Our story of the week this week was ‘’Little Red Riding Hood”. This week our focus was on story goodies and story baddies – we could identify the Woodchopper as the story goodie and the wolf as the story baddie. We also listened to the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ where we identified Goldilocks as the baddie and the Bears as the goodies. Our Talk through Stories this week was ‘On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy. We started by listening attentively to the story, we then identified the characters and explored what the problem was. We have enjoyed joining in with the favourite phrases and showing expressions in a freeze-frame when given a situation from the story. Our learning activities have included; using puppets in the small world area to retell the story, creating wanted posters, playing ‘what time is it Mr Wolf?’, making flowers using creative materials, weaving the ribbon in and out of Little Red Riding Hoods’ basket and playing a CVC game where we had to roll the dice, move our counter along and if we landed on a word we had to use our Fred Talk to read the word. We were also challenged to make a maze using the Duplo for the characters to go through - just like Little Red Riding Hood had to go through the forest to get to her grandmas house. In Literacy, our Year 1 children have started their new unit of learning where our end piece of writing will be a setting description. The children started the week listening to the traditional tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ where they then answered questions related to the story. Next, we were introduced to our text driver ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’, we looked at the cover and predicted what might happen within the story after listening to the story we compared how it was similar and different to the traditional story. We have also been introduced to conjunctions and know these join clauses/sentences together. Here we are hard at work completing our handwriting, red words and hold a sentence! In Maths, Reception children started the week looking at capacity where we used the language full, empty and nearly full and we can say that the taller containers don’t always hold more. Throughout the rest of the week we have subitised arrangements of 6 and not 6, ordered Numberblock images to 8, represented 8 as ‘5 and 3 more’, described how to place the numbers 1-8 in order, explained how to order quantities to 10, reasoned about which numbers are ‘more than’ others and noticed when numbers are increased or decreased and explained our thinking. Our Year 1 children have explored, discussed and compared 2D shapes, explored, discussed and identified circles and shapes that are not circles, explored, discussed and identified triangles and shapes that are not triangles and explored, discussed and compared quadrilaterals. In History, we learnt that the year 1666 was over 350 years ago and we know that this is the year that the Great Fire of London broke out. We looked at photographs of modern London and with our talk partners we discussed what we could see including; houses, buildings, transport and people. Next, we thought about why we don’t have photos of what London was like in 1666 (17th century) and we discovered that this was because cameras had not been invented! For our main task, we worked as a group to sort picture of past and present London. We discussed how the buildings were different in the past and how the people travelled differently. In PSHE, we have looked at the question ‘Why do I brush my teeth?’. We then spoke about how it is just as important to look after our teeth like we look after the rest of our body. We learnt that we need to brush our teeth twice a day and that brushing them gets rid of any food that is on our teeth that may cause them damage. We then listened to a song about brushing teeth – we know we go up and down, around and around and left to right! Then in our choosing time we practised cleaning dirt off some model teeth - we practised going up and down and all around!
