Our Visit to the Pantomime!

"Oh, no it's not!"
"Oh, yes it is!"

That was the theme for our amazing afternoon today when we went to see Cinderella at the Lincoln Drill Hall. We had a fantastic time watching the show and we especially enjoyed all of the singing, dancing, music and taking part in all of the shouting and screaming when we were supposed to as part of the fun!

Getting very excited on the coach on the way to the pantomime!

So excited!

Lining up so beautifully and sensibly outside the Drill Hall.

Cinderella!

We loved it!

Busy Little Christmas Elves

Today was our school's annual Christmas market, and over the past couple of weeks Foundation have been very busy little Christmas elves making lots of lovely things to sell so that we can raise some money for charity. We have worked really hard to make sure that our Christmas tree decorations and Christmassy cakes were the best that they could be, and we had to think carefully about the order that we were making to make sure that we got everything right. Making the crafts also helped us to make our fingers strong, because our busy little fingers had to cut and thread and push and pull and knead and stir and lift and paint and sprinkle! What busy little Christmas elves we are!

Making the icing for our Christmassy cakes.

 The finished product!

Our beautiful Christmas decorations

Our lovely teachers helping us set up our stall

Whoops-a-Daisy!

We have been so busy practising our Christmas play over the last few weeks, and last week was a very special week because we got to perform our play, 'Whoops-a-Daisy Angel' for all of our grown ups! They all thought that we were wonderful on stage. They were so proud of us and we were very proud of ourselves and our friends too because we all remembered to sing in big voices and sit beautifully until it was our turn to go on stage.

Lining up beautifully ready to go into the hall to perform our Christmas play!

Hello, Angels!

Having a lovely chat to our friends before we perform our play to our grown ups.

Hello, Mary and Joseph!

Our Snowflakes performing their beautiful dance.

A King has been born!

The shepherds walked a long way to see the new King called Jesus.

The wise men brought precious gifts.

Mr Edwards and Key Stage One were so proud of us they even sent us a letter telling us how much they had enjoyed our show.

Three cheers for Foundation! 

Hip! Hip! Hooray! 

Hip! Hip! Hooray! 

Hip! Hip! Hooray!

Using critique to improve our work

Today we looked at how we could use critique to improve our work.  We looked at how it had helped children in other schools.

We decided to have a try ourselves.

We had a go at drawing Whoops-a-Daisy Angel. Then we worked together to look at what we thought was good about the picture and what we thought could be improved.

The children were really thoughtful and were saying things like, "I like how you have remembered the wings but perhaps they need to be a bit bigger".  "You have remembered her dress but don't forget she needs patches on it".

After our friends had given us some suggestions to improve our work we did a second and then a third draft.

We were amazed when we compared our first draft to our final draft. We could see how helpful it had been to listen to advice from our friends about how we could make our work better.

We were real persevering penguins today as we just kept trying to get better and better.