This week our learning has been focused on Road Safety and the message we have conveyed is ‘stop, look, listen and think’ and we have used the Super Cat Rap to help us remember this. Can your child remember the rap? Within our learning on road safety we have also discussed how we need to be bright to be seen. Rather than our usual Welly Walk this week we went out in smaller groups and really focused on crossing the road safely. Our learning activities this week have included designing a poster to teach others how to be safe when crossing the road, designing our own reflective hi-vis vests, we have been practising careful colouring within the lines and we have been practising our cutting skills by cutting along the patterned lines. Year 1 children have started a new unit of learning within Literacy and our text driver for this unit is ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’. This week we have learnt to add the suffix ‘ing’ when there is no change to the root word and we have been practising leaving spaces between words and practising forming capital letters. The children know that we will be working on sentence structure and our purpose of writing is to read our writing to our favourite teddy that we have chosen to invite to our tea party on the 7th December (more information to follow shortly). Our Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups and it is an absolute pleasure to see how enthusiastic they are about reading and writing! The Reception children love to practise forming their letters and name writing in their own independent learning time – we are so proud of them! In Maths, Reception children started the week continuing to practise describing shapes by playing a game called ‘shape shop’. The Reception children have been practising joining in counting to 10, using their fingers to represent numbers to 5 and to 10 (in the quickest possible way), have continued to develop their understanding of equal amounts, recognised numerals to 5, represented quantities in more abstract ways, such as by clapping or jumping, remembered that the 'stopping number' tells us how many we need altogether and began to understand that when a set of objects is rearranged, its quantity remains the same. Our Year 1 children have partitioning the numbers one to five in a systematic way, found a missing part when one part and the whole is known, shown one more and one less than a number using representations and used a bar model to represent a whole partitioned into two parts. In Science we conducted this half-terms enquiry on researching using secondary sources. We used Google and searched ‘What are the most common British garden flowers?’. Miss Overton named some garden flowers that she thought were common. We then went on a variety of different websites including; CountryLiving, BlueIris Landscapes, Primrose and used the top 10 garden flowers on Google to research whether the names of the flowers Miss Overton had decided on were common. When the name of the flowers appeared on these websites we put a tally mark in the corresponding box. In Computing, our Year 1’s started by looking at the painting by Piet Mondrian. We learnt that he was an artist who was born in 1872 and died in 1944 at the age of 71. We then discussed how we thought the picture had been made and that to make this picture an initial square was drawn then divided into smaller shapes using straight lines. We found out that Mondrian used primary colours: red, yellow, and blue and know from previous learning that primary colours cannot be made from mixing colours together, but they can be mixed together to make other colours. We watched carefully as Miss Stuart modelled creating a piece of Mondrian-inspire-art then it was our turn! Look at some of our amazing pieces of digital art!
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Our learning has focused on anti-bullying week and being kind. We started the week by wearing odd socks and listening to ‘Simon Socks’ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. After listening carefully to the story we spoke about how Simon was sad because he felt left out because he didn’t have a pair. We also discussed that we were wearing odd socks to help us remember that it is not nice to feel left out and we should always try to play with others. We have thought about the different ways we can show kindness such as; smiling at people, offering to help, checking others feel okay and giving a hug to name a few. We have learnt that being kind can make others feel happy. As part of anti-bullying week we have also enjoyed listening to several Elmer stories. The Elmer story taught us that it is okay to be different. We looked at the ways we are different such as; eye colour, hair colour, who we live with, if we have any pets, the languages we speak and our favourite fruit. Our learning activities this week have included; matching the pairs of socks, creating our own odd socks, creating an Elmer and using a pipette to fill the holes on Duplo with water. Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups. Our Year 1 children have worked hard to hold sentences and have produced amazing writing with capital letter, finger spaces and full stops. We then practised re-reading our sentences before we went to present our writing to Miss Clementson and the Rainbows. We could speak with confidence about what our text driver was and what we had been working on! In Maths, Reception children started the week learning to describe the properties of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles and we will continue with this next week. We have investigated ways to compose and de-compose sets of 3 and know that 1 and 2 are parts of 3. We have also investigated ways to compose and de-compose 4 and used spatial language to describe our stampoline patterns and we also investigated ways to compose and de-compose 5. Year 1 children have used a part-whole model to represent a whole partitioned into more than two, explained that numbers can represent how many objects there are in a set, explained that ordinal numbers show a position and not a set of objects and partitioned the numbers one to five in different ways. In Geography, we looked at our local area and learnt to identify physical and human features of geography within Wombwell. In Computing, our Year 1 children began the new unit on ‘Creating Media – Digital Painting’. Within this lesson they used Paint and explored the different freehand tools – paintbrush, pencil, eraser, fill tool, spray can and undo tools to create a picture of themselves.
