Green Frogs
Welcome To Green Frogs 2020-2021!
Lockdown Spring 2021
These are difficult and challenging times but better times will follow!!
We will be setting Home Learning Activities and Videos for the children via EFL, for when the children are learning at home during this time. We will also send out any resources or equipment that the children require to help them. Whilst the children are in school we would like to reassure you that we are doing our best to keep our routine and structure and the children's learning and fun is continuing.
Please keep uploading photos and videos onto EFL to show us what you have been up to!!
Emma, Jane, Leona and Lily
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COVID-19 response - March 2020
During this period of home-learning, please remember that we are always on hand if you need any help or advice. You can email me on the class email address with any questions and you should have all received an email from me detailing useful websites and activity suggestions to keep your little Green Frogs busy! You are under no pressure to access any of this; all we want is for you and your child to remain healthy and happy!
Keep an eye out for a weekly newsletter from me every Friday, containing some new ideas to keep your little ones engaged. The school Facebook group also has some lovely examples. I would love for you to share photographs and videos of what you and your Green Frog have been getting up to through the Evidence For Learning app.
Take care everyone and stay safe.
Rachael
Today Green frogs visited 'Hays' Travel agents were we learnt all about how to book a holiday as we are learning about Spain this term. After going to the travel agents we had a play on the park!
Today Green frogs visited the fire station! whilst we were there we learnt all about what fire men do to help us. The children also learnt what number we have to ring if we are ever in trouble. The children were even able to have a go of the hose pipe!
This week some of Green Frogs visited Apple Cast cafe. We enjoyed eating lots of cookies and also learnt some tips for our role play cafe in class.
This week Green Frogs have been busy impressing us with their skills at Bike Ability!
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Bikeability in the glorious sunshine!
Look at some of our Space arts and crafts!
Baking star biscuits and writing in moon dust!
Happy Halloween Green Frogs!
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Life skills- making biscuits!
Making sensory bottles!
Getting to know each other!
Green Frogs 2018-2019
Welcome to Green Frogs! Your class teacher is Rachael. Your teaching assistants are Jane, Julie, Chelsey, Kayleigh and Leona. We are all so excited for the year ahead!
Green Frogs 2017 -2018
In English we have been busy designing our own superheroes! We thought of our own superhero name and what special powers we could have. We designed a mask and wore a cape and then we saved the world! It's hard work being a hero so we enjoyed some role play too!
It was our last session at Rock and River today. Green Frogs have really enjoyed this experience and have made some great memories. Today we did canoeing. Some of us felt a little scared but once we got on the water we all enjoyed ourselves. We did some racing and steered the canoe in different directions. What a great end to this adventure!
The sun was shining! We went orienteering today, we looked at a map and had to find certain places and objects. We were really good at doing this! We had an other turn at archery as we had enjoyed this so much the last time.
Today at Rock and River we did some rifle shooting. We all took turns to load the gun and shoot it at the target. It was very important to be safe and wear protective goggles. It was such good fun!
Wall climbing
Archery
FOREST SCHOOL
All the children have been spending time at our new Forest School. They have enjoyed playing in the wellie walk, making bird feeders, playing in the willow tunnel and getting very muddy!
Green frogs love Forest School!
Some Green Frogs took part in an athletics competition at Burscough.
They were all superb and we won 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals!
This term Green Frogs have been learning about Vikings.
We enjoyed making a boat, a helmet and a shield. We pretended to sail in our long ship!
Green Frogs all enjoyed the annual school trip to Southport to bowling and to Frankie and Benny's. We all behaved superbly and made our teachers very proud. We had a great time with our friends.
What a busy start to the year! Green Frogs have all settled into their new classroom beautifully. All of the children are working very hard and new friendships are blooming!
This term we have enjoyed learning about 'Ancient Egypt', we made our own mummies and pyramids. One morning when we came into school our classroom had been transformed into a tomb, we found Tutankhamun! This topic has been lots of fun and the children have found it very interesting.
We have been trying to have fun when learning the basics!
We love to bounce!
We had a great time picking pumpkins!
We had a visit from Splat Circus, we watched a show and then had a go at some circus skills. It was great fun!
SPRING 2017
Our topic about the 60's
We have all had great fun learning about the 60's and during this topic we discovered a new favourite TV show: Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote!
During our lessons we have explored what life was like in the 60's: the houses they lived in and the furniture they had. We even had a go at making our own Lava Lamps in bottles. We looked at what life was like for children in the 60's and the toys and games they used to play. We found out that some of our toys today including LEGO came out in the 60's. Then we explored fashion and the different trends that people followed; we really enjoyed making our own tie dye t-shirts. Finally we explored the music from the time. We listened to a lot of Beatles tracks and decided to make our own band: The Green Beatles. We made our own musical instruments and played along to yellow submarine!
Pancake Day
We have had lots of fun celebrating pancake day in Green Frogs!
