Portway Infant School
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Today we were lucky enough to be joined by some Portway parents and grandparents for our Christmas assembly in the hall. The grown ups impressed us with their musical talent and we could name many different instruments. What a lovely way to come together and sing some well known Christmas carols. Thank you to our wonderful performers for joining us.
We have been learning all about birthdays and how it is a celebration of the day that we were born. Then we realised that Buttons had never had a birthday so we decided to give him a surprise birthday. First we needed to make cards, decorations and party hats ......
Then we were ready to celebrate!!
Buttons was very surprised when he came out of his bag this morning to find all of his surprises. He loved reading his cards and joining in with the party games. He also enjoyed having his very own birthday cake when everyone sang to him and got very excited to join in with the dancing.
I think that everyone had a lot of fun!!
We have been learning all about the change in season and what happens in Autumn. Then we went out to find signs of Autumn and to collect things to stick on our Autumn crowns ready to be 'Autumn Kings and Queens'!!
We went on a real Bear Hunt today and found our Bedtime Bears. We used the repeated language from the original story to make up our own and went through the squeaky gate...... splashed through the puddles ....... scuffed across the grass ...... stumbled through the forest.... scrunched through the leaves ....... until we found our real bears!!
You could retell the story as you look through our Bear Hunt photos.
We had lots of fun at Special Time too....... which did get quite muddy!!
We had sunshine and some rain......... but we also got a rainbow!
We went on a visit to our school Library today with Mrs Doney.
Mrs Doney showed us some of the books that we might like to borrow and how to find any non-fiction books if we have any particular interests that we like to learn about. She also showed us our library tickets.
We are looking forward to taking books home to share with our adults. Our Library Day is going to be Wednesdays so watch out for a new book coming home to share for a whole week!
We have been learning all about Diwali at school. We started with a 'Far Away Day' to India and found out all about how people celebrate Diwali and the different things that they do.
We were also lucky enough to have a Diwali Dance Workshop and made up a dance to match the story of Rama and Sita.
We even used all of our new learning to celebrate Diwali in our 'Family House'!
We have been learning about Harvest this week and how the wheat from the fields goes to the flour mill and then to the Bakery to make bread. We decided that we would pretend that our classroom was Burbidges Bakery and practise our spreading and cutting skills by making sandwiches to take home for our tea. We had a choice of bread and fillings and learnt how to use a bridge cut to cut the sandwich into pieces to share with our family at home.
