Today's country was... Tunisia in Africa.
As usual, the day started with the Joe Wicks Workout and then a slow walk around the playground to cool down. It was then time to find out a little bit about Tunisia - Miss James gave the children some information about the country and they learnt things such as what a souk is (a market), what the climate is like in Tunisia, what geographical features the country has, what the art is like and many other interesting facts. After this, it was time for a little bit of Science - where the children learnt about kites and how forces work together to enable them to fly. This was then followed by some DT - making their own kites! The Tunisian theme was kept as the children decorated their kites with Tunisian patterns. The kites were finished by attaching a rainbow ribbon. Afterwards, they were able to write their own instructions for making a kite. Following lunch, the group did some maths work and then finished the afternoon by going outside to try out their kites - and had great fun flying them! Tomorrow we will be visiting a country in North America. The day started with the regular work-out with Joe Wicks before doing some maths work and then outside for some more cricket.
After this it was time to get the computers out to research today's country - Japan. The children visited various websites to find interesting facts about Japan and then wrote these on post-it notes which were stuck around a large map of the country. Did you know: Japan's currency is the Japanese Yen? Japan sits along the "Pacific Ring of Fire" so has many volcanoes? The Japanese flag is a red sun rising? Japan's time is 8 hours ahead of the UK? The capital city of Japan is Tokyo? After researching Japan and a break outside, the children then found out about a type of Japanese poetry called a Haiku. These are poems which are usually based on nature or animals and which have three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line and 5 again in the third line. The children went outside for some inspiration and then wrote their own Haikus. These are some of them: Dog by Jake She lives at my house She barks when she sees a cat It is 12 months old. The Wind by Theo Let the wind blow now In the world of love and care Blowing blossom trees. Tiger by Katie Unchallenged danger They enjoy the bright blue sky I want to ride one. The afternoon was spent being creative and making Japanese fans which the children decorated with their name written in Japanese. Where will we be visiting tomorrow? Here is another attempt to play 'Balloon Tennis' at home. This is what you need: Balloon Area: Setting up something in between two sides (tennis court style) Players must be on their bottoms. Alternate serving, all shots must be underarm (so balloon goes up) Point scored every time the balloon touches the floor. Have you tried it yet? Send in your videos to your class teacher... This week we are going around the world in 5 days! We are aiming to virtually visit a different continent each day and have today visited New Zealand in Oceania, after first looking at a giant map of the World.
The children started their day with the Joe Wicks workout before embarking on a bit of arithmetic to get their brains going. This was then followed by some time outside and then they started to do some research on New Zealand. After another break outside, it was time for some cricket (after all, New Zealand does have a cricket team!) before writing some 'postcards' home from New Zealand. After lunch and some more time outside (it was such a lovely day), the children learnt how to do the traditional New Zealand haka and had a go at it themselves. The day finished with another game of cricket as they enjoyed it so much earlier in the day. Tomorrow we are off to Japan... We’ve had another exciting day at IVJS. We started our day by playing maths games together. We all helped to work out the answers. We had brought our bikes and scooters in to ride on the playground which was great fun! Then we made our own salt dough from scratch and cut them in to different shapes! We let them bake over the day and then painted them this afternoon to really bring them to life! We also made our own pizzas using a tortilla wrap. They were delicious.
Another busy day and a very happy Friday! We started the day out in the sunshine watering the plants we planted earlier in the week! Then we made dream catchers to hang in our windows with ‘Stay safe stay home’ messages inside. We also made cornflake cakes to take home and share (yum yum). We’ve also ‘styled our scooters’ we think they look pretty cool! Why not try to style your scooter at home? Finally we made our very own fork friends inspired by ‘forkie’ from toy story 4! Miss Couves, Mrs Orr and Mr Openshaw would like to say a big thank you to all the children in this week for helping us to have such a great time! We look forward to seeing everyone soon!
We have been busy again today! This morning we made our very own owl toys out of socks and an old pillow! Have a look at our ‘parliament’ of owls (that’s what you call a group of owls). This afternoon we made flapjacks to enjoy at snack time! Check out the photo of our recipe and see if you can make them at home. They were delicious!
They have been brushing up on their vocabulary skills, playing a game of Scrabble!
What new words have you learnt since you have been learning at home? Send your words to your class teacher! #ivjs #ivjsdogs #vocabulary Georgie has been super busy cooking, arts and exercising during the lockdown period. Please see some of the amazing photos attached.
What are you doing at home? Please tell your class teacher via email... Today, we have been very busy. As it’s Mr Hawkes’s birthday, we made him a special birthday message and found all his lost property around the school to help us! Mr Openshaw gave us some football and basketball lessons! Then we made salsa and guacamole from scratch! We have also planted some seeds in the poly tunnel too!
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