Class 3 – What have we been doing? (12.2009)
Published: 18 December 2009 at 09:31. Posted in: Class 3
In Tigers class we have spent the weeks since half-term completing our topic on Anglo-Saxons, learning about Alfred the Great and the Danelaw in history, Anglo-Saxon place names in our area for Geography and completing our Anglo-Saxon houses for DT. All the children thoroughly enjoyed the cross curricular topic and are looking forward to our next history based topic in the Summer Term.
Towards the end of term we started our topic on Light and Shadow and have also undertaken many Christmas DT and craft-based activities, including baking spicy Christmas biscuits, constructing decorations and making boxes.
All the children took part in our Christmas carol concert in the outdoor classroom. We were fortunate to have a perfectly still and starry night for the performance, and the fairy lights adorning the outdoor classroom certainly added to the festive atmosphere! Many thanks to FOBS for providing the refreshments and particularly to Guy Turner for spending his afternoon putting up the marquee and organising the generator. It was a magical occasion!
Next term we are focussing on a geographical theme, water. This will provide many opportunities for the creative curriculum, including identifying oceans, seas and major rivers of the world (geography/mapping), the water cycle (science), evaporation and condensation (science), how water reaches our taps (local geography), the effects on people of droughts and floods (geography and PSHE), animals and plants that live underwater (science/habitats), paintings of water (famous artists e.g. Monet, Turner), water transport (history), water poetry and literature (literacy). The list of related topics is endless!