All the staff in Team EO would like to wish our children and families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We hope you all enjoy spending time with your loved ones and are looking forward to welcoming you back in new year!
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This week we have continued to enjoy lots of festive activities. We started the week listening to the story ‘We’re Going on a Elf Chase’ and we have enjoyed listening to lots of different Christmas stories throughout the week such as ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ and ‘We’re Going on a Present Hunt’. Our learning activities have included getting creative and making a stable with baby Jesus, writing Christmas cards to send to our friends and in our funky fingers area we have been practising our cutting skills by cutting along different shaped lines! We have also been busy finishing our cards and calendars which we hope that you like! On Monday afternoon, we held a Christmas Craft afternoon and it was lovely to see so many grown-ups come along and craft alongside their child! The children thoroughly enjoyed having their special people in school to enjoy the festive activities with them. We hope you enjoyed it too. On Wednesday afternoon we had our Christmas party in our classroom – oh, what fun we had! We started our party by tucking into our delicious party food at dinner time we had – a sandwich, pizza slice, sausage roll, cucumber, pepper, carrot sticks and a chocolate bun! When we got back into class we dove straight into our party games. We played pass the parcel, musical statues and then we sat in a circle and in the middle of the circle were cups with Freddo’s in. We had to bounce or throw the ball into the cup to win our cup for juice and our Freddo! Our was successful and we persevered until we had got the ball in. We ended our party by sitting down with juice and popcorn and watching ‘Stickman’. In Literacy, Year 1’s started the week holding and writing a sentence. On Wednesday they compose their own sentence about Zog and on Thursday they presented it to Team CH. In Maths, our Year 1 children have been recapping this terms’ learning through fun Christmas activities – we have counted objects, filled in missing numbers and used the equality and inequality symbols to compare numbers within 100. Our Reception children have represented 4 in different ways on a die frame, used their fingers to represent 6 as ‘5 and a bit’, used double dice frames to represent 6 as 5 and 1 more and seen that 5 and ‘2 more’ make 7. In Geography, to conclude our learning on “What’s it like in different parts of the UK?”, we began by identifying the different continents that the United Kingdom and Mexico lie on. We then moved on to comparing the similarities and differences between Tocuaro and Wombwell. We looked at the population of each place, discussed the weather and then looked at the human and physical features!
We have also talked about our route to the nature reserve and we have used the following direction words: down, through, across and up. We have been working hard to practise singing and signing for our amazing nativity play over the last few weeks and were very excited to perform it to you on Wednesday afternoon! Our nativity was a fun and exciting way for us learn about the Christmas story,
Our hard work and enthusiasm shone through and we had an amazing time performing it. We hope that our special people from home who came to watch it enjoyed it and felt just as proud as all the Team CW and Team EO staff did of the Rainbows and Sunshines. Here we are in our costumes - we looked brilliant! We are sure you will agree! This week our focus question was “What is the nativity?”. We know that the nativity tells the story of the birth of Baby Jesus and that this is what we celebrate at Christmas. We learnt that Christmas is celebrated by Christians. We listened carefully to ‘The Christmas Story’ and compared it to our nativity performance. We spoke about how our nativity tells the Christmas story through reading, singing and signing. We had an amazing time performing our nativity to our special people and I think you will agree we were absolutely incredible! This weeks’ independent learning activities have linked to Christmas. In our funky finger area we have been creating paper chains, in the painting area we have been printing with our fingers to add baubles to the Christmas tree template and in the creative area we have been colouring and sticking onto star and angel templates which we are sending to St Mary’s Church and they are going to hang them from the ceiling in the church! In our writing area we have been writing letters to Santa using the toy catalogue to help us and we have posted these in our letterbox then Buddy has been taking them to Santa each night. We have also been practising writing simple CVC words linked to Christmas! In Literacy, our Year 1 children were hooked into their new unit of writing with our text driver ‘Zog’ the children listened carefully to the story and were able to join in with the repeated refrains and phrases. We were able to answer simple questions