On Tuesday Reception and Year 1 had a visit from the local fire engine.

The firefighters came to talk to us about how we can be safe when we are travelling in a car. He spoke about how important it is to wear a seatbelt and a booster seat if you are only short!

But the most important thing he told us was not to let your parents use a mobile phone when they are driving as it is so dangerous.

We also got to try some of the equipment the fire fighters use to rescue people from car crashes.

What other ways do you think we can stay safe when travelling in a car?

The children were challenged to use  a variety of techniques and one handed tools to create a caterpillar.  They were able to select a named shape and draw around it with increasing control.  Here are some of our finished caterpillars…

We have been looking at different ways we can assemble the pieces together.  We have used sellotape, treasury tags and split pins.  Challenge:  What other ways can you think of to fasten the pieces together?

To help us improve our writing in Year 4, we have started to talk about choosing the right ingredients for our writing and “tasting” it to see if it’s effective.

When we write we can use lots of different techniques and elements to help us.  For example adjectives, adverbs, similes, alliteration etc. but sometimes, even though we “follow the recipe”, it just doesn’t taste right!

We can “taste” our writing by reading it out loud, checking it makes sense and identifying whether we have a balance of ingredients and not too much of one thing. 

Can you identify the “ingredients” in the sentences below?

Can you write a tasty sentence?

The big, huge, enormous elephant had surprisingly super suction in his trunk.

The ferocious Firebird likes to gobble crunchy bugs for breakfast.