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Our story of the week this week was ‘’The Three Little Pigs”. We have enjoyed listening to and joining in with the favourite phrases throughout the week as part of Talk through Stories learning. The children are experts at identifying the characters and the problem in stories and are perfecting their expressions in freeze-frames when given a situation from the story! We have listened to an alternative version of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and we looked at how they were same and different. We identified that they were the same because there were still the same characters, the same problem, the pigs made houses of straw, stick and brick in both books. The differences we identified in the alternative version were that the pigs had names, that the first little pig went to the second little pigs stick house before they both went to the brick house, the wolf burnt his bottom on the pot of boiling water but managed to escape and that the pigs built a new big brick house so they could all live together! Our learning activities have included; using puppets in the small world area to retell the story, writing speech bubbles to show what the characters might say in the story, creating box house models and in the funky fingers area we have been using tweezers or our thumb and index fingers to move matchsticks to create different houses! We could also name different materials, we know a house is usually made of bricks and know that a house needs to be strong and waterproof. We have also enjoyed playing a game called "Run, run as fast as you could...". In Literacy, our Year 1 children have spent the week composing and holding sentences to describe several characters from ‘Snow White in New York’. We have really focused on ensuring our sentences have letters formed correctly, capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. The children have successfully included the prefix ‘un’ in sentences about the wicked Stepmother! On Thursday we practised re-reading our sentences before reading them aloud to our peers! In Maths, Reception children started the week recapping previous learning on balance scales and using the language heavier, lighter, heaviest and lightest. Throughout the rest of the week we revisited the principles of counting, practised counting aloud and used statements such as ‘5 and 1 more makes 6 altogether’ to describe the ‘5 and a bit’ composition of numbers 6-8. We have investigated the ‘1 more/1 less’ pattern of the base-10 counting system and ordered numbers between 1 and 10, noticing the ‘5 and a bit’ structure. Our Year 1 children started the week investigating tetromino and pentomino arrangements. We know a tetromino arrangement is made up of 4 squares and a pentomino arrangement is made up of 5 squares. Next, we investigated ways that four cubes can be composed into different 3D models. We have explored, discussed and compared 3D shapes and identified the 2D shapes within 3D shapes. In Science, we named a variety of common animals including; pets, wild animals, farm animals and woodland animals.
In PSHE, we have looked at the question ‘Why are fruit and vegetables food for me?’ as part of our learning on being able to talk about things that help keep us healthy. We have learnt; that some foods are food for us and some are unhealthy for our body and teeth, fruit and vegetables have vitamins that our body needs to be healthy and we named different fruit and vegetables and some foods that are sweet and have lots of sugar in and we know these are bad for our teeth. Our story of the week this week was ‘The Gingerbread Man’. In the writing area children have been taking on the roles of the characters from the story and writing thought bubbles for what they would be thinking if they were that character - we have had some super writing! Children have been using creative materials to create their own gingerbread man. In our funky finger area, we have been using tweezers to place loose parts on the gingerbread man to add the features! Most excitingly of all, we have baked our own gingerbread man!! In Literacy, Year 1’s have begun a new unit of work based on the story ‘Snow White in New York’. We started by listening to the traditional story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. We then carefully answered questions about the story. We then started reading ‘Snow White in New York’ before pausing to make predictions about what the stepmother was plotting. We have learnt that the prefix ‘un’ changes a word into it’s opposite and means not. We then worked hard to had compose and write sentences containing the prefix ‘un’. In Maths, Year 1 children have begun work on their Geometry unit we have been composing pattern block images (looking at what smaller shapes we can see inside shapes) and continuing and developing patterns! In Maths, Reception children were introduced to balance scales. We know that these are used to weigh objects. We know that the heaviest object makes balance scale go down and the lightest object goes up. We then spent the rest of week comparing sets of objects. We have used the language use ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ to describe quantities and we know that it is quantity – not colour, size or type of object – that determines if 1 set has more or fewer items than another. We ended the week using the words ‘an equal number’ to say when there is the same number of items in 2 sets. This week we have completed our pre-unit assessments for our History learning on ‘Why are these people famous? Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London’ and for our Science learning on ‘Animals Including Humans’. We are looking forward to diving into these units next week!
In PSHE, we focused on the statement ‘beginning to control our behaviour in a range of situations’. We looked at sharing and how it can make us feel when our friends won’t share with us. We also spoke about the importance of saying sorry and how it can make others feel better. In Music, we started our learning on the unit 'Combining Pulse, Rhythm and Pitch'. We started by finding and trying to keep a steady beat to a piece of music, we copied back simple long and short rhythms with clapping, warmed our face, body and voice up and copied back simple high and low patterns. Next, we listened and responded to the song 'Days of the Week'. We started by listening to the song, then we played it again where we moved, danced and marched along to the song. We spoke about how the song made us feel and whether we liked it or not. Finally, we had a go at singing the song. The staff in Team EO hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year, we would like to say a huge welcome back to everyone.
This half-term our learning journey focus is 'Magical Storyland' where we will explore a variety of traditional tales and fairy tales - we will look at the characteristics of these tales and alternate version. Our core book for the half-term is 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. |
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