about the text. We know that in this unit that our audience is Team CH and our purpose is to compose a sentence to read aloud to them. In Maths, our Reception children started the week learning to use time language including day, night, today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, before and after. We then showed the numbers to 5 on our fingers, learnt to see that 5 can be partitioned into 4 and 1 and 3 and 2, explored ways to partition a set of 5 and explained what the parts are and used what they know about 5 to work out a hidden number. In Geography, we have learnt about the village of Tocuaro, Mexico. We learnt that Mexico lies on the continent of North America and we were able to locate Mexico on a map of North America. We learnt that Tocuaro, Mexico has a population of 600, it has 3 shops and 1 church that is pink! We know that these are human features. We identified that in Tocuaro the physical features are mountains and the lake. In Science, we carried out an investigation into ‘Do objects move the same on all surfaces?’. We started by predicting what we thought might happen then shared our ideas with our talk partner and then we came up with a class prediction. We predicted that the object will not travel the same on all surfaces because some may be rough and other may be smooth. We carried out our investigation and recorded how far the car travelled with one small push on each surface and then identified the surface that the car travelled furthest on. This was the plastic. We then worked as a team to conclude our investigation. We concluded that objects do not move the same on all surfaces. The car did not travel the same distance on all the surfaces because some were rough and some were smooth. We know from our learning last week that the resistance is greater on a rough surface and therefore the object will travel less.
In Literacy, Year 1 children have worked hard to hold sentences ensuring they are punctuated correctly with a capital letter and full stop. On Wednesday we composed our own sentences about what the tiger was doing and on Thursday we enjoyed our tea party with our favourite teddy where we read them our wonderful sentences! We continue to work hard practising our letter formation – please ensure your child is practising at home (starting and finishing in the correct place). In Maths, for our Year 1 children it has been assessment week and they have completed a 15-mark reasoning paper – they have made Miss Overton super proud! We have also been learning to reason about the location of numbers to 20 on a number line. Children know that 5 is located halfway between 0 and 10 and therefore 15 is located halfway between 10 and 20 as they both have 5 ones. The children have worked hard on locating the correct position of numbers on number lines and explaining how they know that it goes there! Our Reception children have continued to recognise and order numerals from 1-5, match numerals to quantities in order, built towers in order from 1-5 squares, seen the staircase pattern and recognised that each number is 1 more and represented staircase patterns in different ways, knowing that each new ‘step’ is 1 more than the last. Our Art learning this week has linked closely to our learning on rainbows! This week we have revisited colour mixing and looked at the work of Kandinsky. We know that Kandinsky was a Russian painter. When we looked at his painting we could identify that he had used circles and squares to create his painting as well primary and secondary colours! I am sure you will agree that we did a fantastic job at recreating the work of Kandinsky. In Science we have been learning about resistance and friction. We know that resistance is a force that slows down a moving objects and that friction occurs when two things rub against each other. The children experimented with cars and two different surfaces and now know that when the surface is smooth the resistance is less and the further the car will travel. They also know that when the surface is rough the resistance is more and the less the car will travel.
We started the week learning that a rainbow is a sign of luck and of better things to come and listened carefully to the story of Noah’s Ark – we could remember it from our previous RE learning! The children have worked hard to learn the Makaton signs for colours and we have used the Mr Tumble ‘I can sing a rainbow’ to support this learning. We know that a rainbow is formed when the sunlight shines through the raindrops.
Our provision activities have included; creating a tissue paper rainbow collage, using the peg boards to make pictures, using the small world Noah’s Ark to retell the story, writing rainbow simile poems and our most loved activity this week has been the bubble painting! On Wednesday it was our Christmas Dinner Day! We were all very excited for our school Christmas dinner and when we got into the hall we got even more excited as we heard the Christmas music playing and saw the Christmas crackers upon the tables. We had fun pulling the crackers, wearing our crowns and listening to the jokes and just generally enjoying our friends company!
