More Christmas games!

Try the present dropping game



And here's another snowman to decorate

And finally, why not make some snowflakes?

This week's bloggers....

.... It's all of us!

We've all written a sentence about what we enjoyed this week.

"I like wrapping presents"
"I like helping Santa"
"We have made letters"
"We had fun playing a game"
"I enjoyed playing with the wrapping"
"I enjoyed when I go swimming in the holidays"
"I enjoyed the game on the blog"
"I liked throwing snow"
"I enjoyed wrapping presents and drawing"
"I enjoyed computers"
"I'm happy at being on book band 4"
"I like the games on the blog"
"I enjoyed helping Santa"
"I enjoyed playing in the water and helping Santa"
"Games, letters, helping Santa"
"I liked helping Santa at maths"
"I like the game on the blog"
"I've written a letter to Santa"
"I have enjoyed helping Santa"
"I enjoyed colouring with shiny pens"
"We have done wrapping presents"
"I like writing a letter to Santa"
"I helped Santa"
"I like playing the game"
"I like the snow man game"
"I like the game on the blog"

And here are some pictures of what we have been doing...

Sorting out our speed sounds.

Wrapping presents.

Writing cards and stamping them.

Helping Santa work out how many presents need delivering.

Practicing our Christmas songs.

Playing subtraction bingo.

More Santa maths!

We put washing up liquid in the water tray!

More wrapping, writing and stamping.

Can you help the elves launch Santa across the chasm?

Try this fun game and test your timing and mouse skills

Design your own snowman

just click here!

Church visit jigsaw puzzle

Click here to try our latest puzzle

Festivals

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about some of the different festivals that people celebrate around the world.  We have learned about Diwali and made our own Diwas and party food made out of coconut.  We have also made Christingles, visited a local church and written a class book about the Christmas story.  Have a look through some of our photos!

Mrs Barker carefully lights our Diwas.

All our Diwas lit up the room.

Ecclesfield Church is nearly 400 years old.

This window tells the story of Jesus' life.

We all wrapped up warm... it was freezing in the church!

Reverend Stordy showed us around the church.

Back at school we built a church out of blocks.

Meet this week's bloggers.

This week we have been to the church for a look around.  We learnt about Jesus and God and why people pray.

I have enjoyed making transformers out of knex.  They are called monkeybusiness, whappertail and gunshooter.

I enjoyed making Christingles in class. 

Meet this week's bloggers

I ingoid the crims far at the jons. I had may fays payntir

I enjoyed the lound junor scholl Christmas  fair and took molly home.

I  enjoyd  the  crisms  fair  at   the   junius.

I like  the  ics  ring.

Meet this week's bloggers

Here are this week's bloggers.  This week has been our class assembly and we all enjoyed it.

I  liked  it   when   we  lirnt  adowt  owls  dkose  it  was  fun. And  evrfing  was  intresting.

I  luvd  it   wen  it  was  my  asebly    because  all  are  mummy   and   are  daddy   all    came.  To  are    aseby



I   was  nirvos  in   may  klasasa  senble  bkus  they  was  losov  peepl.   I  had  a  ekslnt  daynt  pishir.

Monkey puzzle

Click here to see if you can do a jigsaw puzzle with some very familiar faces in it!

How fast can you do it?  Leave a comment and let us know!

Meet this week's bloggers

This week we have been very excited, as it was our turn to be the focus blog in our quadblog.  Our quad partners have left lots of messages on our posts, and have asked questions about our work.

Here's what our bloggers have to say about the work they've done this week.

Miss Cottrel bont chop The trees down dont you know the owl baybees live there


Wiy hav beyin pudsey


it has bin good blogging with peepil all over the world and torking about owls

It's been a really great week in the Monkeys.  Here are some more photos of what we've been up to...

We all added our name to the letter we wrote in shared writing.

We experimented with weight and capacity in the water area

We wrote about nocturnal animals in ICT

We made shopping lists and spent money in the class shop.

