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Week 6, ending 14 October 2022
Posted: Oct 14, 2022 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Another week of fantastic work in Oak Tree Class, where, amongst other things, we have been considering the features of non-chronological reports. This is in preparation for writing our own non-chron reports about the Role of Women during World War 2. (Some children have been encouraged to spend some time over the weekend looking at aspects of this topic if they would like to. It’s a huge topic to research in one week!)
Female legendary singers have been the backing tracks to our Early Morning Maths work – it is very evident that Tina Turner’s Proud Mary was the hit of the week! :) But the children have heard from Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Madonna and Aretha Franklin, too.
Two class members, who had brought in ‘artefacts’ from WW2, led our Class Assembly on Thursday. It was super to hear about Olivia’s Great Granny Junie, who had told her all she remembered about Rationing after the war and also to see the watch and badges that George had brought in. These were also from the Second World War – mementoes from his Grandad Henry’s time in the war. (See photo above).
Over the past week, we have been learning off-by-heart, the popular poem ‘On The Ning Nang Nong’, by Spike Milligan and we performed it in the Key Stage 2 assembly on Wednesday morning. I was so proud of them all, as it is a very tricky poem to perform. (And I’m also grateful to mums, dads, Grandparents who have been assisting with the memorising of the nonsense poem!). I am hoping to attach the video this week…(every day is a school day!).
Homework continues to be a spelling activity (word search) and I am encouraging the children to have a go at another Rationing Cooking task. I am really enjoying seeing the photos of all your baked goods - hope they are as yummy as they look!
Have a fun-filled weekend.
Mrs Adrienne Amos
*Edit: no joy with uploading video yet! Will keep trying.