Welcome back after the Christmas break from all in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We had a great break and wrote about what we got up to in the first week back!
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We drew lovely pictures and coloured them in with our silky pastels!
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We wrote new year’s resolutions in English and designed party hats to celebrate the new year!
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In Visual Arts, we created Fabric and Fibre pictures from various scraps of material…
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In SESE, we learned all about water and ways of conserving water in our everyday lives. The children designed posters to promote water conservation.
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We also discussed floating and sinking, made our own boats, tested them out and then adapted them to try to make them float!
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We created colourful aquariums with brightly coloured fish…
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We created colourful parrots using our handprints….
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We learned all about China in Geography and created our own mini-project on this huge country!
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We wrote acrostic poems in English entitled “WINTER”…
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We are enjoying dance lessons with Michelle from Dancewise Academy every Wednesday!
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We recently purchased new magnets in the school and the children had great fun creating their own animals with the magnets in groups!
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Well done on a great month’s work boys and girls!
Looks very exciting. I love all the colours in the artwork. Well done
Great work everyone! I really like your colourful parrots and creative animals made from the magnets ?
Lovely work!! I really like your parrots ? and your fabric and fibre pictures!!