In Literacy, our Year 1 children have begun a new unit of writing. The text driver for this piece of writing is “Where the Wild Things Are”. As a hook into our learning children watched a drawing tutorial for a wild thing and produced some wonderful drawing. We have been able to listen attentively to the story and answer questions about what has been read. We have learnt about the suffix ‘ed’ and know that when we add this to a verb it turns into past tense. In Maths, our Reception children been practising saying what the whole is when there are 2 equal parts, described the attributes they noticed for a group of objects and sorted these objects into groups based on attributes. We have described attributes of Numberblocks and sorted Numberblocks into ‘odd blocks’ or ‘even tops’ and we have investigated patterns of doubles. Our Year 1 children have been identifying a missing part when a whole is partitioned into two parts, combined two or more parts to make a whole and wrote expressions to represent the images we had and learnt to explain that the = sign can be used to show that the whole and the sum of the parts are equal. In Science, we learnt to describe and compare the structure of animals. We know that a bird is a bird because it has a beak, wings and feathers, that they hatch from eggs and that most birds can fly but some cannot such as penguins and ostriches. We know that reptiles have dry scaly skin and lay eggs on land. We learnt that amphibians live on land or water when adults, they live in water when young, have soft skin and lay eggs in water. We learnt that we are mammals because mammals have hair or fur, drink milk from their mummies and know that they can live on land or water. We know the features of fish are; gills, scales, fins and we know that they are water dwelling. On Thursday, we held our class assembly where we shared some of our learning from this year and performed last half-terms poem “Bedtime March-Past”. The children were amazing and thank you once again if you were able to join us.
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This week we have begun our new topic on ‘Amazing Animals’. Our theme was ‘Pets’. We started the week listening carefully to the story ‘Tabby McTat’ by Julia Donaldson. We explored what animals we could own as pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, lizard, tortoise, horse, guinea pig, hamster, snake, fish and chicken! We discussed what we need to do to care for a pet and concluded that pets need a loving home, a space safe to live, water and appropriate food – we spoke about how certain foods can make animals poorly.
Our learning activities have included; drawing a picture about a pet they have at home and we have been writing sentences about our pets! If we don’t have a pet at home, we have been writing about what pet we would like. Children have been completing graphs to show what their friends favourite pet is out of a dog, cat, rabbit, fish and bird! In the creative area, we have been practising our careful cutting skills to cut out the body parts of animals then using split pins to join the parts together. For our funky finger activity, we have had to move pom poms around inside a plastic wallet to the hole and then squeeze them out! Today, we held a discussion around our focus questions “Why do I need sleep?”. We learnt that sleep gives our body and brain time to rest and prepare for the next day and for this to happen we need to have enough quality sleep. We learnt that if we do not get enough sleep we will feel sleepy and this means that we won’t have as much energy so we cannot learn or play properly.
Welcome back to the second half of the Spring term in Team EO. We hope you all had a lovely holiday and are ready for an exciting and busy half-term ahead! We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
This half-term our topic focus is 'Amazing Animals'! We will be exploring different types of animals and their habitats and we will also be discussing the needs of the animals which will link closely to this terms' Science learning on animals. Our core book for this half-term is "The Tale of the Naughty Little Rabbit". In Team EO, we have learnt that robots are machines that can do tasks and that they can do these tasks because they have been programmed by humans – we tell the robots what to do.
We explored the floor robots ‘Bee-Bots’ and we used our talk partners to talk about what the buttons on a floor robot might do and then we tried the buttons out. We have considered the direction command buttons, as well as the ‘clear memory’ and ‘run program’ buttons. Today, we had fun celebrating NSPCC Number Day! In class we had lots of number and shape related activities including: dominoes, skittles, numicon and threading, NumberBlocks colouring and design a maths t-shirt and singing lots of number related songs!
The grown-ups outfits across the Sunshines and Rainbows sparked lots of discussion around what number was missing, what is one more and one less. We had lots of fun making Numberblock headbands just like our grown-ups but most of all we had lots of fun celebrating the day! This week we have thought about and discussed whether all fairy tales have a happy ending and started by listening to “Cinderella”. Throughout the week we have also listened to “Sleeping Beauty” – we concluded that both of these fairy tales have a happy ending and we were very pleased that they did. We have also thought about characteristics of a fairy tale and know that they have a good character, bad character and some magic. For our Talk through Stories this week we have focused on having poetry time where we have begun to learn “Bedtime March-Past” that we look forward to sharing with you at our class assembly. Our learning activities have included; using multi-link cubes to measure the length of wands, copying fairy-tale themed building brick models, writing party invitations and thought bubbles about what we would wish for if we had a fairy godmother, creating wands, crowns and shields and threading the correct number of beads onto the wands. In Literacy, Year 1’s have worked hard to join two sentences together using the conjunction ‘and’. The children have been describing several different settings in preparation for writing the description of the top of the beanstalk. Children have worked hard to ensure their sentences have capital letters, finger spaces and full stops with correctly formed letters. We have also tried to include the conjunction ‘and’ in our own sentences. Reception continue to access their appropriate RWI groups. In Maths, Reception started the week comparing length and height to measure how long/tall an object is. We then used our conceptual subitising to describe parts of a whole set and described the arrangements, next we investigated ways of making 7 using two pars and used our fingers to make and describe 7 as “5 and 2 more”, then we worked out the missing part of 7 using the “5 and a bit” structure and finally we have seen that 7 can be composed in different ways and explained our understanding the composition of 7. Our Year 1 children started the week representing the numbers 6 to 10 using the five and a bit structure, next we identified the whole and parts of the numbers 6-10 using the five and a bit structure, then we explored the numbers 6-10 using the part whole model and the five and a bit structure, finally we explained where 6,7,8 and 9 lie on a number line. In Science, we have learnt that animals are grouped together in ‘families’ based on shared properties and know that the names of the groups are: birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and fish. We have been listening to this song to help us remember them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VixROiu8Qg. We learnt that these animals are similar in that they have vertebrates and we have been identifying animals in each group that we can find in Barnsley and the wider world. In PSHE through oracy, we have explored the question “Why do I need to wash my hands?”. We started by sharing ideas with our talk partner about when we should wash our hands and then we learnt that germs are everywhere and that they are even on our hands. We know that germs are so small that we cannot see them and that if we do not wash them away then we can spread the germs and they will get into our bodies and make us poorly.
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