We thought it might be nice to share some stories with you on the blog. We have videoed them for you to watch and listen to.
What was your favourite part of the story?
Have you got a favourite story you would like us to read? Let us know!
Look out for our next ‘Share a Story’
The children in Key Stage 1 have been experimenting with different instruments. They have been thinking about the sounds that fireworks make and trying to create some of their own.
Here are a few videos of the children showing their work.
On Monday 8th May the children in Key Stage 1 took part in a ‘wellbeing’ day! All the children participated in different activities outdoors. The activities provided were all to make the children feel good about themselves.
The children took part in…
Forest, Areobics, Music making, Peer Massage, Smoothy making and a story telling session. All the activities were outside and some were even in special tents.
At the end of the day ALL the children left school with a huge smile and feeling good about themselves. The adults too had a big smile and felt very proud of the children at Ashbrow!
Key Stage 1 have all been reading traditional tales over the last couple of weeks. The children have had many opportunities to dress up, use props and puppets outside with Mrs Moville and use Easi-speak microphones to record their different character voices. Ash class had a fabulous session using story telling chairs outside and identifying popular story language inside.
This week the children were set a number of problems, related to different and popular traditional tales, and they had to find their own solutions…………
Here are some of the activities they were asked to complete….
Some of the children spent a long time finding a solution to a particular job and most were determined to succeed!
The children were asked to build a house for the three pigs that was strong enough to stand up in a gentle breeze and a hurricane! (In order to make it a fair test we used a hair dryer and everyone tested their houses in different strength winds, using 2 different settings). It was great fun!
The quickest challenge was to see how long it took to climb to the top of the beanstalk (wall bars). Some of the children took more than 20 seconds but some were able to do it in under 6 seconds!
Climbing the beanstalk
One of the children’s very favourite jobs was using props and costumes in the role-play room with Mrs Moville and re-enacting some of the traditional tales they had read in class. They could choose who to be and what to use and some of them even made up their own story. The final part of this job was to write down any story language they had used.
Watch this slideshow and see if you can guess which traditional tales the children are re-enacting.
Can you think of any story language we might have used in these stories?
Click on the link below and watch this video of another group of children re-enacting a different traditional tale.
Have they used the correct story language for this traditional tale?
At the end of the day the children were asked to share anything they had learnt. Here are some of their thoughts….
“I didn’t know I could climb that high”
“I didn’t know you could use a hairdryer for wind”
“I haven’t made (acted out) my own story before”
“I thought the sticks would blow down in the wind but they didn’t”
“I didn’t know I could climb fast”.
Which problem would YOU have tried to solve and what do YOU think YOU might have learnt?
Each of the different classes in our school all have their own forest friend. Each week one of the children who has worked very hard and tried their best all week, gets the chance to take their class’ forest friend home for the weekend.
Ash (Year 1) – have a fox called “Daisy”
Sycamore (Year 2) – have a badger called “Timothy Buster”
Holly (Year 1 and 2) – have a red squirrel called “Holly”
Beech (Reception 2) – have a mouse called “Chester”
Rowan (Reception 1) – have an owl called “Ollie”
Oak (morning Nursery) – have a hedgehog called “Greeny”
Walnut (afternoon Nursery) – have a rabbit called “Little Rabbit”
We would love to share some of these special adventures with you. If you would like to read more then please visit
http://shareit.yhgfl.net/kirklees/ashbrow/forestfriends/
I wonder who will take them home this weekend……
In Holly class this week we have been learning how to make pancakes. We thought really carefully about the order in which we had to do everything.
Here are some of our ideas:
“Yummy pancakes”- Faizan
“First we had to wash our hands”- Khan.
“Next we had to put flour in”- Pharrell.
“Then we cracked the eggs in”- Wajeehah.
“We put milk in the jug and then we mixed it”- Amber and Keisha.
” Next we put the oil in the frying pan and left it to get hot”
“Then we put the mixture into the frying pan to fry the pancake.”
“We had to toss the pancake up in the air”- Jaylen.
“When it was done we had to chop some fruit up and put it on our pancake”- Aaliyah.
“Finally we ate the pancakes”- EVERYONE.
We also wrote some recounts about our pancakes.
Did you have any pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?
Today has been a very special day in Key Stage 1 as the children at Ashbrow Infant and Nursery School have started on their blogging journey.
The children were asked to share with you something they have learnt recently or something that they like doing in school.
(It is all THEIR OWN WORK as we feel it is very important that our children have a voice and a place to share what is important to them.) They were eager to have their posts published and to tell others they were famous.
We would love you to comment on any of the children’s work and their blog posts, especially at this very early stage. Also if you would like to ask the children any questions or make suggestions as to the type of work you would like to see on this blog, please do.
We look forward to hearing from you
The Ashbrow Team
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Pharrell is working really hard and is learning to keep trying his best. If he does this he knows he will get there in the end.