Norton Infant School

Vocabulary Spies!

31st January 2023 Laura Parsons

I am so impressed with the vocabulary I have heard around our class this morning. We began looking at the front cover of our new core text – The Green Ship. We created collaborative graffiti walls of all of the descriptive vocabulary we could think of to describe the front cover. After that our vocabulary spies were let loose to go and magpie some ideas from the different groups.

Our end product of the lesson was an awesome anchor chart of vocabulary for us to use in our writing this week – I’m looking forward to reading what you produce class five.

Mrs Parsons xx

Measuring in metres

31st January 2023 Laura Parsons

We have been building upon our prior learning this morning – using centimetres and metres to measure objects around our school.

Super job Class Five,

Mrs Parsons xx

SumDog

31st January 2023 Laura Parsons

Started our morning with SumDog – we are making some great progress in our maths with these games.

I’m sending a copy of the login details tonight because some of the children are wanting to play at home but have misplaced their login details – any problems, just let me know.

Mrs Parsons xx

Measuring Mathematicians

30th January 2023 Laura Parsons

We have been busy this afternoon! Lots of different length lines and straws appeared around our classroom so we used our skills to measure how long they were, then we checked the accuracy of our measuring by checking each others.

Awesome work class five,

Mrs Parsons xx

Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore?

30th January 2023 Laura Parsons

Class Five have been thinking and researching to try and sort the animals into the right categories.

Great job everyone,

Mrs Parsons xx

Musician of the Week

30th January 2023 Laura Parsons

This week we are listening to music from Elton John – enjoy!

Elton-John-Playlist-Musician-of-the-Week Download

Celebrating Chinese New Year.

29th January 2023 Sarah Winkley

Last week Nursery children celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year. They watched a video about the celebration and learned about the importance of various symbols within Chinese culture, such as the colour red, fireworks and the animals that represent each year within the Chinese zodiac calendar. They also learned about traditions within the culture that are carried out in preparation for the celebration.

The children experienced some real Chinese decorations and artefacts gifted to us by one of our community members, who spoke about them proudly in Crew. All of the children listened carefully and were very interested to look at the materials.

All Nursery Children then explored Chinese New Year further within provision. They were Go for it Gorillas using fine motor skills to manipulate chopsticks to pick up woollen “Noodles”. Some created a Year of the Rabbit, bouncing rabbit, others painted beautiful pictures of Dragons and Chinese symbols used to represent numbers. We sculpted dragons and noodles using play dough and experimented with traditional Chinese dress in the role play area. We even tried Prawn Crackers with Sweet and Sour sauce too at snack time. I think everyone had lots of fun and brought themselves lots of luck for the Chinese New Year.