Learning Partners

Learning Partners are a very important part of Rowde's learning. The idea of changing partners, groups and tables can be quite daunting at first for everyone, including staff but it is an excellent addition to our learning. It means children learn to socialise, work and share with lots of different children rather that sit on the same table or work with the same group for all their learning. I think it is a super model for learning!

Part of working together is saying thank you to your learning partner at the end of the week, this is something we have only just started as we needed to build up to recording our thank yous and take time to discuss what it means.

Here are our photos of Great Bear saying thank you, the photos are then stuck in the back of our curriculum books as our record.

Table of the Day Fun

Mrs Latham-Warde and I are really enjoying rewarding our lovely class with "Table of the Day". This little award does not take place every day as the children are not always in their table groups enough on some days for us to award the title fairly. However when we do the children enjoy time out of the classroom having fun, usually outside with Mrs Latham-Warde's Pip the hedgehog.

Here is last week's groups, finding different colours outside and starting to organise our garden plot, we hope to plant lots of vegetables and wild flowers.

Are we still learning about dinosaurs?

Hello Great Bear Parents, Carers and Friends,

After lots of discussions at Parent's Evening, I thought I would post a quick note on the blog! Great  Bear Class are still currently learning about Dinosaurs as the children have yet to find another topic that inspires them and we still had lots of learning and things to do that we couldn't squeeze in before halt term.

If the children do not decide on a topic themselves over the next week, I will gently suggest some ideas and we will go from there. It would be very helpful if you could have a little chat a home about ideas for our next learning adventure!

Brilliant Home Learning

Great Bear Class have been working hard on their Home Learning with lots of brilliant dinosaurs being brought in to share with us. Here are the latest wonderful array of dinosaurs.

Whizz, Pop, Twinkle and Bang!

Great Bear Class have taken a little break from Dinosaurs to look at Fireworks and Bonfire Night. We have spent a long time talking about adjectives and onomatopoeia, what those words meant and finding examples of them linked to fireworks.

We watched a film of a firework display in Japan and talked about what we could see and hear, even though the crowd was Japanese we could still understand how much they were enjoying the display from listening to their cheers, claps and ooooos!

We then created a word bank of firework adjectives and used it to help us write are own repeating poem and shape poem. We looked at other children's poems to give us inspiration.

We also created onomatopoeia word bubbles and firework art using the computer and painting with a fork!

Here is some of our lovely work, the rest of it will be on display ready for Parent's Evening!

Rob the Nest

On Wednesday 4th of November, Great Bear Class had a PE lesson with specalist PE coach Mr Kingwell from Up and Under. Great Bear Class have started a term of learning Multi-Skills with Mr Kingwell. We played "Rob the Nest" to develop tatics, speed, changing direction and obsevational skills. Everyone was put into teams and it was a relay race to take balls from the nest. Then 2 guardians came to protect the nest and if you were tagged you had to put your ball back and return to your line, it was great fun and Mrs Dummett wanted to join in too!

Shape Dinosaurs

On Tuesday 3rd November some of Great Bear's parents joined us for some Family Learning. We made shape dinosaurs. Here are our finished dinos.