Miss Mulligan’s Class |

Welcome to Miss Mulligan’s class! The adults in Miss Mulligan’s class are Miss Mulligan (centre), Mrs Holroyd and Mrs Moate. Our text for the Autumn term is Holes by Louis Sachar. We are all really excited to explore the book to see what happens.

Literacy

This term in English we are reading the book 'holes' by Louis Sachar.

'Stanley Yelnats has bad luck (thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather).

When Stanley's bad luck unfairly lands him in the juvenile detention centre at Camp Green Lake (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake), he and his campmates Zero, X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Magnet and Zigzag are forced to dig holes in order to build character...

BUT WHAT ARE THEY REALLY DIGGING FOR?'

We are all really excited about reading it and finding out what actually happens.

This term we will be writing a senses poem based on the story as well as a Newspaper Report and an alternative story ending. Come back soon to see what great writing we produce.

Maths

We are beginning this term by exploring Place Value. We are already enjoying using some of the concrete objects that help us in our maths learning like Base 10, Number Arrows, Numicon and Place Value Charts.

Science

We are going to be exploring Living Things and their Habitats as well Forces and Magnets this term.

We are all really excited to try out lots of exciting science experiments.

Come back a little later to see what experiments we have been trying.

PE

This half term we will be focusing on gymnastics and our PE lesson will take place on Tuesday each week.

Children will need to bring:

white PE t-shirt
black shorts or jogging bottoms
plimsoles / non-marking trainers

We can't wait to show you some pictures of us enjoying our gymnastics lessons.

Foundation Subjects

History

In history this term we are learning about Bomber Command in Lincolnshire. We will be exploring why Bomber Command existed, why Lincolnshire was known as Bomber County, all about the planes of Bomber Command and lots more.

We were lucky enough to borrow some artefacts from the International Bomber Command Centre which included pictures of the crews of some of the planes, telegrams, a flight helmet, a flight log book and an early type of computer that the navigators used to find their way to occupied Europe as well as much more. We loved looking at the artefacts and listening to the stories on the sound box.

Geography

We are going to be exploring maps and locating different countries on those maps in Geography. Then we will look at the physical and human features of those countries including their major cities.

Art

We are all very good at art in this class so we are looking forward to our art lessons this term which are going to focus on still life pictures and photography. We are going to focus on Still Life to begin with and try and use Van Gogh's still life paintings as inspiration for our own still life pictures of some oranges.

This term we are going to be exploring Hinduism in our RE lessons. The big questions that we will be trying to answer are:

How do Hindu's reflect their faith in the way they live?

What is karma and how does it drive the cycle of samsara?

How might a Hindu seek to achieve Moksha?

In DT we are going to be learning all about and using pneumatics. We are all very excited to find out what pneumatics are and what we are going to make using them.

Personal developmental Play

We have begun to play with other children during our big choosings and are beginning to make some good friendships.

During our quieter choosings we really like to play with Plus Plus and we love to explore all the different larger choosings in class.

Here are some pictures of us playing.

Although we manage choosing time really well sometimes Mrs Holroyd leads us astray! She encouraged us to jump out at Mr Moore during Golden Time and make him jump!