Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
3D shape fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Jan 2019 @ 4:59pm
This week we have been learning all about 3D shapes, looking for 2D shapes on them and using different words to describe them.
In English we are enjoying the story There’s a Lion in my cornflakes.We are making up our own stories using sea creatures.
Science work has been sorting animals into mammals, birds and reptiles.
Investigating 2D shapes, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th Jan 2019 @ 7:45pm
We have been learning a all about 2 D shapes - some familiar and some new ,pentagon and a hexagon .Describing them learning new words, vertex- vertices, curved. We enjoyed making shapes with cardboard strips and geo strips and sesigned shape pictures, counting how many of each sheep we had used.
Phonics in the sun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 12:34pm
We had a great phonics session enjoying the sunshine.We had to look for pebbles which had sounds on and write a word with that sound. We were fantastic!
Measuring fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2019 @ 3:21pm
We have been comparing the mass of objects in Maths.We had to find things heavier and lighter than a bag of sugar ,1kg, order some objects heavier to lightest using the balancing scales and then to find the smallest and tallest in our group but we were not allowed to go back to back or line up!
Happy New Year, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 3:36pm
The elephants have had a busy week making New Year promises, enjoying the story No thank you! In English Problem solving with numberlines and estimating steps to 50. In Maths,They also enjoyed throwing and catching yesterday afternoon and really had a lovely afternoon decorating a treasure box as part of our Jigsaw work.
Phew...busy,busy ,busy!!
They have come with a letter today outlining our learning for the half term ,which should help with project ideas.Remember it can be a hooky or interest too.
Have a lovely weekend😀
Gifts from year 1, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:12pm
A massive thank you to Mrs Pratten, Mrs Thomson and all of year 1 for our lovely gifts, from year 3.
Merry Christmas!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Dec 2018 @ 4:10pm
Mrs Thomson and I would like to wish all our fantastic Elephants a very happy Christmas.We hope you all have a wonderful time and see you in the New Year!
A big thank you for all our lovely gifts not expected much appreciated x
Christmas fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2018 @ 5:40pm
We had a busy morning filling the Princess Mary tins with goodies for the school. We are going to take them round tomorrow and tell classes what they are and why we have made them.
This afternoon was party, party , party! We had fun dancing, playing games and meeting Father Christmas.
A big thank you to the 6ear 6 DJ’s who were amazing Thank you !
Christmas dinner fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Dec 2018 @ 3:34pm
We all had a lovely Christmas lunch - 😋
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Dec 2018 @ 7:25pm
Today the elephants enjoyed a visit to the library for a Christmas story session . There were a couple involving Brussels sprouts and some interesting noises!
We also used our finger painting skills to make a 4 season tree for our calendars.
Class compliment fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Dec 2018 @ 3:45pm
Well done to the elephants who enjoyed their class compliment this afternoon. They bought in onesies,teddies, blankets and snuggled down to watch Horrid Henry,an interval of pop corn and lemonade made a great way to finish a busy week😊
A busy week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Dec 2018 @ 4:03pm
This week we have put on our Christmas play ,It’s a baby.We hope you all enjoyed it , we think we were amazing!
We have also been using grapes to help us with our fraction work, were able to share them out equally by sometimes having to chop them on half.
Today we used the large apparatus in our gymnastics lesson, we did some great travelling, jumping and rolling, we earnt a class compliment for our fantastic listening🙂
We are looking forward to our class compliment treat tomorrow!
Cooking Gingerbread people!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Nov 2018 @ 5:03pm
The elephants had a lovely morning baking gingerbread people, the small around school was wonderful!
We also designed our own gingerbread people , using icing, raisins, cherries , chocolate chips and smarties and are looking forward to decorating them tomorrow.
