This week our learning has been focused on Spooky Surprises and Halloween. We started the week by listening to the story ‘Funny Bones’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We learnt that a surprise is something that is unexpected. Our activities this week have all been Halloween themed and we have had a very week. In the creative area, we have been drawing an outline of a pumpkin and then using PVA/pritt sticks to glue on squares and triangles for the eyes, nose and mouth. We have also been making ghosts by drawing an outline of a ghost and using PVA glue to stick on cotton wool we have then added on spooky looking eyes! In the writing area, been drawing and writing about what we would put in our cauldron to create a potion! We have also been using our Fred Fingers to write the CVC Halloween words in the phoneme frames. In the small world area, we carved a pumpkin to use as a tunnel and used the train track to create a spooky train ride! In the funky fingers area, we have used the tweezers to remove the spiders from the web! We have also enjoyed singing lots of Halloween songs such as ‘Halloween is Coming’ and ‘5 Little Pumpkins’. For our Talk through Stories sessions this week we have been enjoying the book ‘Room on the Broom’. In Literacy, our Year 1 children have worked hard to punctuate a sentence independently with a capital letter and full stop mostly correct through hold a sentence. We have tried hard to form our letters correctly and leave spaces between words. In Maths, our Year 1 children have been introduced to the equality and inequality symbols (<, > and =). We have used them to compare sets of objects and to compare expressions. In Maths, our Reception children have practised subitising amounts to 4, revisited ‘more than’ or ‘fewer than’ by looking, compare groups of up to 3 objects by matching them 1:1, said when they have an equal number, built towers with an equal number of squares, matched the squares in the towers 1:1 and said when there is an equal number, too many or not enough. In Geography, we took a birds eye tour of each capital city of the UK, we listened carefully to the name of each landmark and had to decide whether it was a physical or human feature of geography - we were fabulous at this! Our Year 1 children then went away to complete their learning activity - they had to name the 2 pictured landmarks for each capital city and circle to identify whether it was a physical or human feature. We have some budding geographers! In RE, we began by recapping that the religion we are learning about is Judaism and was introduced to the Star of David. We were able to recall that the special Jewish scroll is called a 'Torah' and that the special Christian book is called the 'Bible'. We listened carefully to Noah's Ark which is a story for the Torah in the book of Genesis. After we had listened carefully as a class we were able to join in with retelling the story. We then used the story sequencing cards to sequence and retell the story as we made our own book of Noah's Ark! What fabulous learning we have had in RE this week! In PSHE our focus this week was on recognising and naming emotions. We started by looking at photos of other children and we had to decide how they were feeling. We were able to say things that made us happy, what cheered us up when we were sad and what we could do if we felt scared. We then listened attentively to the story 'The Colour Monster'. In the story yellow is happiness, blue is sadness, red is anger, black is fear, green is calm and by the end of the story the monster is pink, he feels loved. For our activity, we had to listen carefully to the emotions being read and match them to the correct colour monster.
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In Team EO we have a learning journey displayed so that we can recall and discuss our learning over the course of the half-term. At the end of each half-term the display is taken down and stuck into our learning journey floor book that is kept in the reading area so that children can continue to enjoy revisiting our previous learning and strengthen their knowledge. Here is our learning journey display for Autumn 1 on our 'Marvellous Me!' topic. Team EO staff hope you all have a lovely, restful half-term and we cannot wait for our next learning journey to begin - 'Sparkle and Shine'!
Today we took park in a dance workshop that introduced us to the Hindu festival of Diwali – the Festival of Light. We performed a dance that told the story of Rama and Sita.
We showed excellent listening skills as we were introduced to poses for Rama, Sita, Ravana and the diva lamps and different moves which helped us to create our dance. We are excited to be learning more about this festival after half-term and on Friday as a school we will be 'wearing it bright' to celebrate Diwali. We started the week reading the story “In Every House on Every Street” by Jess Hitchman. We know there are different types of houses - flat, bungalow, terrace, detached and semi-detached. We have learnt to say that we live in Wombwell near Barnsley in England. We know that we can use Google Earth to find where we live and we had lots of fun on Tuesday and Wednesday trying to find our house on Google Earth on the IWB and iPad using school as a starting point. Our activities have all been linked to houses! In the creative and painting area we have made some wonderful junk modelled houses using the lollipop sticks to create the outline of our houses! We have been drawing and colouring pictures of our houses and we have been using the different construction resources such as the wooden blocks and Duplo to build houses – we have even been building different parts of our homes such as garages! This week for our funky finger activity we had to roll the dice, use the tweezers to pick up the cubes to build a tower! On Thursday, we enjoyed playing a game of Jenga with our friends - we practised turn-taking and teamwork to rebuild the tower when it fell over! Reception children are continuing to work hard in their RWI groups to learn and consolidate previously taught sounds. In Maths, we have had a focus on counting, ordinality and cardinality. We know that the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ things there are altogether in a set of objects – and we have practised their 1:1 correspondence skill, by counting numbers at the same time as moving or tagging objects. We know that we have 5 fingers on one hand and that ‘5 and 5 makes 10 altogether’. Year 1 children have continued practising letter formation and will be moving on to hold a sentence next week – we will still be ensuring letters are formed correctly! In Maths, we have; explained that items can be compared using length and height, explained that items can be compared using weight/mass and volume/capacity, practised counting a set of objects and compared a set of objects. In Science, we have been thinking about suitable uses for a range of materials and used our knowledge of properties to say why that material is good for the given object.
