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The grown-ups who supported at the library were super proud of how safely the children to and from the library! At the library we learnt about different types of books that they have including; non-fiction, audiobooks, board books and easy to read books. We then listened to the librarian read us a story informing us about different farm animals then completed a word search within our groups before exploring and reading the different books independently. We ended our library session listening to a fiction story!
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Our Reception children have continued to work hard in their RWI groups. Our Year 1 children have worked hard to write their diary entries – spelling the days of the week, using the conjunction ‘and’ and using the suffix ‘ed’! On Thursday we read our diary entries to our peers. In Maths, our Reception children started the week by recapping the names of 3D shapes – we know that these are solid shapes. We then moved onto recapping the numbers 6-9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, recapped that 10 can be composed of 5 and 5 and identified when 10 is shown using structured arrangements of objects. Next, we explored ways in which 10 can be composed of 2 parts. Our Year 1 children have represented ‘first, then, now’ stories with subtraction equations using pictorial and abstract representations. We then worked out the missing part of addition stories and equations when two parts are known and worked out the missing part of subtraction stories and equations when two parts are known. In Science, we know that animals grow and change over their lifetime. We knew the names of given animals and their offspring and identified them in photos and have learnt which animals hatch from eggs and which animals have live young. In RE, we have learnt about the Easter story. We know that on ‘Maundy Thursday’ Jesus had his ‘last supper’, on Good Friday Jesus died on the cross and people were sad, on Saturday Jesus was put in the tomb and on Sunday Jesus rose from the dead and told his disciples to spread Gods love. We also discussed the different ways in which Christians celebrate Easter. These included; going to Church, sending Easter cards, having a special dinner and giving Easter eggs to represent new life.
This week we have been learning about “what is life like on a farm?” and “what is Easter?”. We started the week learning to name and sign different farm animals and where they live, the different jobs a farmer has, the various farm vehicles and we have learnt where food comes from! Our Talk through Stories this week was “Farmer Duck” and we have enjoyed joining in with repeated and favourite phrases!
Our learning activities this week have included; writing about what we see on the farm, colouring and writing Easter cards, creating split pin eggs, completing Easter dot-to-dots and practising our cutting skills to cut the animals out and stick them in their correct home! We have also enjoyed making chocolate cornflake buns! In Literacy, Year 1 children started our new unit of writing based on the text driver “Mr Wolf’s Week” by Colin Hawkins. Our text that we are working on is a diary which we are going to share with our peers to inform them what we have done on each day of the week! This week we have been practising spelling the days of the week correctly and using the conjunction ‘and’. On Thursday we started our diary entries and we were able to independently use the suffix ‘ed’. Reception children have been accessing fine motor groups to strengthen finger muscles and to practise letter formation. Here we are working hard to practise the formation of 'o'. In Maths, Reception children have learnt to identify a cube, sphere, cylinder and cone and identified whether these shapes stack or roll. We have recapped that there are 5 fingers on 1 hand and consolidated our use of finger patterns to represent the composition of 5. We have used pictorial representations and finger patterns to identify a missing part of 5. Our Year 1 children have represented ‘first, then, now’ stories with addition equations – we have done this using pictorial and abstract representations. In History, we have explained about how we know about the Great Fire of London. We discussed the different sources of information and know that cameras were not invented in 1666. We identified sources which are most and least helpful such as dairy entries and paintings or coins.
In Science, we have learnt that the season we are in is Spring. We looked at photos and know that in Spring the weather gets warmer and the days get longer. We know that some animals are born in Spring and that things start to grow – we discussed which signs of Spring we may see in our outdoor area and which we wouldn’t! On Friday, we took part in lots of different fundraising events to raise money for Comic Relief. We know that some children around the UK and the world aren’t as lucky as we are and that we are raising money to give to them to improve their lives. We raised money by wearing it ‘red-to-toe’, having a bun sale and a sponge throw at Mr Davison! In class we have completed word-searches, had colouring pictures and made faces with red noses! This week we have been learning about ‘under the sea’. We started the week listening carefully to ‘Commotion in the Ocean’. We have learned the names of different sea creatures, the Makaton signs for – crab, dolphin, fish, seahorse, whale, shark and whale and we have learnt some interesting facts about the sea creatures’ habitats and diet! In our Talk through Stories this week we have focused on poetry time and we have been listening carefully to ‘Oh, Oh, the Storyman’ – we are beginning to join in with phrases! We have also enjoyed singing songs related to animals under the sea.
