F1 Sparrow Class

Welcome to Sparrow Class!

Thank you for visiting our class page, here you will find useful information about our class including:

Weekly Activities

Topics

Events

Dates for the Diary

Celebrations

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Our Year

Autumn - We are Super! 

This term our focus will be around getting to know each other. We will meet a few superheroes along the way including real life heroes in the community. 

Spring - Spectacular Scientists

During the Spring term we will be delving into the world of science and inventors. We will venture back in time to the land of the dinosaurs, imagine  world without science and think about what life might be like in the future. 

Summer - The Day I Went to Sea

In the final term of the year we will be off on an adventure under the sea to meet creatures that live there. We may come across a pirate or two to help us find out about life at sea. 

There's a hole at the bottom of the sea!

• Listen to the song below, can you learn the words and perform the song for your family? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Qn2bcZRTo
• Have a go at creating your own creature from the bottom of the sea using craft, paint, pencils, chalk, crayons. 
• Make a sea creature puppet. 

Share your learning with us on twitter @SparrowClass

Pointillism Art

Can you create a piece of Pointillism art work? 

We will be creating pointillism under the sea pictures in school. 

Share yours with us via twitter @SparrowClass 

Have Fun! 

Sharing a Shell! 

Using the coastal spotting sheet below, how many of these natural coastal animals and plants can you spot in the story of Sharing a Shell? 

Can you draw your favourite natural items from the spotting sheet or story? Explain why you like this one best. 

Beside the Seaside

Create a seaside piece of art. 

You might like to complete this as a:

-diorama

-drawing 

- painting

-chalk drawing outside

-collage

Please tweet your home learning, we would love to see it! 

@SparrowClass

The Lighthouse 

Do you know what a lighthouse is? 

Can you research all about lighthouses to find out what they are and why they are important? 

You could use fact books, story books, the internet or talk to family members to gather your information. 

Can you create your own lighthouse? 

You might:

-draw,

-paint, 

-build using lego or blocks,

-box model,

-make a moving model,

-build using wood or other materials,

-add lights,

-build a lighthouse den...

What other ways can you think of to make a lighthouse? 

Post your lighthouse creations on twitter for us to see @SparrowClass

Home Learning Packs

Please see documents below for learning activities that you can complete together at home.

If you do not have a printer available use the activity as a guideline for the skills that we would like your child to develop and practise these in other ways, e.g, for the cutting sheet you could draw your own circles together on paper to cut out. 

There are a range of activities for you to choose from as well as phonics and mathematics activities. 

Create your rainbow 

You may have seen rainbows popping up in windows around your local area. With social distancing and lots of places closing it is a lovely way for children to connect with each other by painting or drawing colourful rainbows and putting them in the windows for others to see. During short walks or drives by it is a great idea for children to count the rainbow trail. 

You can never be too old to draw a rainbow...

Science Week Activities

Friday 13th March 2020

Today we all turned into mini scientists. We started our day by walking around the school field on a nature hunt. We put on our pretend goggles and had a careful look around us. We spotted insects on the ground, birds in the trees and lots of other things. One thing we noticed was a tree leaning over, we decided as mini scientists that the wind had made it happen. When we got back indoors there were two activities for us to look at, one which showed us floating and sinking items and the other looking at what happens to ice cubes.

We really enjoyed being scientists. 

Sports Relief

Friday 13th March 2020

We really enjoyed coming to school wearing our sports clothes on Friday. When we arrived at school we spoke about what makes us healthy and we came up with ideas such as fruit, water, exercise and fresh air. A lovely sunny day meant that we could take part in lots of different activities. First, we warmed our bodies up inside the classroom by moving around and stretching to different exercise warm ups. We then went outside and moved around our school field in different ways, we galloped, skipped, ran and marched. We then spent some time playing on the tyres. 

We were all very tired by the end of the day!

World Book Day

Thursday 5th March 2020

We really enjoyed getting dressed up as our favourite characters and coming dressed in our comfy pyjamas for this year's World Book Day. It was great to see so many children taking part. Throughout the day we read lots of our favourite books bought in by the children. Some children had a go at being storytellers themselves sitting in the teachers chair. For the children who read everyday they received their envelopes and those who had a golden ticket inside went and chose a free book. Lots of children designed their own bookmarks, there were lots of great creations. 

We had a fantastic day!

Magic Maths Workshop 

Tuesday 3rd March 2020

At our Magic Maths Workshop we started off by joining in with lots of Jack Hartman counting and moving songs together with our parents/carers. We then took part in lots of different maths activities which were set up around our classroom. We had the opportunity to play 'What time is it Mr Wolf?' We also got involved in some messy maths activities such as fingerprint counting using paints and fishing out magnetic numbers from sticky jelly using tweezers. There were lots of cutting and sticking activities too such as; the shape pizza and counting monster eyes.

We had so much fun!

Below are some resources you may wish to look at:

Dadly Plane Challenge

Friday 14th February 2020

This week's Dadly Challenge was to see which plane would travel the furthest. We enjoyed looking at each others creations and being competitive with one another. It was nice to see all of your hard work.

Adventurers Showcase

Wednesday 12th February 2020

During our Adventurers Showcase we spent time showing our parents/carers the activities we take part in each week. We split into groups with our grown ups and took part in our activities led by our key workers. Within each different group, we had our Adventurers books out, which show all of the activities we have taken part in during our Adventurers time. 

Spectacular Science blogging event

28th January 2020

This week we shared our love for science by getting involved in lots of different experiments with our teachers and our parents/carers. We started by watching the Cola and Mentos experiment all together. We then went off to watch different experiments. We got involved in; sorting magnetic and non magnetic items, making paper planes, discovering what floats and what sinks, the skittle rainbow experiment, the floating man experiment and we made slime to take home (much to our parents delight) 

We all had a great time!

