Giraffes@taddy

  We are thrilled to be able to visit church again and had a wonderful afternoon today learning about advent. Giraffes did a great job of decorating the church Christmas tree and we were made to feel very welcome by members of the church community. 

  Giraffes have been thinking about Advent: the final countdown to Christmas. Our Advent calendar is helping us to count down the days. Behind each bauble, there is a Bible verse with part of the Christmas story. We read the verse and we get a chocolate treat too! .

Giraffes have been busily working in the fudge factory,  carrying out the making stage of their enterprise project.   Three delicious recipes were made:           Double chocolate fudge           Rocky road fudge          Cookies and cream fudge There was a minor disagreement about which fudge was going to taste the best,  as all three looked so delicious!   They worked well in their teams to share out the jobs and make sure that everything was done really well. Mixing the fudge takes quite a lot of effort, so it was good to have friends to take turns.  A few weeks ago, they costed out the ingredients as part of maths week. The fudge has being made in preparation for the Christmas Market . . We hope you will come and support us. .

 The Juniors have come to school today looking amazing! They were asked to come dressed as a rockstar as part of our Maths Week England celebrations. I have to say that they really went to town and they totally rocked the rockstar look! Well done Juniors, you rock! 

Thankyou to all those parents who joined in Maths week by coming to our Times Tables Rock Stars event this morning.  The children enjoyed playing against you.

During Maths week England, Giraffes have been using maths across the curriculum. We found that we could multi-task by p ractising times tables  and  ball skills at the same time! In science, we measured the time taken for Blu Tac to fall to the bottom of the measuring cylinder.  We also had to find  the  mean  time from our repeated measurements. We continued our Power maths work, when we were all learning to solve problems using mental methods and reason from known facts. Today, we took on the White Rose Barvember challenges.  These are very tricky word problems, but with teamwork and our bar modelling skills, we managed to solve them. Tomorrow, we will be costing out our enterprise project. We will need to make sure that we calculate our costs accurately, so that we make a profit.  More on that soon... We will also be challenging each other on Times Tables Rock stars .

Reading buddies Giraffes were excited to visit the Bears classroom this afternoon see their buddies. They listened to their buddy read and went through their flashcards. It was lovely to watch them together. The Giraffes were fantastic at asking questions and encouraging book talk, while Bears were very enthusiastic about showing off their reading skills.  After play, one of the Y6s did a wonderful job of reading a story to everyone.  We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Bears and would love to come again.