Our Christmas How-To Guides!

I must say, of all of the wonderful writing I've seen from the Cheetahs this term, their Christmas How-To guides have made me smile (and laugh!) the most!  The children chose a mild, medium or spicy task to explain how to achieve using the features of How-To instructions that we studied.  They chose to describe one of the following:
How to Make it onto Santa's 'Good List'
How to Stay Awake for Santa
or
How to Have the Perfect Christmas Day

Now, I can't very well share with any parents reading, the "stay awake" tricks your children have up their sleeves for this coming Christmas Eve, but my oh my do they ever have ideas!  Ye be warned to tire these Cheetahs out so that Santa can make his visit on time!  However, I will share these 2 excellent How-To guides from the other categories:

Ben, this will definitely work!

Isabella, this sounds like a soul-warming day!

Some Christmas fun- I mean, work!

At such a busy time of year with Christmas preparations, finishing up projects, rehearsals and other end of term activities, the Cheetahs have been enjoying a change of pace in some of their lessons on Thursdays & Fridays for the final couple of weeks!  After the must-do work was complete, the children have been busy working on their Christmas Activity Packs, where they can choose the English or Maths activities to complete in any order!  I've noticed that the children were immediately drawn to the Maths co-ordinates & English acrostic poetry activities in particular! The children will have a bit more time to work on these this week & then they can take them home to enjoy over the break (although I've emphasized to them that it is NOT homework- just for their own fun with learning!).  Of course, they're very welcome to show me what they worked on in the new year if they so wish!  Have a look at the range of talent in our class!

I'm so impressed as always Cheetahs!

-Mrs. Pell

Way to go Ben! 

Looking wonderful Gracie!

Beaming with positivity Isabella & Grace!

This is amazing Karla- and you made it look easy!

Terrific job maintaining the theme Mellissa!

Eggceptional Survivors!

Wow!  I must say how impressed I am with the DT designs for Group 2's Eggsperiment!  All 9 eggs survived perfectly in tact!  Big congratulations to Taylor, Ebony, Liberty, Isabella, Oliver, Bethany, Luke, Ethan and Harry!

I've picked out just a few pictures of their work in action!  Enjoy!

Taylor had the original idea of putting his egg inside a stuffed animal!

Bethany was incredibly focused on her intricate design!

Ethan had to do a lot of problem solving to make his design come to life!

Oliver took a big risk with his plan, but it worked out!

Isabella was all about padding, padding, padding!

Harry had some very unique materials that he brought from home!

Ebony had the largest design by a long shot!

Luke was had the most original padding ideas for this group! Play doh was the chosen option! 

I can't wait to see what the Catfield kids come up with next!

-Mrs. Pell

¡actualización español!

As we've been studying Spanish at Catfield for about 9 months now, the children have proven they're ready to take on a new challenge!  We've just started learning how to conjugate verbs in Spanish & they're  all off to a flying start!  Verbs in Spanish seem very complicated at first, but once they've got the memory work done, the pattern will seem natural to them!  We're starting off by looking at the patterns for verbs that end with "ar" initially.  Just look at what they can do already!

Way to go Ethan!

Very impressive Liberty!

The Panthers class have also done a great job organizing their own tables and colour coding their work to help them memorize the pattern!

¡Excelente Bethany!

 

 

¡Impresionante Eleanor!

More from the Cathedral Visit!

Norwich Cathedral Visit    KS2

Cheetahs and Panthers had a wonderful time visiting Norwich Cathedral.  The children took part in a range of activities including drama, story-telling, handling religious artifacts and designing their very own stained-glass windows.  The children learned a great deal about Jesus Christ and the concept of Salvation.

It must also be noted that the children's behaviour and respect shown in this place of worship was exemplary, so much so that we received a personal email from the Cathedral staff telling us how impressed they were and what a fantastic credit the children are for our school.  WOW!  What a compliment Cheetahs and Panthers!

Spanish Masters!

Connor & Isabella, I'm simply blown away by your Spanish time-telling skills!  Keep up the marvelous work!
-Señora Pell

Connor

Isabella

And a big muy bien to some hard-working Panthers too!  Well done Georgia, William & Kyle!

Georgia

Kyle

William