Round and Round we go

we hold each others hands,

We weave our lives in a circle,

our love is strong and the dance goes on.

Class 3 have approached the changing of the season in earnest this year as we feel the giddy excitement of performing the Maypole Dance next Tuesday at our Spring festival. We have practised the traditional festival songs during our junior choir time and have managed to learn the Maypole Dance song on our recorders. Spring has made our way into story, writing activities, verse and our gardening journal as we begin to think about what we buried in the ground last Autumn……..

Our painting sessions  have also focused on using spring colours and seeing what we can make from our primary colours in a symmetrical pattern. The seasons have a strong focus in the class three curriculum.

We are into our third week of our music main lesson as we travel along with story to the Land of Phonopolis, an italian story about the adventures of Silasol and Farmeido as they meet the local music man Mousike. On the way to the wind tower they meet the Kings daughter Melodia and join in her search to learn to write down the beautiful sounds they hear. The children have begun to put the last couple of weeks of the writing of the story and the many facts regarding melody, pitch, notation, time signatures and rests. A whole new language has opened up regarding treble staves and clefs, crochets and minums. This week the children have begun to write and play their own simple melodies and are becoming competent in reading music. Such a joy.

Class 3 had a fabulous day dressing up as our favourite book characters, even Mary Poppins flew in….