Robins Class

Welcome to Robins Class

Our class teachers are Mrs Byford and Mrs Elliott. Our Learning Assistant is Miss McFarlane.

Our Spring Term Topic!

As part of our Spring topic ‘Under the Sea’ the children have been enjoying focusing on lots of different poetry books such as ‘Commotion in the Ocean’, ‘Snail and the Whale’ and ‘Shark in the dark’, thinking carefully about hearing rhyming words.

World Book Day!

World Book day was lots of fun dressing up as a book character. We spent the day exploring books, sharing our favourite characters, acting out well-known stories using puppets and writing sentences about our costumes.

Art

Over the last few weeks we have been focusing on the artist Kandinsky and his style of artwork. We looked at his well-known piece called ‘Squares with Concentric Circles’. The children enjoyed describing the colours and shapes they could see. We painted individual Kandinsky circles, using powder paints and mixed the colours to get the desired shade. 

Yoga

In yoga, we went on a Jurassic adventure! We started off with ‘snake breath’, where we sat on our knees, took a deep breath in and then a long hiss out like a snake. We then got into our time machines and travelled to the Jurassic period! After hatching from an egg, we stomped through dinosaur land to our first pose- diplodocus pose! We travelled deeper and came across pterodactyl pose, which was very tricky and required lots of balance! Next up was Stegosaurus pose and then the scary T-Rex pose (complete with scary facial expressions!)

We have continued to be very busy this term!

In our daily RWI phonics lessons we have been learning all the set 1 single sounds and then using these to blend them together to make words.  We take our reading books home and enjoy sharing them with the grownups at home.

Each month, we visit another class to share a book with new friends. We call this Reading with Friends.

As part of our topic ‘Into the woods’ we read the story Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We found lots of rhyming words and spotted other traditional tale characters. We then used our senses to touch, smell and taste peaches, pears and plums. Some of the fruits had a stone in whilst others had pips. Everyone tried the different fruits and some children were surprised that they liked them! They used words such as sweet, tasty, juicy, sour, smooth and bumpy when describing them.

We have explored the seasons and loved making our Autumn Trees. Using red, orange and yellow pastels we made anticlockwise circles to represent the autumn leaves. Then we used brown pastels in a vertical repeating mark for the trunks. Don’t they look amazing.

We started school in September and love being in Robin class. Everyday we ‘Busy Bee’ with our friends. Some of our favourite activities are…

The weather has been kind to us so we have explored our garden, enjoyed being in the playground and worked hard at our daily Springfield Stride.

We have snack and milk every day in the shared area, lunch in the hall and love our weekly yoga sessions.

Everyday at 1pm the whole school do Whizzy Writing. In Robin class we are making our hands and fingers strong so we can hold our pens and scissors correctly. Some of the activities we have done so far are…

Please click on the link below to see what we will be learning about this term.