Today the Sunshines learnt about the fantastic cause of Children in Need and we have had a fun filled day! We took part in lots of different activities including colouring Pudsey pictures, designing Pudsey t-shirts, guessing the number of sweets in the jar to raise some money and buying buns to raise money for children in Need. Pudsey also lost all of his spots so we went on a spot hunt in our outdoor area to find them all!
This week we have started our new learning journey ‘Sparkle and Shine’. We have had a fantastic and busy first week back! Our learning has focused on ‘How do we celebrate Bonfire Night, Diwali and Remembrance Day?’. We started the week listening to ‘Sparks in the Sky’. We then learnt about the Gunpowder Plot, we know that it happened in the past and discovered that this is the reason that we celebrate Bonfire Night. We know that Bonfire Night is always celebrated on the 5th November. Next we moved onto the celebration of Diwali and impressed our grown-ups with how we remembered the actions for the characters in the story of Rama and Sita. We were able to join in with the actions and could retell parts of the story. We know that Diwali is the ‘festival of light’ and is celebrated by Hindu’s, Sikh’s and many other religions around the world in October/November. We have also learnt about Remembrance Day and how we remember the soldier who fought for our country in the war – we know we wear poppies to remember. We know that nocturnal animals come out in the dark and know owls, bats, moths, hedgehogs and badgers are all nocturnal animals! Our activities have included; printing with shapes to make Rangoli patterns, printing with potatoes to create poppies, making name rockets, using creative resources to make fireworks and sparklers, ordering the Gunpowder Plot and our funky finger activity has been using the tip of paintbrush to make pre-writing patterns in the glitter! In Literacy, our Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups – some children continue to learn sounds, some children are learning to blend with magnetic boards and some are learning to blend with the pocket chart and the matching green word cards! Our Year 1 children were introduced to our text driver for our new unit of work which is ‘The Highway Rat’ we were able to predict what would happen in the story and answer questions about what we had heard. We have begun to learn about the suffix ‘s’ and know we add this to the end of a word to make it plural. We have practised leaving finger spaces between words and have practised forming some capital letters – T, H, S and I in preparation for our hold a sentences next week. In Maths, our Reception children started the week identifying circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. We have been identifying a ‘whole’ when shown 1 part of a familiar object. We have identified parts of our own body and recognised that some whole objects have parts that cannot be removed and we investigates ways to compose and de-compose sets of 2 and 3. We know that 1 and 2 are parts of 3. Our Year 1 children started the week looking at what a whole object is and explaining that we can split a whole into parts. We have learnt that a whole can represent a group of objects. We then moved on to identifying a part of a whole group. We have learnt what a part whole model is and used it to represent a whole partitioned into two parts. In Science, we have been investigating properties that allow materials to change shape. Our inquiry question was “Can all objects change shape?”. We started by making a class prediction which was “We think that some objects will change shape and some objects won’t because we think some objects are made of hard materials and some are made of soft, bendy materials.”. We looked at several objects made out of different materials and concluded that not all objects can shape. The objects only changed shape when the material was flexible and soft. When the material hard and rigid the objects did not change shape.
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