Super Storks Flying High!!

In Design and Technology we have been designing Super Hero Emblems, which we then painted onto our own hand dyed super hero capes. Thanks to a very artistic Mrs Stephanie Galea, with her amazing painting skills, we have a wonderful backdrop for our Superheroes to fly across!
The children had so much fun creating these amazing photos. I will ensure that all parents also receive a copy of their child's photo. 

Heritage Village Storks

The Storks had a wonderful time visiting the heritage village. They spent some time in a traditional UAE coffee shop, learned about palm trees and the oasis, smelled some traditional perfume, tasted some lovely dates and especially loved having their faces painted and creating some lovely UAE crafts.

Spoonbills' Al Yasmina Heritage Village Visit

Super Spoonbills had a fun packed and informative visit to our school's heritage village today! As part of our 45th National Day celebrations we had the opportunity to learn about traditional Emirati games, a look at a traditional coffee shop and see how water was kept cool in clay pots. We learnt about the 'Jewel of the Desert' the wondrous palm tree and how it was used to make walls, roofs, floor mats as well as baskets and even tasted some yummy dates (tamer)! We got to smell some Oud and find out about different Emirati perfumes and scents. After we learnt about Henna and other herbs and spices used in the UAE.

Last but not least we took part in some activities: Burka decorating, pot painting, face paints and helping to decorate a map of the UAE in our finger prints!

Please take a look at these pictures of what we got up to! I am sure you will agree we learnt a lot and had lots of fun!

We had  great day yesterday in Sandpiper's class celebrating National Day. The buffet was fantastic and everyone looked great! A huge thank you to all those who brought in some delicious food for us to share!

National Day - Storks

The Storks (Zayed House) were learning about the emirate of Abu Dhabi on this, the 45th National Day of the UAE, Al Yasmina celebration. The class worked hard together to create a wonderful picture of the Abu Dhabi Corniche during the National Day celebrations, with all the brightly decorated cars. We had a wonderful day and everybody looked absolutely fantastic in their national dress and in the colours of the UAE flag!

National Day Activities in Spoonbills

Spoonbills had a fun filled day today, jam packed with activities! We were learning about Dubai as our Armstrong House Activity. We made UAE coloured finger knitting bracelets and decorated biscuits to look like the UAE flag. We were also very proud of ourselves getting an almost perfect score on the UAE National Day quiz.
Take a look at some photos of our bracelets and biscuits.

National Day Flamingos

Today marked the celebration of the 45th National Day of the UAE. We had a fantastic day wearing our national dress and colour's of the UAE. Followed by an afternoon banquet where we all sat and ate food from the UAE together. Flamingos class then learnt Facts about Ras Al Khaimah as each house focused on a different Emirate. 

Happy 45th National Day from the Spoonbills!

Planting Seeds!

Today we have been busy planting bulbs and seeds in Sandpipers Class. We are conducting an experiment to see what plants need in order for them to grow. We will let you know how it goes!

Super Hero Spoonbills

In Design and Technology we have been designing Super Hero Emblems, which we have then painted onto our own hand dyed Super Hero Capes. Thanks to a very artistic  Mrs Stephanie Galea, with her amazing painting skills we have a wonderful backdrop for our Super Heros to fly across!

Take a look!

I am sure you will agree with me that the photos look stunning!

Super Storks!

The super Storks had a wonderful time on Thursday becoming superheroes in the super capes they created! They even flew to their Arabic lessons wearing them!

Magic Maths

Year 2 Herons have had lots of fun recently learning about lots of different Maths concepts. Herons loved subtraction and multiplication. We also completed lots of active activities when learning about length. 

Spoonbills - Talk for Write

Over the last two weeks we have been using Talk for Write to help improve our storytelling.We built upon our work on Little Red Hen and adapted the story structure to write a story about a hungry Super Hero called Twister Boy. By the end of the week we had written a story using our senses for description, amazing adjectives, a new line for a new speaker that was correctly punctuated with speech marks and synonyms for said!

Take a look at our story in action using our Talk for Write actions and some we made up ourselves!

Which one is your favourite Super Hero Action?!

Spectacular Scientists - Herons

Herons loved learning about different materials. We found lots of materials in school; we looked at their different properties and discussed where each type of material would be best used. We collated them in our posters.

House day - Tuesday 15th November.

Dear Parents,

On Tuesday 15^th November, your child will take part in the Primary House Day. This day is packed full of activities and your child will be off timetable for the duration of the day. Can I please ask that your child wears their house t-shirt and their P.E shorts on this day. If you still do not have the official house t-shirt, a t-shirt in the colour of your child’s house will suffice.

We are also asking the children to bring in a number of items to assist them during the House Day activities. Below is a list of items that we would like to collect. If you can bring any of these items in, that would be fantastic. Children can give them to their class teacher on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday:

-          Packets of Spaghetti (long, thin pasta)

-          Packets of Marshmallows (any shapes and sizes)

-          Empty toilet rolls

-          Cardboard boxes

-          Aluminum / silver foil

-          Newspapers

Thank you for your support in what should be a fun-filled day.

