cranberries and the blueberries were our favorite.

Carnival

Yesterday we had our carnival. We learnt how to samba dance . It was quite hard especially when the music got faster. We played our musical instruments and we paraded around the school.

The Great Fire of London

We have been looking at the great fire of London. We built houses using cardboard boxes and set them up to look like a street in London. We were surprised at how quickly the fire spread. The wind also helped by blowing the fire to the next house. We said that the people of London would be very sad to watch their houses burn.

Maths

Today we measured the playground using meter sticks.

Maths

This week we have been measuring lots of different things, including each other.

Feeding the Lambs

Lambs

It was our turn to feed the new lambs today. We thought they drank their milk very quickly!

Great Fire of London

We have been building London out of cardboard boxes.

Special Visitor

We had a tea party with a special visitor. We had cucumber sandwiches and cake. We learnt some songs and some games.