Dinosaurs!

I've been busily making a Dinosaur Cave for our role play. Photos to follow. What would you like to learn about Dinosaurs in the new year?

Colouring Competition

All children at Danemill were offered the chance to enter the Harrison & Murray colouring competition. Lots of children from Blue Class entered and we were pleased to find out that Dominic won! Here is his entry! He won a voucher for Toys R Us. Let us know what you buy, Dominic!

Miss .L. :-)

Toy museum

The children became experts in toys this half term. Have a look at us teaching our parents!

Playing POGS

Playing with a Gameboy!

Decorations Morning

We had our Decorations morning on Friday and hope that they made it back to you safely. Share pictures with us of these decorations in your home by emailing them to office@danemill.leics.sch.uk

Here are some pictures of us working hard!

Toy Afternoon

On Friday we opened our toy museum! We invited the general public (our family) and invited them in. We told them all about old toys, showed them fact cards and writing!

Parents: what was your favourite part of the afternoon?

Miss .L.

Parent Experts

We had our experts in to tell us about toys in the past! We learnt about Tiny Tears dolls, Pogs and electronic games!

What was your favourite toy?

Miss .L.

The Toys' Party

We looked at writing stories and making short stories more entertaining. As part of this we made our own gross cake with tomato ketchup, milk, sugar, jam and cornflakes. Here is the making process and the outcome. Can you come up with a simile to describe the ingredients:

Teddy Bears Walk

We looked at 'Where's my Teddy?' and went on a discovery walk around the school to explore our senses. Here are some of the things that we found!

More Awards

Well done to Blue Class who keep mopping up the awards...

Well done!

Miss .L.

Family come to school...

We had people from our family come in to talk to us about different toys that they played with when they were younger. Among the toys were tiny tears dolls, pogs, electronic games, puppets and marbles. Here are some of our pictures:

Fiction and Non Fiction

Today we have been looking at fiction and non fiction sentences. The children organised them into 2. Here were some of them:

Fiction

They lived happily ever after. - Katie

The toys woke up. - Leo

In the museum, everything came to life at night. - Dominic

Non Fiction

In the past, dolls were made of wood, fur and clay. - Jamie-Leigh

Yo-yo's are popular. - Matty

Hoops and Sticks can be made of wood and metal. - Dylan .P.

Can you think of any more?

Miss .L.

Writer of the Week

This week we were looking at a retelling of The Toys' Party. We looked at using exciting writing features like connectives, adjectives and speech marks.

Our Writer of the week is Jamie-Leigh! Well done!

Our other writer of the week is Thomas who also won Handwriter of the Week! Well done!

 

Very proud!

 

Miss .L.

Voice Memo's

I love getting voice memo's telling me what you are getting up to!!

Here are some that I have had recently!

This is from Katie!

 

This is from Lily!

 

Miss. L.

Diwali and Bollywood Dancing

For the past two weeks, we have been looking at Diwali and this week we learnt about Bollywood Dancing. In PE, we had a look at some movements that we could include in our dance. Evie went home and developed this further! Her mum has sent me the video and I am sharing it with you as it is so fabulous! Unfortunately, you will need to turn your head ;-)

Miss .L. :-)

Awards this week!

Here are Matty and Jaimee receiving their Well Done cards. Jonathan also earn his this week.

Jamie had an incredible week by winning Writer of the Week for the whole of Year 1 and 2. He also passed his Number Bonds to 10. On fire!!

Bailey had an excellent day and finished it off by winning the Handwriting Award! Well done!

Such a fabulous class!

Miss .L.

Gruffalo Party!

We had a celebration of our topic on Friday and had such a lovely time celebrating all of our hard work. I'm so proud of you all! Enjoy your half term! Rest, relax and be ready to come back and work hard on our new topic: Toys!

Which toys do you like playing with most?

Miss .L.