In RE, we have started our learning on Judaism. We started by Miss Overton sharing her favourite special book with us which was ‘Superworm’. We then learnt that the special book/scroll for Jews is called a ‘Torah’ which contains the 5 books of Moses. In PSHE, over the last 2 weeks we have been thinking about what makes us special. This is something that we have found tricky so our friends have been giving us ways in which we are special. These have been recorded down and will be shared with the children throughout the year as a reminder as to why they are special! For our Talk through Stories story sessions this week we have been enjoying the book ‘Five Minutes Peace’! Our Reception children started this session reviewing Ginger's 'rules of listening' and ensuring everyone was showing good listening before we beginning. We recapped that when someone is happy their; mouth will be smiling, head will be lifted high and eyes will be wide open and when they are sad their; mouth is turned down, eyes are small and head is lowered.
We listened carefully to the poem 'Bears bears everywhere' and discussed how the words in it rhymed. We then took turns holding Ginger and we had to listen carefully to the scenarios Miss Hansom described and say whether they would make Ginger feel happy/sad. Some of the scenarios included:
Next, we went around our circle and each made a happy/sad face and we had to say how our friends were feeling. We had some really thoughtful members of Team EO in the circle as when they could see their friends were sad they asked if they were okay! Finally, we spent time with our friends colouring in pictures of Ginger looking happy and sad! This week our learning has been focused around the question “What jobs are in the community?”. We started the week reading ‘When We Grow Up’ by Melanie Walsh which introduced us to a variety of jobs and explained what these jobs involved. Following on from this we used our stem sentence “When I grow up I want to be…” with our talk partners and then shared our ideas back as a class. Team EO have lots of ambitious careers such as ballerina, rockstar, vet, doctor, teacher, engineer, builder and firefighter to name a few. We also listened to the stories ‘When I Grow Up’ by Tim Minchin and ‘A Superhero Like You’ by Dr Ranj. As part of our learning this week our home corner was turned into a bakers, we have been junk modelling emergency vehicles and drawing pictures to show what we want to be when we grow up! For our funky finger activity this week we have been seeing how many hoops we can thread on a strand of spaghetti in a minute. We have continued to explore our Autumn investigation area. We have continued to learn and enjoy listening to the poem ‘Cake-o-saurus’. A copy has now been sent home for your to share with your poem! Reception children continue to work in RWI groups and have been put into new groups this week. Some children are consolidating previously taught sounds to ensure they are secure in them whilst others continue to learn sounds. Children are working on blending to read using magnetic boards and green word cards. In maths, we have been playing a game of 'show me' - where Miss Overton says a number and children have to show that many number of fingers and then show it in a different way. The children have been comparing 2 sets of objects and identifying which is ‘more than’ and which is ‘fewer than’. We have also been learning to use the positional language; ‘over’, ‘under’, ‘through’ and ‘around’. Year 1 have continued to practise letter formation ensuring they are formed correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place. They are getting really confident at writing the tricky red words we have been practising. In Maths, we have continued counting within 100, we have had a specific focus on counting forwards clapping on each multiple of 10, counting from a given number and recognising numerals on a 100. Additionally, we have used the number line on BrainingCamp to count within 100 and we have been working on identifying numbers by counting on from the previous multiple of 10. On Tuesday, in Computing our Year 1 learners started by recapping that the computer mouse is an input device. We learnt that a keyboard is an input device that allows us to write using a computer. We looked at different types of keyboards and discussed similarities and differences – we concluded that even though they look different they all perform the same function. Next, we opened the Paint app and used the text tool to write words. We learnt that to use the text tool we need to select it using a single click on the mouse, we insert the text box by clicking and dragging. We explored the text function by typing our names – we found it quite tricky so this is something we need to keep practising but we worked hard. We learnt that the space bar should be pressed once to leave a space in between words just like a finger space. Our next job was to alter the size and colour of our text. We then saved our learning into our designated file by typing our name and the date. On Wednesday, Team EO carried out our pattern seeking investigation our enquiry question was ‘Do all apples have the same number of seeds?’. Each talk partner was given an apple cut in half, we had to carefully count how many seeds were in each apple and report our findings to Miss Overton who recorded them in the table below. We looked at our findings and concluded there was not a pattern to the number of seeds in an apple. In Geography, we have begun learning about human and physical features of geography. We know that human features are made by people and physical features are made by nature. Year 1’s then used the Odizzi human and physical features worksheet to name the pictured features. On Welly Walk, we worked in pairs to complete an Autumn scavenger hunt!