Here we are tucking into our delicious dinners! This week we have been learning about day and night – we started the week listening to the story ‘Night Monkey and Day Monkey’. We know that daytime is when the sun is in the sky and there is light and that at night time the moon and the stars are visible in the sky. We know that we don’t see the sun at night and the sky is dark at night. This led us into discussion about what is darkness? We learnt that darkness is the absence of light and we learnt to name different light sources such as the sun, torches, lamps, street lights and candles! We then looked at different activities and decided whether we did them in the daytime, night time or both such as; eating breakfast, brushing teeth, go to school, have a wash and brush hair! We have thought about nocturnal animals (the children were excellent at recalling what this word means) and could name the 5 nocturnal animals we have previously learnt about!
Our learning activities this week have included; using oil pastels to create day and night pictures, painting handprint monkeys, writing about what we can see in the day and night and in the dough, we have been making hedgehogs by adding matchsticks for spikes and googly eyes! For our funky finger activity, we have been using tweezers to balance marbles on golf tees! Today the Sunshines learnt about the significant individual Rosa Parks. We started by listening to an adapted version of Tusk, Tusk by David McKee and we spoke about how it wasn't nice to treat people differently just because they were different. The Sunshines even said that the elephants in Tusk Tusk wouldn't like Elmer as he was a brightly coloured patchwork elephant! After the story we discussed how we have previously learnt about how everybody is different and that this is what makes us special and unique and just because we are all different doesn't mean we can't all be friends. We thought about how we are different those we were sat next to - we could identify could identify that some people wore glasses and some don't, some have blue eyes and some don't and that some people had long hair and other had short hair. We said that this is all okay.
We learnt that Rosa Parks lived in the past and that when she was alive people were treated differently for being different - just like the elephants. We learnt that when Rosa Parks was alive people were kept apart from each other because of their difference - we discussed how we would feel if we were kept apart from our friends for being different. We heard how Rosa Parks fought for equality and said this meant she fought for everyone to be treated the same despite their differences. We ended with the following positive thoughts using MTYT:
We have had a busy week full of wonderful learning! All children continue to access an appropriate RWI group – can your child tell you the sounds they have learnt this week? In Literacy, our Year 1 children have been detectives ensuring given sentences were correctly punctuated with a full stop and if not added one! We have worked really hard to hold sentences this week and punctuate them correctly! We continue to work on forming letters correctly! In Maths, Reception children are becoming experts at describing circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. We have continued to recognise numerals to 5, show quantities on 1 hand quickly and developed our conceptual subitising skills. We have been recreating arrangements of 3,4 and 5 dots and matching these to the correct numerals, recognised die arrangements and used the dice to link subitised amounts with 1 to 1 counting actions! Here we are in action making our own dot arrangements to match a previously shown one - we had to take pictures of it with our eyes and try and remember how the dots were arranged! Our Year 1 children have partitioned numbers one to five in a systematic, shown one more and one less than a number using representations and described them and counted a set of objects and matched the spoken number to the written numeral and number name. In music, we enjoyed beginning our ‘Music is in my soul’ topic. We worked hard to find and keep a steady beat, we played copycat rhythms, took it in turns to talk about the song and explore feelings, thoughts and emotions towards the song and tried to use musical language when describing the music. We sung together as a group, moved to the music and had lots of fun!!
In PSHE, we told our peers about our interests, family and experiences. In our circle times, we spoke in full sentences to say who was in our family and an activity that we like doing. We were very good at listening to our peers and waiting for our turn to talk! In Computing, Year 1 children started by looking at a picture of Henri Matisse. We learnt that he was an artist who was born in 1869 and died in 1954 and that in his later years, when he become ill, Matisse created collages made from cut-up pieces of paper. Next we looked at a picture of his artwork and spotted familiar shapes and understood that Matisse used bright colours. We thought about the following tools and whether they would be good for creating our own Snail painting on the computer. We said that we wouldn’t need to use the paintbrush/pencil as we didn’t need freehand lines – we decided the shapes would be better to use. We discussed how the paint pot was good for block filling shapes and the undo tool would be helpful if our shapes go wrong or if we coloured a block in the wrong colour. Then it was our turn to create our own interpretations of Matisse’s Snail! Team EO have also been working exceptionally hard to learn our nativity songs and lines – we are super excited for you to see it!! |
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