First we made some yummy pancakes in a frying pan and we all had a go at flipping our pancakes. Then once we had enjoyed them topped with nutella, fruit or syrup we took part in a timed pancake race to burn off some of the calories we had eaten!
Our Dinosaur Topic
During our topic learning all about Dinosaurs we have taken part in lots of exciting lessons and activities. We explored how fossils are created by layering mud, sand and water on top of our model dinosaur then we made and painted our own fossils out of salt dough.
We looked at different dinosaurs and compared what they ate then we made a habitat-in-a-pot for a herbivorous dinosaur by collecting natural materials from outside.
Finally we explored possible theories on the Dinosaur extinction. One table looked at how a volcano might have wiped out the dinosaurs and they experimented with making their own volcano. The other table explored how an ice age might have wiped out the dinosaurs and they experimented by trying to free model dinosaurs from an ice block.
Chinese New Year
During Chinese New Year, we explored the different ways in which the Chinese celebrate and had a go ourselves!
We made Chinese lanterns; watched dragon dances and made our own dancing dragons; painted pictures of fireworks and made our own traditional Chinese Stir Fry. See the pictures below
On the last day of term we had a magic show provided by Mr Stix and his helper Peanut.
Then we had our party food in our classroom.
Then Father Christmas arrived with presents for us all.
We danced and played musical bumps.
We had our Christmas party, we played musical chairs and pass the parcel.
We wore Christmas jumpers for the Christmas Concert.
Friends stick together!
We made lots of different crafts ready for Christmas.
Angela our class teacher is leaving at the end of the term, we are going to miss her!
Christmas day out
We went bowling in Southport then we went to Frankie and Benny's for lunch.
Bowling alley antics.
Lunch at Frankie and Benny's.
We started to go to Christmas attractions. We visited Bents Garden Centre, hoping to see Father Christmas.
We had fun dressing up in the photo booth.
We visited the War Memorial at St Anne's church in ormskirk.
We had a look inside St Anne's Church.
We made our own poppies to make a display outside the classroom, to commemorate the people who lost their lives in conflicts.
We visit Skelmersdale Library to choose our own books.
Divali
We celebrated Divali during November, we had been learning about the Hindu religion in R.E.
We made clay lamp holders, then we decorated them and lit a candle in them.
Diva lamps
Our Autumn walk making 'Autumn smell cocktails'
Tally Charts
In maths we have been using tally charts to collect information. We went to the outside fence at the front of the school to count how many vehicles passed us in five minutes. We had to look for cars, vans. buses and motorbikes.
We carved our pumpkin into a happy face.
Halloween Disco
Some children from Green Frogs came in fancy dress to the Halloween Disco.
Pumpkin Picking
We visited Poplar pumpkin farm in Downholland to buy a pumpkin for us to carve in class.
Visit to the pumpkin farm
Educational visit/Topic
In our topic sessions we have been learning about healthy eating. We visited Asda to find lots of different fruit and vegetables.
Visit to identify fruit and vegetables
Creative/Music sessions
During our music sessions we have a very active and lively time, we are dancing and singing to "This is our left hand." Then we play along using our instruments to a piece of music.
Music session
The session usually gives us all a good giggle as well as learning about the beat in music.
All good fun!
R.E./The Hindu religion
This term we have been learning about the Hindu religion and where it started in India.
We have listened to stories about the elephant headed God Ganesh and the God with ten heads called Ravana.
We watched how Hindus pray at home and in the temple or Mandir. When they bow to the god they rest their head on the floor.
Praying to the Hindu god
Topic
Our Topic this term is all about Ourselves.
We have been learning about the different parts of our bodies, the bones and very importantly our teeth.
Taking care of our teeth
P.E./Gymnastics
This term we are doing gymnastics. The session is on Friday mornings. here are a selection of pictures of our class trying very hard to travel, balance and jump safely from the vaulting stool.
Gymnastics
We completed the session using ribbons to move to the music, making patterns in the air and on the floor.
Birthdays in Green Frogs class
Michael and Lewis on their birthdays.
Autumn Term 2016
This term we have twelve boys in our class, here are their pictures.
Green Frogs
Welcome to Green Frogs 2016 - 2017
Summer Trip 2016
For our summer trip we visited Blackpool. We chose Blackpool as it has formed part of our topic work this term. We had a dry and sunny day for the visit, but it was very Windy! But a good time was had by everyone!
We could not go on the beach as the tide was in, so we ate our picnic on the promenade.
We were invited to sit on a quad bike which the coastguards use to patrol the beach. It was good fun to sit on it.
We travelled on a Blackpool tram.
We went into an arcade and played on the slot machines.
Then we had our picture taken in front of Blackpool Tower.
Then we had an ice cream, YUM!
We made our own postcards to send to our families.
We wore green to raise money for a hospital in Manchester.
Visit to Manchester Airport Visitor Centre
We raised enough money from our cake sale to be able to go on the tour at the airport.
