WK 3 - CIRCUS THEME WEEK SEPTEMBER 23RD 2013

CIRCUS THEME WEEK

Our learning week beginning Monday 23rd September 2013


      This week Louise has again been working on the MEP maths unit of Indices. She has now completed this unit and has started to work on the unit about Formulas . In English she has continued reading Romeo and Juliet and just been looking at the background story of Shakespear. Geography has been a continuation on the unit "urban environments" . In history Louise has been continuing looking back to the 1800's to see what methods were used for medicine, antibiotics and antiseptics at this time and has started to compile research so she can start to produce her reports into the systems they had.

      

     Katie has been producing a large a1 sheet all about her visit to the Circus Starr last weekend. She has painted a background on which she has stuck copies of the photos taken while she was at the circus and also produced a descriptive piece of writing to take pride of place in the centre of her sheet.

     Numeracy this week was again a selection of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division exercises. 

   

     

      Lily has continued using the maths books from Collins and really enjoys working in them. 

      Literacy work this week for Lily this week has been to write about her visit to Circus Starr last weekend. She has produce an a1 sheet like Katie all about her memories of the trip.

     They all worked very hard again this week and have produced some more excellent work.  

     Like previous weeks in addition to their academic work Lily and Katie have also been to the youth club at Blackpool Young Carers, visited the library and been to the park. 

      Louise went to her  2 youth groups at FCBI - Fylde  Coast Be Involved as well as volunteering at the Carers Charity shop and also the Young Carers Youth clubs. 


     

ROLL UP, ROLL UP!!! SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2013

THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN

SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2013

     The afternoon of Saturday 21st September 2013 saw the Circus Starr come to town. The girls were given the opportunity to visit this circus for charity because of the kind donation of tickets from the Blackpool Young Carers Charity.

The girls had ringside seats for the performance and were able to see everything and enjoy the variety of performers.

There was a variety of  performers all introduced by the Ringmaster.

There were trapize artists,

high level acrobats,

the amazing balancing Lady,

there was an opportunity to have pictures taken with Circus animals during the interval,

as well as being able to purchase snacks and the all important light up souvenires,

death defying spinning high flying performers,

the magical magician,

the brilliant tribal dancing acrobats,

the wonderfully funny clown,

and the show finale.

                             

Then it was time to go home after a wonderfull time was had by all. 

Lily and Katie will be doing work based on their visit to the Circus next week.

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WK 2 - SEPTEMBER 16TH 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 16th September 2013


      This week Louise has been working on the MEP maths unit of Indices. She is making steady progress with the workbooklet and will be carrying on throughout the next few days to complete this unit. In English she has been reading the Shakespear classic Romeo and Juliet along with analysing a selection of poems from the anthology. Geography has been a continuation on the unit "urban environments" and she has started to produce a lapbook to record the information of this unit. In history Louise has been looking back to the 1800's to see what methods were used for medicine, antibiotics and antiseptics at this time.

     Louise has also completed some work for the display board.

                                 

     Katie has continued with her numeracy and literacy work. In literacy she has carried on with further writting relating to the Roald Dahl day we had last Friday. She has produced a number passages and pictures for the display board.

     Numeracy this week was addition, subtraction, multiplication and division exercices. Katie worked through the questions at a steady pace with some help required throughout.

     There was no other subjects covered this week as she mainly concentrated on numeracy and literacy and producing pieces for display.

     

      Lily has started using the maths books from Collins this session and really enjoys working in a book. I feel it gives her more of a sense of achievment when she can see all her work progressing together as she completes more pages.  Lily works really well and always wants to complete more than we had planned for her to do!

      Literacy work this week for Lily is also being completed in the Collins series of books we have selected for her. There have been various exercise for her to complete as well as reading and then answering the questions relating to the story. She has also completed some work and pictures for the display board.

     They all worked very hard this week and have produced some excellent work.  


     In addition to their academic work Lily and Katie have also been to the youth club at Blackpool Young Carers, visited the library and been to the park. 

      Louise went to her  2 youth groups at FCBI - Fylde  Coast Be Involved as well as volunteering at the Carers Charity shop and also the Young Carers Youth clubs and the new Blackpool Carers group for young adults at the Oracle centre.


     Below are photos of the work they all produced for our display on"Roald Dahl Day". 

ROALD DAHL DAY FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2013

     This week we based the theme on "Roald Dahl" with Friday 13th September being Roald Dahl Day. We did various written and drawing activities based on Roald Dahl and his books.

  We also watched the film "Fantastic Mr Fox" and the webcast from Puffin Live in celebration of Roald Dahl  Day.

     All in all all it was an enjoyable first week back.