This term we are welcoming dinosaurs into our classroom along with the new year! 

We will be learning about different types of dinosaurs, their habitat, what they ate and how they lived. In our classroom we have a dinosaur land where we can recreate archaeological digs and learn facts about dinosaurs. We have also added fact and fiction books to our story corner. 

Have a look at some of books we will be reading together this half term:

How to grow a dinosaur - Caryl Hart. 

Ten little dinosaurs - Mike Brownlow

How to look after your dinosaur - Jason Cockcroft

Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs - Ian Whybrow

Christmas Around the World Blogging 

We has lots of fun at our Foundation Blogging event. We looked at the different ways people celebrate Christmas around the world. We decorated cookies, made popcorn decorations, worked on a treasure hunt and worked through some word searches. 

I Spy Christmas

This week we had lots of fun performing our Christmas play to our families. We have been working really hard to learn lots of songs and the actions to them and to very brave to go on stage in front of lots of people. Lots of our families came to watch us and we think they all had a great time. 

Christmas Dinner Day

We dressed in our Christmas jumpers and tucked into a delicious Christmas dinner this week, we had crackers and Christmas music. It was lovely! 

Christmas Play

Our children are working hard to learn the words to this years Christmas Play songs.

A quick reminder of what your child will be in the play:

Mrs Parkinson - Camels

Miss Carter - Angels

Miss Berry - Donkeys

Mrs Scott - Stars

Our performance times are:

Monday 9th December at 10am

Tuesday 10th December at 1.30pm

Wednesday 11th December at 4.00pm

Songs are available to access by clicking on the links below. 

Aladdin

This week we were really lucky to be able to watch the Pantomime Aladdin when it came to our school. We really enjoyed watching the funny actors and were able to join in with the songs and dances. We had a great time!

PE - Parachute Fun

We had lots of fun in PE this week with the parachute, we worked on our listening skills, turn taking and played lots of new games. We are really looking forward to the next time we play with the parachute.

Road Safety Day

This week we took part in a Road Safety Day and learned all about keeping safe around roads and when travelling in cars. We took part in lots of different fun activities learning lots of important things.

Dr Molly's Medicine Case

This we read the story Dr Molly's medicine Case, we have been thinking all about our bodies. We sang about our bodies and looked at some X Rays. We had a go at making our own X Rays.

Adventurers

Take a look at some of the things we have been doing this week in our Adventurers session...

PE

In our PE session this week we have been learning how to use a golf club to hit a ball. We practiced a 'tick tock' movement. The children worked really hard.

French

In French this week we had lots of fun learning different colours in French while watching a lovely firework display.

Delicious Dinners

We love having our dinner at school, some of us have one of the delicious hot dinners from school and some of us bring sandwiches. We get the chance to sit together and spend time with our friends.

Brilliant Books Event

We had a fabulous time at our Brilliant Books event this week, we had a visit from Steve Powell from Worksop Library, enjoying a fabulous story telling session and took part in a variety of exciting activities based around The Rainbow Fish, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We hope our families enjoyed the event as much as we did.

Brilliant Books - Play Workshop

Tuesday 5^th November at 3.30

Come along to our Brilliant Books

Play Workshop with your child

to find out how to develop a love of books

 that will help your child as they

start to learn to read independently.

We will also be looking at phonics

and how this helps your child to read.

There will be handouts available to take

away and a library representative to talk

about what the library has to offer.

Welcome Back 

We hope you have all had a great half term break. It is lovely to see all our children again,  we are looking forward to the very busy and exciting weeks ahead. 

Superhero Blogging 

The children enjoyed a super day, dressing up as their favourite Superheroes. They took part in Superhero dancing and painted some super paintings, we blogged about the things the children had enjoyed. They all looked great and had a fun day...

Dadly Challenge

The children in Foundation took part in their first Dadly Challenge of the year. With their families they made a cricket bat and then competed to see who could bat the ball the furthest. Well done to the worthy winner from Sparrow Class who was proud to take home a certificate and trophy. 

PE

In PE this week the children moved around various pieces of apparatus, they climbed, travelled over, jumped down and crawled. Each week their confidence, speed and accuracy is improving along with their listening skills.

Parent Consultations

We had the pleasure this week on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with our families to share how well the children have settled into Sparrow Class. We look forward to building strong home school links and appreciate the continued support.

Superhero Badges

This week we have been making our own Superhero badges. We have enjoyed using lots of glitter and after we got the chance to wear our badges as part of role pay. We think our badges look great.

Harvest Assembly

On Thursday during the morning and again in the afternoon we performed the song we had been learning ready for our Harvest Assembly. We were incredibly proud of the children considering it was their first time in an assembly and first time in front of a rather large audience.

Adventurers

We have been enjoying our Adventurers sessions each Wednesday Morning and Afternoon. We have taken part in Story Telling, Arts and Crafts, Rhyme Time and Magic Moves. Take a look at some of the things we have been doing...

French

Each week we enjoy a French session with Madame Walsh. We learn the names of colours, count in French and much more. It is lots of fun.

PE

In P.E this week we worked on our climbing, balancing and jumping skills. We moved around the hall negotiating various pieces of PE equipment. We are working hard to listen to instructions and are learning to take turns with our friends too. 

Mathematics

In our Mathematics sessions this week we have been working on our counting, number recognition and experimenting with symbols and marks to represent the ideas of number.

Outdoor Play

We have been having lots of fun settling into Sparrow Class, particularly exploring our outdoor area. We have played in the sand, ridden the bikes, climbed, balanced and much more. We love being outdoors!