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!
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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!! 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!
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.
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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