Our provision activities have included; a under the sea jigsaw, using the watercolours to paint under the sea scenes, drawing our favourite sea creature and labelling it, using the peg boards to copy and make under the sea pictures, writing captions to match pictures and using the creative resources to make concertina fish puppets. What a fabulous week we have had! Yesterday, we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as book character and bringing in the related story - we held a circle time where we told everyone our character name and the story/film we were from. Our outfits looked amazing! Throughout the day we had two quizzes – for the first we had to listen to carefully to a description of the story then name it and for the second we had to look at part of a book cover and say which book it was! We have also had the opportunity to make book marks and design our own book covers for our favourite book!
It has been assessment week for our Year 1 children and they have worked hard to complete Maths assessments on Geometry and Addition and Subtraction. They have also worked super hard to write their own version of “Where the Wild Things Are” before going and presenting it to Nursery on World Book Day! Our Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups and have blown me away with their sound knowledge this week – what superstars! In Maths, we have visualised and described spatial arrangements of 6, practised subitising 6 and making and describing arrangements of 6. We have also listened to rhythmic patterns of up to 5 sounds and determined the quantity and recognised Numberblocks and related doubles patterns on our fingers without counting!
In Science, we learnt to identify, name and label basic parts of the human body. We know that we have 5 senses and we can say which part of the body is associates with each sense. In PSHE, we have continued work on knowing some things that that help keep us safe. This week we have discussed stranger danger. This week our learning has been based on polar animals – particularly arctic animals. We started by listening to the story ‘Lost and Found’ which was our Talk through Story for the week. We know that penguins are found in Antarctica not the Arctic. We know that the Arctic is in the far North and that the North Pole is in the Arctic. We learnt the names of different Arctic animals such as; Polar Bear, Arctic Hare, Arctic Fox, Snowy Owl, Reindeer, Seal, Walrus and Husky. We have learnt the Makaton signs for: cold, snow, penguin, snowy owl, polar bear, reindeer and brown bear! Our provision activities have included; using water colours to paint Arctic landscapes, creating igloos, writing about what we can see in the Arctic and in the funky fingers area we have been using shapes, pins and a hammer in a cork board to create pictures!
We started our week off with a Bird of Prey workshop in the hall on Monday where we listened attentively to learn about the owl, buzzard and falcon. We learnt about the different types of breeds, what they like to eat, how old they were, how fast they can fly and how they train them. We could remember from our previous learning what the word ‘nocturnal’ meant and learnt that this particular owl wasn’t nocturnal and it had the same sleep cycle as humans. Whilst in the hall we had to be very quiet and still as the owl flew above our heads. At the end of the day, we were treated to a flying demonstration on the field where the falcon swooped over our heads and soared through the sky before finally catching its ‘prey’.
In Literacy, our Year 1 children have worked hard to write sentences in the past tense using the suffix ‘ed’. We have practised forming capital letters correctly and saying letter names and we have been learning to say, read and write the days of the week. Reception children have started new RWI groups appropriate to their stage of learning. Our Reception children have also started to access handwriting groups! In Maths, our Year 1 children have been adding parts to find the value of the whole and have written equations to match. We then moved on to finding the missing addend in an equation. Next, we have explored partitioning a whole into two parts and have expressed this with a subtraction equation. On Thursday, we made addition and subtraction stories and wrote equations to match. On Monday, Reception children learnt to make and continue ABB patterns. Reception have worked hard on counting this week – we have revisited the rules for counting and we have discussed strategies for counting larger sets! We have counted things that cannot be seen (sounds) and we have counted out 20 objects from larger sets! In History, we have continued our learning on the Great Fire of London. This week we have been ordering the events of the fire. We know that the fire started in a bakery shop on Pudding Lane as the oven fire wasn’t put out correctly and a spark fell onto the wooden floor. We know that it spread because the houses were close together, made out of wood and that it was windy! We also discussed the effect the fire had on London – like houses being built out of different materials and further apart! In Computing, our Year 1’s recapped that buttons are used to give robots instructions. For our first activity we pretended to be robots and we had to follow instructions given to us by Miss Crookes just like the bee-bots have to. This meant we couldn’t do anything we hadn’t been instructed to do. For our second activity, we started by talking to our partner about words or short phrases that are or can be used as instructions (see photo below). For our third activity, we tried giving out the instructions on the list we made as a class with our partners. Partner 1 gave the instruction and Partner 2 acted out the instruction. Finally, we thought of instruction words to move each other around the room – we added these to our class list photo below). We then tried the movement instructions out with each other. In PSHE, we have begun looking at things that keep us safe. We discussed the important of listening to adults and we know that adults give instructions to keep us safe. We have thought about why we must hold an adults hand to cross the road and why we shouldn’t run away from adults in parks, shops, near water or roads – can your child remember any of the reasons why?
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