Today we have PE and the children will need their PE kits in school as they will be changing. Once they are changed we will warm up. We will watch a video of birds flying (Marsaili wanted to know how they fly) and the children will be able to explore moving like the birds, using the video as inspiration Then we will remind them of the ball skills that we explored two weeks ago. Next we will ask them to explore different ways of rolling a ball. Can they roll the ball forwards, backwards with one hand and two hands into a space. After this we will ask them to roll the ball and chase after it, stopping it before it rolls out of the space. They will be able to explore rolling different sized balls at different speeds. We will ask them to describe what happens when the ball rolls quickly and what happens when the ball is rolled slowly. Do they need to change how quickly they run depending on how quickly or slowly they roll the ball. We will give each child a plastic bottle. They need to roll the ball with control towards it to try and knock it over. We will talk about the force that they need to use to push the ball to know the bottle over. Then we will play a game in pairs where they have to know over the other child’s bottle. At the end as a cool down we will ask them to recap what they have explored this lesson and then they will explore walking like a bird as Ellie suggested.

Teddy asked “How do birds huddle?” We will explain that they huddle together for warmth. We will all gather together and create a penguin huddle and decide whether it is warmer together or when we are separated. At the tables the children are going to look at groups of penguins in a huddle. We will begin with five penguins and split them up. We will talk about how many are in each group and how many there are altogether. We will encourage the children to think of ways that they could record this (… on whiteboards). We will repeat this with the children arranging the penguins in different groupings before recording what they can see. Some children may record with marks and some with numerals.

Today we have a Forest School session. Children need to be dressed appropriately for the weather. Myleene said that she would like to listen for birds so we will do this at the start and end of the session.

Maia H and Kai asked, what seeds do birds eat and what do birds eat? We will begin by watching a video which explains this.Then we will explain that we are going to explore representing the journeys that birds take to get to their food. Each child will have a whiteboard and pen, we will remind them of the pinch and flick technique and an appropriate grip when they use the pen. We will model each movement / route in the air with fingers before making marks on the board. Once we have completed a variety of routes, adults will segment and model writing ‘nut’ (and then ‘peck’). We will encourage all the children to have a go at writing these words (we will remind them that they need to be written left to right in English).

Friday

We will begin today by listening to and watching a video of birds singing and tweeting we will look at how their heads and beaks move (Maia D asked “How do birds sing? And George asked “How do their heads move?”) Then we will explain that Zahra suggested that we could all make a bird. We will begin by looking at pictures of birds and talking about what the children notice, what is the same and what is different. What colours can they see - are the birds just one colour? The bird models are already created but are very boring and need decorating. We will ask the children to think about the birds that they have just looked at before deciding what colours they need to decorate their birds, then they will be able to paint their birds in their chosen colours. When they have dried they will need to add feathers as wings and plastic eyes.