In todays session, our Reception children started by reviewing Ginger's 'rules of listening' - we are getting super good at remembering all 4!
We then listened carefully to the poem 'Fuzzy Wuzzy'. Next, we looked at two pictures of Ginger and we had to guess how she was feeling and say why we thought she was happy/sad. We learnt that when someone is happy their...
For our activity this week we used mirrors to show ourselves looking happy and sad. We then used a large roll of paper and felt tip pens to make happy/sad faced. This week in school we have been having a focus on healthy eating, so today in Team EO as part of our PSHE learning we learnt about being healthy and healthy eating. We started by considering how we could keep ourselves healthy – the children came up with lots of wonderful ideas linked to healthy eating. We then learnt that there are 4 main ways that we can keep our bodies healthy; regular exercise, healthy eating, having a positive attitude and a good sleep schedule. We will learn more about why these are important for us later in the year. The children were asked if they knew how many portions of fruit and vegetables they should eat in a day. We had some guesses such as 3 and 4 but learnt that it is 5 portions. We learnt that a portion of fruit or vegetables is the same size of the palm of your hand. Children were then asked how we many portions of fruit and veg they had eaten today. Lots of children showed 2 – their fruit at snack time and the vegetable that came with their dinner. Next we learnt that as part of a healthy balanced diet, as well as fruit and veg, we should try and eat meat and fish and eggs, milk and cheese daily. Next we discussed ‘unhealthy food’ and how we should eat these only in smaller quantities as they are not good for our bodies.
As part of our oracy learning, we held a circle time to discuss what our favourite healthy food is. We tried extremely hard to use the stem sentence “My favourite healthy food is…”. We had wonderful answers such as banana’s, grapes, watermelon, cucumber and carrots to name a few. Finally we finished our learning by trying a new fruit that we had learned about in our ‘Hello Autumn’ book – blackberries. Some of us liked them and some of us didn’t we said they were ‘sour’ and ‘juicy’. On Monday the Reception children accessed their second 'Time to Talk' session. This session focused on teaching children how to be good listeners; for this we shared Ginger Bears' rules with the children and for our activity we had to take a photo of each other sat showing good listening. Here are some of our photos:
This week our learning has been focused around the question “What is Autumn?”. Our book of the week was “Hello Autumn”. The children know that the season we are in is Autumn and that The autumn months are September, October and November. We have learnt that in Autumn it turns colder and rains more than in Summer. The children know that the leaves change and fall from trees – we have described some of the leaves as ruby red and golden yellow! From our book we have discussed the meaning of the following words and tried to use them in sentences: stumbled, beamed and hollered. Can your child remember what they mean? Our learning activities this week have included; exploring our Autumn objects (leaves, conkers, acorns), leaf printing in the dough, painting Autumnal trees (focus on mixing Autumn colours), using our Tommy thumbs and Peter pointer fingers to pick the small sequin leaves off of a tray in a race against the timer and we have been drawing pictures about what we can see in Autumn. We have also been introduced to the poem ‘Cake-o-saurus’ – watch out for a copy being sent home over the coming week. You can talk about the poem and encourage your child to join in with it where they can. This should be an enjoyable activity! Reception children continue to work in RWI groups to learn new sounds – this week the children have been taught ‘c’., ‘k’, ‘u’ and ‘b’. Some children continue to use magnetic boards to learn to blend and some children will be moving on to reading green word cards next week! In Maths, the children have been building on their subitising skills – subitising auditory patterns and dot arrangements to 4. They have also been making their own patterns of 4 and describing the arrangements using spatial language. Year 1 have continued to practise letter formation ensuring they are formed correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place. They are getting really confident at writing the tricky red words we have been practising. In Maths, we have continued to count within 100 with a focus on counting backwards! The children have also been counting forwards and making groups of 10 to work out how many counting straws they have. In Science, we have continued to identify and name a variety of everyday materials. We then discussed different properties of a material and how a material is chosen for an object based on its properties. We discussed how it would be no good for wellies to be made from paper as it was not waterproof and all our feet would get wet and how it would be no could for reading glasses to be made from wood as we would not be able to see through them! We then learnt the names of key properties and what these key properties meant using MTYT. Our activity was to sort the bag of objects into the sorting circles based on the properties in each sorting circle. In Music, we started by completing a baseline quiz we have to say whether the notes played were the same length, shorter or longer. Next we had to find and keep a steady beat by moving our bodies in different ways and clap out long and short rhythmic patterns. We warmed our faces up by scrunching them up small and making them as big as possible. Then we warmed our voices using high and low pitches. We found the beat to the song and finally began learning the first verse of the song ‘Find the Beat’. We have also recapped the capital cities of the United Kingdom and the surrounding seas.
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