Moonbeam Class

Magical Moonbeamers

On Tuesday we celebrated World Book Day. We were dressed up as witches and wizards as our class and key stage theme was centred on ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. We turned invisible as we went on a stick hunt to then make our own magical wands, we wrote a spooky…

Welcome back!

We can’t believe we are half way through the year already.

At the beginning of our week we continued to be word detectives! We explored and identified different types of nouns and then used the prefix ‘un’ at the beginning of words and researched their new meanings.

In…

This week has been all about our well-being.

1. An assembly from Ross, talking about how to look after ourselves and celebrating one another.
2. We made hearts filled with compliments and positive things about our friends and teachers in Moonbeam Class.
3. The children renamed our class…

Today we have celebrated Chinese New Year with Sunshine and Rainbow Class. We have celebrated with a banquet, dragon dances and a parade around School displaying all of our wonderful decorations.

Highlights or our week

1. We have been inspired Samuel Pepys’ diary about the Great Fire of…

Our blog this week is by all of Moonbeam Class.

• In English we have made our own storyboards to retell the story of the Three Little Pigs. We have also written labels and captions for different characters.
• We have looked at the seasonal changes of spring and summer in Science.
• We have…

This week we have been working our socks off! I am so proud of everyone in Moonbeam Class and we have had an amazing week.

In Mathematics we have learnt how to tell and show the time for the hour (o’clock) ad half past the hour using analogue clocks. We have used real clocks in our environment…

Highlights of our week:

1. We have been measuring using standard units of measurement and we have all been practising measuring using a ruler and cm.
2. We have learnt new ways of writing ‘igh’ in Phonics. (ie and i-e)
3. We learnt about high and low pitches of sound in Music.
4. We talked about…

Happy New Year! Our first four days back in Moonbeam Class have been fantastic and Mrs Dorota and I have really enjoyed hearing all about the children’s stories from their time off.

This week we have started our new fairy tale term in English. We have discussed which fairy tales are our…

Over the last two weeks, we have:
 

• Performed the Nativity to our adults twice and we were AMAZING!
• Had Christmas dinner with Key Stage One in the hall.
• Partied the day away with our friends in the infants on Christmas party day.
• Completed a Christmas quiz.
• Been to watch a pantomime…

Elvis the Elf has returned to Moonbeam Class and causing all sorts of mischief whilst making sure we are trying our best in class and get ready for Christmas.

Also this week in Moonbeam Class:

• We have begun rehearsals for our Nativity.
• The children have enjoyed the new Christmas…

Our week in Moonbeam Class:

• We researched Christmas decorations in D.T with Mrs Dorota.
• In Mathematics, we compared number using <, > and =.
• We went on an autumn walk and wrote our own diaries in English.
• With Key Stage One we have practised our nativity songs.
• We learnt about…

Today has been Children in Need and we have worn yellow, spots or Pudsey themes outfits to help raise as much money as we possibly can for the charity. In class we discussed why we raise money, what a charity is and who the money is for.

We have enjoyed lots of activities such as making Pudsey…