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  • Vlad and the Great Fire of London

    Published 30/10/21

    During Term 1, we have been exploring the super story of Vlad and the Great Fire of London by Kate Cunningham. This story is about Vlad the flea and his friend Boxton the rat, who love eating and biting their way around London in 1666. But one night in Pudding Lane they are caught up in a fire that threatens to destroy them, along with most of the City of London. Through this book, we learnt about how the fire is believed to have started, how it spread and what Londoners did to fight it and escape it. We also learnt about the famous diarist Samuel Pepys.

    We loved getting to know the characters in this book and used our knowledge of the story and the diary of Samuel Pepys to write a series of diary entries as Vlad the flea. For a whole week, we were a class of fleas! We decided that Vlad's actual diary must have been the size of a speck of dust, but we were glad that we wrote ours in our English books!

    We used 'Colourful Semantics' to help structure our sentences.

    See if you can follow our Colourful Semantics plan below:

     

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  • Great Fire of London Artwork

    Published 30/10/21

    As part of our Great Fire of London topic, we have been exploring the concept of colour mixing to create different shades and tints. 

    We started by mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, moving on to creating a 'cold' picture by using white and black to create and blend different shades of blue. The children were amazed by how many different shades of blue they were able to make, giving the shades different names.

    "This one is like a sea blue!"

    "It's dark cave blue."

    "I'm going to call this colour ocean blue."

    "That's made a turquoise colour!"

    We then applied this newly learnt skill to create a backdrop for our Great Fire of London artwork, using black and white to create different shades of red. 

    Once our backdrop was complete, we used a layering technique to create the rows of houses on Pudding Lane. We remembered to place our houses close together as this is one reason for why the fire spread so quickly.

    We are very proud of our artwork. Here is a sample gallery below:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Parachute Fun

    Published 30/10/21

    During Term 1, the children in Amazon Class have been doing a lot of team building, together with developing our focusing and attention and speaking and listening skills. 

    Developing these important skills is a big part of transitioning in to Key Stage 1, ensuring children have all the skills they need to learn and play cooperatively alongside their peers, access the learning and voice their ideas and opinions. 

    This term, the children have thoroughly enjoyed using the parachute as a creative and immersive way to develop these skills.

    As you can see, at the end of a session using the parachute, the children enjoy going underneath the parachute altogether! Lots of fun and giggles for all!

     

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  • Learning how to play the Ukulele

    Published 10/10/21

    Amazon Class have been thoroughly enjoying their Ukele lessons so far this term, learning to play many different notes and putting them together to play some fantastic tunes, guided by our very talented Ukele teacher.

    The children always look forward to their Ukele sessions on a Wednesday afternoon and come back to the classroom filled with enthusiasm.

     

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  • Year 1 Phonics Superstars

    Published 10/10/21

    Transitioning from Reception into Year 1 can be quite overwhelming, with a change in classroom structure and a different timetable of learning to adapt to.

    Regardless of this, Year 1 are already making their mark on Amazon Class and are settling in so well. It has been a pleasure to explore daily phonics with Year 1 so far this term, and they have really impressed me this week with the progress they have made. 

    Here are a few photos of the children learning the different ways to spell the sound 'ay' and achieving quite a long dictated sentence during one of their phonics sessions this week.

    I am very proud of you all, Year 1.

    Mrs Anderson :)

     

     

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  • Pudding Lane Bakers

    Published 07/10/21

    This week the children explored what it would have been like to be bakers in the bakery on Pudding Lane. 

    We carefully followed instructions to sieve the ingredients, add the yeast, mix and knead the dough. We explored the different smells that would have been in the bakery in 1666; smelling the yeast and enjoying the wonderful smell coming from the ovens as our dough baked. 

    We were so excited to see our finished bread rolls and were very careful to make sure the ovens were turned off so that we didn't have our own Great Fire of Stanton.

    Next week we shall be using bossy verbs to write instructions to bake bread. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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