The visit was very informative, our guide for the visit was a man called Steve. He told us lots of interesting things about the airport and all the peo.ple who work there.
We went into an old aeroplane for a look around, before we went on we walked underneath the wing and saw how big the engines were.
Then we went into the nose of an old Monarch aeroplane. We had the chance to sit in the pilots seat. It was good fun!
We tried on different uniforms and hats and helmets.
Then we had our picnic lunch.
Disney Party
After we took part in the Disney fancy dress parade we had a party. An ice cream van even came to school, we could all have a 99 ice cream with a flake.
Disney Fancy Dress
During Disney week everyone got dressed up either as a Disney character.
While we were dressed up we took part in a Disney Parade.
Disney Week/Decorations for outdoor display
One activity during Disney week was to decorate clay shapes to become part of the outdoor display to remember our friends with.
We made masks to start our Disney week
We all made our favourite animal mask to wear.
Topic/Blackpool
Our topic this term has been about Blackpool, we had a very interesting box of shells which came in the museum loan. We had a good look at them and matched the shells with the corresponding pictures, we found out what each shell was called too.
Matching the shells to the corresponding pictures.
Queen Elizabeth's Birthday
We had a special lunch to celebrate the Queens 90th Birthday.
Visit to Fairy Glen
One of our visits this term has been to Fairy Glen, near Parbold. We went to look at the flowers which were out in the woodland area. We wore our wellingtons so we could splash in the stream.
P.E.
During our P.E. lessons we have been practising how to start a running race. This is to prepare us for sports day.
St Paul's Church
During this term we have been learning about churches. We talked about what can be found both outside and inside the church. We talked about communion, christenings and weddings.
Then we visited St Paul's Church.
Visit to St Paul's Church
We held a cake sale to raise funds for our trip to the Airport.
We made all the crispy cakes in class, some of our friends in Blue Frogs made some cakes for us too! Thank you.
Green frogs cake sale
Thank you to all the children and parents from Brookfield Park School and Kingsbury School who supported us by buying our cakes. We raised enough money to go on our trip to the airport.
Cake sale.
Happy 8th Birthday Lucas!
We all dressed up as Pirates, Arrgh!!
Happy Birthday Riley!
In maths we enjoy using the computers to improve our maths skills, putting the leaves into the correct order.
Maths using the computer.
We went on an Easter egg hunt. We made our own baskets to collect them in.
In maths we played a game of Easter egg bingo. The numbers were inside the plastic eggs, it was very egg-citing!
We made sun catchers using old CD's buttons and stickers to decorate them. We took them home to put in our rooms or in the garden.
We took some items to charity shops for the goods to be re-sold.
This term in P.E. we have been learning tennis skills.
We have trampoline lessons every other Friday, it is great exercise.
We went on the school mini bus. We took bags of re-cycling to the re-cycling centre.
We sorted the materials into the different containers.
In our shape space and measure maths lesson we played a giant game of snakes and ladders. moving forward the number which was thrown on the dice.
Our Superhero ninot. His name is Michael Re-Cycle.
Learning about magnets.
We used magnets to find out which of the objects were made from metal, it was good fun when the objects stuck to the magnet.
We all chose a book using our World Book Day voucher.
We put all the objects onto the table to sort them out!
We sorted the materials into different boxes, wood, metal, glass, fabric, plastic and paper.
Here we are doing some English work.
We read books on the computer, it is called the Bug Club.
Pancake races
During our R.E. lessons we learnt about the Christian custom of observing Lent. The start of Lent is marked by using up store cupboard ingredients to make pancakes. We made some and ate them, then we raced carrying pancakes in frying pans.
Birds of prey visit school
The boys were happy to hold the birds.
We had a visit from a man who showed us the birds of prey.
We used grabbers to collect the litter from the woodland area in the school grounds.
Collecting litter
Disco Time
We gave some of our school friends a big surprise!
Maths - 3D shape
In maths we have been looking at different 3D shapes and using them to build things. Green Frogs have some excellent builders!
We went on a walk to look for 3D shapes in our environment.
In our english lessons we have been looking for real or made up
words in the sand, real words had to go in the treasure chest!
In R.E. we have been looking at Sikhism and the 5 K's.
Everyone enjoyed looking at the special items.
We have continued to look at space for our topic work,
we launched a rocket!
Our visit to Spaceport.
We all had a great time looking around Spaceport. There were lots of buttons, switches and levers to use.
We saw lots of information about planets.
Then we went into the planetarium to watch a show about space and how astronauts have to do things to stay healthy in space.
We all enjoyed visiting Spaceport
P.E. with SHARES
We did our warm up by running around a course outside
This term we are playing lots of adventure games.
When we visited Liverpool we walked up the road to St Georges Hall to look at the display of glass poppies, they were in commemoration of the soldiers from Liverpool who died during the First World War. They looked beautiful.