Many thanks again

 Mr Cheatham

National Day Fun!

With National Day fast approaching we've got a fantastic competition to complete - get your form below and complete it, handing the answers to your Arabic teacher. 

Good luck!

Native Competition

Non-Native

Thanks to Miss Yasmin Shadeh for organising such a fun competition!

Storks - Talk for writing

The Storks are really enjoying the new 'Talk for Writing' unit in English lessons. The children are learning actions to imitate the key language needed to tell stories orally before they try reading and analysing them. Through these fun activities they will rehearse the tune of the language they need, which will be followed by shared writing to show them how to craft their writing, in the same style. 

Here we can see the children telling the story of the Little Red Hen. They are using actions for the key language: once upon a time, early one morning, who. 

Now, we can see the children also using the actions for time connectives: first, then, next, finally. 

Real life villains - Topic Flamingos

As you know our topic is called heroes and villains so in our topic lessons we have now moved onto learning about real life

villains from the past. This week the Flamingos designed a wanted poster using the facts they had learnt about the real life villains such as the great train robbers.

PINK DAY - Flamingos

Here are Flamingos class enjoying PINK DAY everyone made a great effort to wear something pink or bought a wrist band to show their support. We raised lots of money for breast cancer research and got to eat yummy cakes too. 

Storks - Pink Day

Pink Day was a fantastic success today. We donated money to the Red Crescent to help fight breast cancer and we are looking forward to hearing what the total amount raised by the whole school is. 

Storks - English Open Morning

The Storks had a wonderful time with their parents at the English open morning this morning! Thank you so much to all the parents who made it in.
We loved showing off the different skills we learn in our English lessons.

• Character description - we described a hero or a villain using wow adjectives.
• Setting description - we described a setting using our senses.
• Sentence structure - we created sentences focusing on punctuation and conjunctions.
• Instructions - we ordered jumbled up instructions using our knowledge of the features and language of instructions. 

Mindful Flamingos

In mind up we read - how do dinosaurs eat their food by Jane Yolen and we had to say if the dinosaur was being mindful or unmindful. Then we had statements which we had to organise into mindful and unmindful actions. Below are pictures of Mihika, Haya and Daniel with their work and their own suggestions of mindful and unmindful actions. To end the mind up session we did a calm down listening to relaxing music and listening to Mrs hall’s voice telling us to imagine flying high in the sky as birds and what we might see. 

Storks - Following verbal instructions to play a game

The Storks had a lot of fun in their English lesson on Monday when we went outside to play games! The children had to show that they could follow verbal instructions by listening carefully and then being able to play new games - Hoops & Freeze Ball Tag. Ask your child to explain how to play the games and have some fun together.

Storks let loose in the shared area!

The Storks had a fabulous time learning through play in the shared area this morning. Happy Thursday everyone!

 

 

 

Live from Chris White... a real life author.

Right now Year One and Two are listening to Chris White tell us all about his books. He is a real life author. 

At the moment he is getting us to warm up our voices by singing in silly voices. We are finding it really funny. 

Chris just asked us what we were going to do next and he had some funny suggestions. 

Let's...

Jog with a sausage dog

Get funky with a monkey 

bake a cake with a snake

go ball kickin with a  chicken

visit the moon with a raccoon

make a fuss of a walrus

It turns out Chris was reading his poem. If we use our imagination we can do all of these things!

Chris is so exciting, we will be here for another hour. Later we will comment what our favourite thing Chris tell us is, i'm sure it will be exciting!

Have a look at Chris White's website! veggievampire.com And let us know what you think. 

Spoonbills - Finger Knitting & Super Hero Sandwiches

Spoonbills had so  much fun this week making Super Hero sandwiches and  finger knitting we just had to share!

Maths Spotlight - Spoonbills

Spoonbills have been looking at addition and subtraction this week. We have done a wide variety of activities on addition and today started on subtraction. Some groups were working on subtraction using the numbers 1-10, others were using numbers from 1-20 and one group were being challenged to use the -9 rule ( - 10 then + 1). What we have all learnt is we really need to practise our number bonds so that we can do them without having to use our fingers or counters. However, until you do know them off by heart using counters and cubes was a great strategy!

Here is a game we enjoyed playing that you might like to try at home. We used it for number bonds and you can too to help the children practise! There are other games too, enjoy!

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button   

Storks - Superhero Sandwiches

We had such a fantastic time making 'superhero' sandwiches with our mummies and daddies today! Thank you so much to all the parents who managed to join us this morning and help us make a healthy sandwich, fit for a superhero! The children followed Miss Orr's instructions beautifully and even wowed their parents with their impressive knowledge of time connectives, bossy (imperative) verbs and adverbs  [ all very important 'ingredients' for writing instructions].