We are having great fun learning all about music this week. We have enjoyed listening and dancing to Abba songs (our musician of the week). We have also made our own songs up and have been exploring musical instruments. We are looking forward to an exciting expedition this term.
Today, we were really lucky, Geoff and Dave came to perform for us. We really enjoyed experiencing live music. We even got to join in and become musicians – we sang a Beatles song!
As I’m sure the children have told you – as part of this expedition, one of our ongoing case studies is going to be Music. To help us ensure the children are exposed to a wide range of musicians and genres, both past and present, we are going to be having a musician of the week.
We will be listening to music from the artist/s each morning as the children enter the classroom and we will be learning more about the artist as the week goes on.
Each week we will add a playlist to our website and ClassDojo pages, this will enable you to share in the Musician of the Week and listen along at home too!
We had a great time this morning dancing around the classroom to our first musician/s – Abba!
Enjoy,
Mrs Parsons xxx
Today we welcomed the children back into Class 2 by starting to hook them into our next expedition. A doctors surgery has been set up in the classroom and the children have loved role playing many different characters. We heard creative narratives from the patients about their ailments and observed very kind behaviour by the doctors and nurses looking after them. The receptionists worked hard recording patients appointments in the book and answering their phone calls. It’s been great fun!
We kicked off our new expedition today! We discovered our first case study was going to be music!
We started it off with a recorder session – keep checking our blog for videos over the coming weeks!
Mrs Parsons xx
This morning in crew after we had shared our roses and thorns from over the break and we recapped what collaboration is. Next we used those skills to play ColourBrain – we decided the key to collaboration was to communicate!
We started the morning in class five with a hot chocolate, stories by the (interactive!) fire and a very special message from a very important person. 🎅🏻🌟☕️
All the children in Nursery and Reception sang their hearts out during their performances of Wriggly Nativity this week. It was wonderful to see them perform so confidently and share the good news of Christmas with their loved ones ⭐️
Here are some photographs of children in Class 2 enjoying wearing their costumes during our dress rehearsal 😀
We have had some very special assemblies across Norton Campus today – we even got to visit the junior school which was very exciting! Mr Chadwick arranged for Reverend Chris to visit us, and he brought with him his friend Chris. He talked to us about the importance of a Christingle and what it means.
He invited us all to a special Christingle service at Campsall Church on Christmas Eve at 4pm. During the service we will get to take part in a Nativity, sing some Christmas carols, make our own Christingle and we will even be able to hear Chris’ voice (it only works on Christmas Eve!)
For more information about the meaning behind Christingle – follow this link. https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/how-you-can-help/fundraise-and-events/christingle/what-is-christingle
Thank you,
Mrs Parsons xx