In the class bank we sorted out all the money.

The class shop has sold out of food!
In the background you can see some of us telling a story using the owl baby puppets,
 whilst some of us make 'Save the trees'  posters.

Save the Owl Babies!

Today we received a letter from the Owl Babies.  The letter said that the owls had heard Mrs Cotterill talking to a man in a yellow jacket about chopping some trees down to make room for a shed, and one of the trees was the one with their nest in!  They needed us to help!

We decided that we would put a stop to this, and armed with our clipboards went down to the bottom field to assess the situation, make plans for an alternative plot, and to think about other animals that might be affected.  Here are some photos.

The owl nest at the top of one of the trees.

The girls are angry to find that one of the trees has already been chopped down!

Maybe a family of hedgehogs lives in here. they'd be homeless too!

We start to make plans about where else the shed could be placed.

We check out our nature area for other habitats that might be disturbed by the work.

Deep in thought about alternative plans.

Finalising our plans on our outdoor stage.

Our plans

• Back in the classroom we decided that the shed could be built on a flat piece of grass, close to the steps, and away from the wildlife area, pond, stage and trees.
• We did some shared writing and wrote a letter to Mrs Cotterill.
• We decided we would ask everyone in the school to sign our letter.
• We decided we would spread the word on our blog to get world wide support.
• We decided to do a survey on our blog.

Please support us in saving the Owl Babies home!

Owl fact file

This week we have been building fact files on the birds of prey that visited us on Monday.  We worked with our learning partners to research information and then worked in the ICT suite to type our information straight on to the computers.  Here are some of our facts:

Owls of prey   they  have  round   faisers.
Owls  have  big eyes and they can see in the dark.
They  have soft wings.
They  come out at  night.


Barn owls have got black eas too see in the dark.
Barn owls ar birds prey.
Barn owls swoop down too sqees a rabbit.


Owls came out at niet  and thay  swoop  thoow  the  niet  bicas  thay   can  see   in  the   darc.
Owis  live   in the   forist 

Meet this week's bloggers

Here are our bloggers this week.  They are very excited about quadblogging with our buddies in New Zealand

These are some of the things we enjoyed doing this week.

"i  injoyd  seein  the  eagle   owl and it  is  jigantic"

"I like the masiv    owl"

"i likt the bon owl and is soft fevirs"

We also enjoyed looking at the Kapa Haka dance on our Quadblog buddy's blog.

Fantastic owl artwork

Inspired by the pictures in the story 'Owl Babies' we created our own etchings.

Firstly we coloured the entire sheet of paper with different wax crayons, before painting over with thick black powder paint.  We had to be patient while it dried, but then we scratched off the paint to reveal the light colours below.

Not only are the pictures great to look at, they also illustrate facts that we have learnt about barn owls.

The barn owl's long feet can reach in to the grass to catch it's prey

The barn owl has broad wings to help it glide.

This etching shows the unique heart shaped face of a barn owl.

Please let us know what you think!

Owls swoop in to school.

Today was the first day back after our half term break, and we began our new topic on 'night time' with a visit from a falconer called Andy.

Andy brought in a barn owl, a European eagle owl, a falcon, and two Harris hawks.  He told us lots of information about how the animals are nocturnal, where they live, what they eat, how they catch their prey and how the shape of the wings change from bird to bird.

Andy with the European eagle owl.

The falcon has pointy wings for flying at high speeds... faster than a formula 1 racing car!

A Harris hawk tries to escape,  you can see it's broad wings - these are good for gliding.

When we waved at the eagle owl he waved back!

Molly the barn owl was really tame.  We were all able to stroke her, and some of us had the chance to play falconer as she flew towards us and landed on our arm.

In the afternoon we created a mind map about all the information we had found out, and then wrote some information cards using one of the facts that we found interesting.

"The Harris hawk sleeps by wrapping his wings around his head"