Blog Archives - ATHERSLEY SOUTH PRIMARY

Spooky Spectacular!

24/10/2024

The children had so much fun attending our Spooky Spectacular and looked amazing! We had lots of fun dancing, playing games and eating our hot dog, crisps and sweets.

Pumpkin Soup....the best you ever tasted!

17/10/2024

We have really enjoyed listening and exploring the story 'Pumpkin Soup' in our Book Talk sessions and finding out about pumpkins. We loved looking inside and feeling the different textures as well as looking at the life cycle of a pumpkin. Today the children have helped to prepare their very own Pumpkin Soup. We separated the seeds, chopped the pulp, added oil, salt and seasoning before cooking and blending. The children observed the changes and noticed that once the water and pumpkin had been blended, the pumpkin went from a solid to a liquid.

We then tried the soup while listening to our story. The children had not tried Pumpkin soup before so this was a new experience for us all. Some children really enjoyed their soup, some did not like the taste and some children said we needed to add more salt.

The next day during our shared writing activity, we created our very own Pumpkin Soup recipe. The children did really well to remember all the steps that we took to create our very own pumpkin soup.

Book Talk

14/10/2024

This half term our 'Book Talk' texts have been:

Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival
Key vocabulary:
Explore - means to look around a place carefully
Discover/discovered - means that you find something or find something out
Wondered - means to think about something
Enormous - means very large in size
Barely - means hardly at all or only just about
Unexpected - means surprising
Shrink - means to get smaller
Tumble - When something ‘tumbles’ it means falls and rolls around

The Squirrels who Squabbled by Rachel Bright and Jim Field
Key vocabulary:
Squabbling (squabble, squabbled) -means to argue about silly or small things
Towering (tower, towered) -means very tall, taller than most things around you
Squealed (squeal, squealing) -A ‘squeal’ is a long, high cry.
Gathered (gather, gathering) -means to bring together
Convinced (convince, convincing) -means to be totally sure about something
Sprinted (sprint, sprinting) -means to run as fast as you can over a short distance.
Hollered (holler, hollering) -To ‘holler’ is to give a loud shout or cry
Scurried (scurry, scurrying) -means moved fast with short, quick steps.

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
Key vocabulary:
Slurp – means a loud noise when eating
Embroidered – means art made by needle work
Murmured – means a quiet sound / word / conversation
Squabbling (squabble, squabbled) -means to argue about silly or small things
Rumpus – means a noisy disturbance
Paced – means walking up and down and not stopping
Sobbed – means feeling upset and crying with short breathes in between
Steep – means high slant or slope

Our Book Talk sessions focus on each text over two weeks. Within this time, we really get to know the story, characters and problem. We develop our understanding of the key vocabulary and use this within our everyday play. The children then retell the story using a story map (some children have already created their own story maps and stories linked to the texts) and at the end of the second week we work together to complete a shared writing task.

Don't forget the scan the Book Talk QR codes displayed in our windows to share the story at home.

Fruit Kebab Patterns

11/10/2024

Over the last few weeks we have been developing our knowledge of repeating patterns. We have become keen spotters of repeating AB, ABB, AAB and even ABC repeating patterns! Today we have made delicious fruit kebabs, the children selected the fruit that they wanted in their pattern and confidently identified their pattern by saying "A is.... and B is....". The best part after creating our pattern was eating them!

Can you spot our repeating patterns?

Marvellous Mark Making

9/10/2024

The weather has made today a wonderful day for developing our large gross motor movements outside.

We added some liquid soap to the puddles and we put our big muscles to work making the water turn into foamy soap by using sweeping brushes. The children noticed that if they added more water and moved their brush quickly, more foam and bubbles were created.

The children then created marks using their fingers, small brushes, tools and the wheels on the trucks!

Talking Technology

4/10/2024

This week the children have enjoyed exploring the computers and talking about the different technology they have in their homes. Some children then created their own types of technology to use in their play such as laptops, computers and mobile phones.

We had a look at what the different types of technology looked like a long time ago and compared them to what they look like now. We looked at a Victorian telephone (where you had to use both hands, turn a dial and there was no such thing as a touch screen!), we then looked at the first computer made and the first mobile phone from back in the 1970's (one child said it looked like a giant walkie talkie!). After, we compared them to how they look now and how they have changed over the years.

The children then thought about how they would make their own mobile phones, laptops and computers. They worked together to cut card to the shape that they wanted, created marks for buttons, screens and apps and also thought about how to join the mouse to their computers using a hole punch and string.