A big thank you to Elizabeth’s mum and Freya’s Grandma who were our amazing helpers😁
Chocolate maths😁, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 3:32pm
Today the elephants have been learning about halves and quarters using shapes and chocolate! We talked about halving and how it has to be 2 equal parts. We used Kitkats to show halves first and then quarters ( and yes we did eat them!)
It was lovely to then hear the children at lunchtime talking about half a sandwich, half a pizza and even discussing quarters.Elephants you really are fantastic!!
Finger painting fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 3:34pm
The elephants have really been inspired by Van Gogh.They added to their sketch books on Friday and had a go today at painting the real thing! They were all very proud of their artwork and quite rightly so.
This morning we enjoyed being outside and role playing the story of the gingerbread man.We split into groups, decided who was who and then sequenced the events. We showed our stories to the other groups. We were all fantastic!
Making repeating patterns, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 2:59pm
This week in Maths we are learning about repeating patterns.Today we had to make a pattern for our friend to copy and say what the rule was.We had fun!
As part of anti bullying week we talked about using kind words and wrote kind words about our friends. We put them in the kind jar and are reading a few everyday. Today Noah and Marley had kind words said about them.
We also had a vote as part of our parliament week learning , yesterday we learnt about the Houses of Parliament and an interesting fact about Big Ben. Ask your child if they can remember!
Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 3:44pm
The elephants have had a busy week of learning. Decorating pebbles and taking them to the church , which looked beautiful inside. Designing and making a glider. Well done to Sienna and Pippa who won the design competition and well done to Olive who flew hers the furthest in Year 1. We all added a handprint to make a beautiful poppy wreath.
Thank you for dresssing up and making your donations , you all looked fantastic😊
Fun learning -Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 8:17pm
Today we designed and decorated our gliders, we are going to test fly them tomorrow, they look great. Some lovely ideas.
We have also started to make our pebbles ready to put in the village on Friday, the elephants keep on surprising me with their fabulous and thoughtful ideas. well done!
Bonfire fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 6:40pm
Today we enjoyed finding out about Guy Fawkes and the gun powder plot, we learnt about the plan and sequenced pictures to show the events.
We discussed why we have fireworks and best of all enjoyed making our own sparklers. They were yummy!
Firework Poster WINNER, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Nov 2018 @ 8:49pm
We recieved some very exciting news on Friday in assembly.
Mrs Brown had a envelope containing tickets for Worden Park Bonfire this Monday, they had been dropped off by Lancashire Fire and Rescue service.
The posters we had entered into the competition had been judged against those from all other local schools and we are pleased to announce that Bronwen was a successful winner. We are very proud of her, she produced an amazing entry.
Parents in class, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 9:25pm
It was lovely to welcome our visitors to the elephant tribe yesterday to observe our Jigsaw lesson. We enjoyed showing you some of the activities we do and hope you enjoyed the session and taking part in some of the games.
Our lesson was to think about how we are similar to others and we started to make some gingerbread men showing this on T-shirts. We think they look fantastic.😊
Firework Poster Competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 7:34am
Thanks you to everyone who entered the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Firework and Bonfire Safety competition.
They have been submitted to Leyland. Fingers crossed we have a winning entry amoung us.
I was very impressed with the entries.
Fun at the Brickcroft, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Oct 2018 @ 5:48pm
We had a lovely walk to the Brickcroft this morning. We were great at spotting signs of Autumn and found some lovely coloured leaves. We fed the hungry ducks and then we had a feed too ( of course the chocolate biscuit was the best bit!)
A big thank you to all our helpers who came along too.
Exploring Longton , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Oct 2018 @ 3:50pm
We enjoyed helping Jigsaw Jack find out all about Longton today, we even went to the park.
We are looking forward to telling him all about the Brickcroft tomorrow and feeding the ducks of course!
Harvest 2018, by Mrs Brown
Date: 14th Oct 2018 @ 11:56am
Thank you to everybody who joined us for the Harvest Service and also for the generous donations. All the food items have now been shared out between local residents, resdidential homes and the food bank.
