Ms Odell's Class 2022/23
Welcome to Our Class Page.
Other adults in our amazing classroom are:
Mrs S Coleman: Teaching Assistant.
We do PE every Tuesday with Mrs Smith.
Mrs Boot comes and helps us sometimes too.
We had a visit from two Community Police Officers. They told us all about their policing duties and we had some really interesting questions to ask them too!
Our 3 finalists for the home-made nose competition: 1st place 100 team points. 2nd place 50 team points. 3rd place 25 team points.
Well done!
Thank you to everyone who made their own red nose for today. They were all amazing!
HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY TO ALL OUR LOVELY MUMMIES. WE HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY SPECIAL DAY, WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING. Kind wishes from Ms Odell, Mrs Coleman, Mrs Smith and Mrs Boot.
WORLD BOOK DAY 2023.
Wow! Look at our fantastic costumes and books. We had a fun day sharing lots of books and talking about the fantastic characters and adventures inside.
We had reading tents all over the place, and even had a blackout station where we used torches to enjoy our books.
What a fantastic time we had on World Book Day. Take a look at our parents' memories of reading when they were children.
17.02.23 We had a very busy afternoon 'team building' today.
For our task we decided on making 1m long bridges from junk modelling materials. The inspiration came from sharing some traditional stories, and drawing maps for the routes the characters took through them.
Our criteria was: build a bridge 1m long from junk modelling materials. Every team had the same materials and the teams were pretty equal but some members are not included in our photographs. Yellow team won today for good communication and teamwork.
We have a special visitor in class. An Alien has popped by and wants to learn all about life on earth. We write to him each week telling him things such as what the weather is like and what foods we like to eat.
It was a really windy day at the end of January, so we made ribbon sticks and had some fun! We talked about the wind... can we see it? How do we know the wind is blowing? which direction is it blowing. Can we see it stop and start bowing? What's happening to the clouds?
Take a look at our new 'Curriculum map' to show you what we will be learning this term.
OUR P.E DAY IS TUESDAY. OUR P.E DAY IS TUESDAY. OUR P.E DAY IS TUESDAY. OUR P.E DAY IS TUESDAY.
CHILDREN SHOULD COME TO SCHOOL IN THEIR P.E KIT EVERY TUESDAY AND HAVE LONG HAIR TIED BACK FOR SAFETY. PLEASE SEND SOME MICROPORE (OR SIMILAR) TAPE TO COVER EARRINGS TOO.
To help your child with phonics at home;
Take a look at The Oxford Owl website for LOTS of tips, games and activities. There’s plenty of help for both adults and children.
Just type into your search engine oxford owl. Or search https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Look in the ‘oxford owl for home’ link, and look for age 4 -5 and that’s where you’ll find things to share together with your child.
There are little video clips to help you pronounce each letter correctly, and this will be a HUGE help when it comes to blending the phonemes into words.
There are also some great games available on the ICT GAMES website: https://ictgames.com/
Brrrrrr.... it was a really chilly week in January and we were really interested in the ice. We use lots of 'wow words' to describe how it felt; cold, freezing, hard, chilly, wet, melty and solid to name a few.
We did some amazing science experiments to see what would help the ice to melt quicker. Warm water worked best.
On a fresh and bright January day we went outside to sketch winter trees from real life.
Here's a little catch up form our Autumn Terms:
We had a fun time doing our Santa Fun Run. Every time we passes our 'stamper stations' we stamped our own cards to show how many laps we completed in 20 minutes.
We had a special visit from Santa at our Christmas party.
We went for an imaginary ride on The Polar Express.
The classroom was dark and the seats were in rows like on the train. We watched clips of the film and had hot chocolate and marshmallows. The 'conductor' read the story book by torch-light, and we had a visit from one of Santa's helpers.
We all had our tickets clipped with a 'b', and were given a bell to show that 'we believe'.
If you would like to share some 'Mindful Times' with your child (including exercise which is good for our mental health of course), please see the links below and try some of these activities together.
In school, we use a website called https://www.gonoodle.com/ for lots of guided dancing, zumba, fitness and relaxation videos for the children to follow. Pop 'N' Bop is lots of fun!
Cosmic Kids Zen Den has lots of midndful activities to share with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL8snGkhBF7ngDp1oJtx5VcjwatxZn8xLK
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Here is a lovely story you might like to share with your child.
Get comfy and enjoy.
This story is about 'Starting School' by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg.
We will share this in school so you too can share it together at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQivaCXu-Q
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Here are the 'letter family' sheets to help you practise your letters. Don't worry if you can't print them, just use them as a guide.
This timetable below will give you some idea of how we spend our days in school. Children will have time to ‘choose’ play / learning / developmental activities once they have done a 15 -20 minute focused task with an adult for each subject. Adults play alongside, model activities and encourage discussion during ‘choose’ activities.
