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!
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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?
This week our learning has been based around ‘Wild Animals’. We started the week listening to the story ‘Dear Zoo’. We said that the wild animals wouldn’t make good pets and may be quite dangerous! We have written our ‘Dear Zoo’ book each child worked hard to use there Fred Fingers to write the name of the animal they had chosen and what was wrong with it! Our provision learning activities have included; playing the ‘Visit the Zoo’ board game, colouring in the spiral snake before using our carefully cutting skills to cut along the dashed lines, we have tried very hard to use different junk modelling resources to create our own wild animals and in the funky fingers area we have been using our Peter Pointer and Tommy Thumb to peel stickers and place them along the outline of shapes. In our small world area, we have been using the animals to create our own zoos! Our Talk through Story of the week was “Where the Wild Things Are” – the children listened attentively to the story, answered questions about the story, joined in with favourite phrases and took on the role of the Wild Things doing freeze-frame expressions!
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.
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! |
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