In October, following on from our learning about healthy eating, we learnt a little bit about teeth. We learnt what keeps our teeth healthy and what damages our teeth. We also learnt about the different kinds of teeth that we have: incisors, canines and molars. We made our own monster teeth out of play dough that we made ourselves, using flour, water, food colouring and creme of tartar.

Our monster teeth

One of the themes of our Ethics calendar this month is homelessness. The children have been learning about houses around the world and discussing their houses and who they live with. We have been exploring the theme of homes and homelessness with the character of ‘the old man’ in our drama.
Videos of our drama: Video 1 , Video 2 , Video 3 , Video 4 , Video 5, Video 6

Our homes

October is also the month where we celebrate Diwali. The children have been learning about the story of Rama and Sita and we had a great Diwali assembly on the 20th of October. See the website homepage for more pictures and videos!!

We also celebrate STEM week in October, the children are discovering lots of science and maths in their surroundings and we’re having great fun doing different experiments and maths puzzles.

They also got an amazing physics demonstration, where some children sat on a seat of pins without getting hurt, some children stood on balloons without bursting them, they saw some things go on fire, and some things float as if by magic and it all ended with a big explosion in the yard!

We’ve been busy this September, here’s just a few pictures of what we’ve been up to!!

Here in ACETNS all the classrooms are named after different trees. Móna’s class is called the Horse Chestnut tree. The children have been learning all about how tall they grow, how many leaflets are on each leaf and all about conkers.

We’ve been using different fabrics and fibres and getting inventive in Art! We worked collaboratively with 3rd class to create some food pyramids and thought about the textures of fabrics to create different pictures.

In English we’ve learning about how to make our narrative writing more interesting. We’ve been working on making our characters and setting more descriptive. In drama we explored different characters and made ‘freeze frames’ or photos with our bodys portraying different parts of a descriptive story.