Kahlo musicians

On this wet and gloomy Thursday afternoon, I thought it would be nice to share some calming and rather wonderful piano recitals from the very talented Kem and Alex. Enjoy!

Rousseau become news reporters!

This week, Rousseau have been writing news reports about the mysterious Dream Giver. They wrote their news articles, trying to describe the strange creature and explain what he was doing in the orphanage!

The children then recorded themselves presenting their news paper articles as real reporters using their amazing oracy skills. Some children even dressed up as news reporters and created backgrounds to read against!

Rousseau home learning

As well as their amazing writing and maths, Rousseau class have been very busy studying the Vikings, the digestive system and doing some French this week as optional activities.

Degas Home Learning

I hope you all had a happy and healthy Easter and are now enjoying getting stuck in with the new home learning.

I have already received so many lovely emails with all of the work you have been doing at home with your grown-ups. You are all working so very hard! Don't forget if you haven't emailed me with your brilliant work, you can do so via our class email account- I love to receive your emails and photos.

Here are a few things you have been up to in the last few weeks:

So many of you have been making minibeast arts and crafts! You have been very inventive!

Lots of neat and well formed pieces of writing about 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'The Very Busy Spider.' Well done!

 You have been enjoying watching the numberblocks episodes and sending me copies of your work sheets, they were all correct! Great work Degas!

I have also heard about all of the yummy things you have been baking, just wish I was able to try them all!

You have also been enjoying trying new things like science experiments and improving on your drawing skills.

Hector has even taken on the challenge of walking 125k on his running machine with his Mum and Younger Brother to raise money for Isabel Hospice! What a brilliant idea Hector, keep up the hard work!

I am so unbelievably proud of each and everyone of you and am looking forward to seeing all of your smiley faces on our zoom call! I hope you can take part.

Take care,

Mrs Watson-Clarke

Cassatt class home learning

Buzz, buzz, buzz... 

that's the sound of Cassatt class being busy bees!

It has been another busy start to the week for the children of Cassatt class. In fact, for their literacy, they started work on their new story The Very Busy Spider! They have also been keen mathematicians, practising addition and working with teen numbers. 

It was a real pleasure to see all of the children on the Zoom call this week. Their confidence to speak with their teachers and peers and the patience they demonstrated whilst waiting for their turn made the Cassatt teachers feel very proud. I must say I felt rather inspired myself! I've started to practise my sewing and have been reading about dinosaurs, Mrs Erdogan is tending to her own seedlings to make sure they grow, and Mrs William's is using information books to brush up on her knowledge about Ninja Turtles! 

I am always so excited to see all the activities you have been doing at home. Opening my emails from the Cassatt families is my favourite job at the moment! Do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to share some home learning, or if you would like to ask any questions; I will try my very best to support in any way that I can: cassatt@windhill.herts.sch.uk

Now, I mustn't keep all these wonderful pockets of learning to myself! Have a look at just some of the things that the children in Cassatt have been doing at home!

 Literacy

The children have been really enjoying the Ruth Miskin spelling videos! They have also been writing sentences and creating lists and labels based on their Minibeast topic.

Maths

From brain-growing addition sheets to using counting and measuring skills when baking, the children are working hard on their maths learning.

Understanding of the world

Bee watering pools, fuzzy caterpillars and spiky hedgehogs, oh my! Lots of the children are really looking after all the creatures they are finding out and about. There has also been a rather exciting volcano experiment taking place in a number of gardens; take cover!

Expressive Arts and Design

With inspiration drawn from books they have read, the children have been colouring, drawing, sticking and folding their way to magnificent pieces of art.

Please do keep sharing your home learning with me.

I can't wait to see what you all get up to next...!

Take good care,

Miss Lawrence

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Creativity and commitment from Kahlo Class!

Wow, Kahlo Class have not let lockdown compromise their creativity, imagination or wonderful work ethic. Everyday our email account is filled with updates, pieces of excellent home learning or exciting projects the class have been challenging themselves with. This is what really makes you such a special class - you always do your best, you always work hard and you are always surprising me with something new!
Well done on producing some excellent Dia de los Muertos work, it has certainly put Mexico as my top holiday destination post lockdown. Perhaps we should all learn to salsa?! Leo, Kian and Jim shared their whole writing journey and I could see how inspired they were. William and Keira took the reader on a real journey of the senses, Lilly was dancing, Adam was enjoying the mariachi and  Alex presented his work beautifully - I am sure you will agree it was a pleasure to both read and to look at!

Kem wrote a very interesting and very moving piece on his chosen great leader - Kwame Nkrumah. I would recommend everyone reads about Nkrumah who led a truly fascinating life and has changed the shape of a country. So many of you have wowed me with these projects and I can really see your personalities reflected in your choices - I could almost imagine Brooke and Kiera presenting to me when I read theirs.

Sonny has been making us extremely hungry and is now appointed OKCP (Official Kahlo Cake Provider), he has been baking a huge variety of treats and this orange cake may well be my favourite!

And finally, George has been experimenting with a new style of writing...if any of you are having second, third or fourth thoughts about anything in life...read on!

I will be blogging more regularly as you have all been sharing such a variety of work and learning. You should be very proud of yourselves, Kahlo Class, we are so very proud of you! 

Nursery home learning

Thank you nursery for all your lovely photos of all the great things you are doing at home.
Here are just a few of you going on your bug hunts and creating colourful caterpillars.
Hope you are all keeping safe and well
Mrs Kemmish

Chalk Crazy!

Today at school we had great fun creating some chalk artwork. The children used masking tape to create outlines of their patterns and then coloured in each section with bright chalks, before pulling the tape away. The artwork looks really effective and was a great way to brighten up the KS1 playground.