Wow! What a busy half-term we have had! Team EO have really enjoyed their learning this half-term - we add learning each week to our learning journey display and then at the end of the half-term it is taken down and transferred into our learning journey book which is kept in the reading area for children to look back on their previous learning1 Have a lovely half-term and we cannot wait for next half-terms learning journey to begin!
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This weeks line of inquiry has been "What's in the egg?". We started by listening to the story 'Am I Yours?' by Alex Latimer. Our Talk through Stories of the week has been 'Gigantosaurus'. We have learnt that dinosaurs are extinct because there are no more living members. We know that some dinosaurs were herbivores and that they had blunt and flat teeth. We know some dinosaurs were carnivores and their teeth were sharp! We learnt that dinosaurs lived in different places such as; wetlands, forests, desert, polar ices and the sea. Our learning activities have included; writing about what we can see in the dinosaur picture, using cotton buds to create a dandelion painting, creating a hatching dinosaur egg, exploring our dinosaur small world and adding spikes to dinosaurs by clipping on tiny pegs to work those finger muscles. We have enjoyed exploring the small world dinosaurs and learning their names. Reception have continued to access appropriate RWI groups and have worked with myself to complete assessments ready for next half-term - they have blown me away! In Literacy Year 1's have learnt about add the suffix -er to words and amazed me at how good they were at adding it to root words. We have also been practising spelling our common exception words and the days of the week. We have had a big focus on reading words using "special friends, Fred Talk, read the word". In Maths, Reception have found ways to partition a set of 5 and we have used what we know about 5 to work out a hidden number. They have also worked with myself to complete a variety of maths tasks relating to counting, comparison, patterns and recalling facts.
Our Year 1 children have been using their knowledge of addition facts within 10 to add within 20 and their knowledge of subtraction facts within 10 to subtract within 20. In Science, we have learnt that all creatures need air, food, shelter and water to survive. We have learnt to name a variety of large habitats including; rainforest, woodland, desert, ocean and polar ice and to name plants in some of these habitats such as orchid and coffee plant in the rainforest, cactus and tumble weed in the desert and dandelion, moss, grass, clover, conifer and shrubs in the woodlands. On Wednesday, Team EO entered the classroom to find Evil Pea sat on top of the interactive whiteboard! We were immediately worried about what chaos the Evil Pea would create in our classroom. As we began to explore provision we found lots of tomatoes and oranges scattered around our classroom!
On Thursday, we were discussing how good Evil Pea had been and we were wondering if he had turned to Super Pea like in the story we have previously read. Then Miss Crookes entered the classroom with a special announcement! Miss Crookes told Team EO how she had received a message telling her to go check the freezer as there was something that had a message saying "Property of Team EO". Miss Crookes then revealed a container with frozen fruits and vegetables in - the Pea had been up to tricks again! We are hoping that over the holidays the Evil Pea gets fed up of waiting for us and that this is the end of his tricks! This week’s line of inquiry has been “What foods are good for you?’. We started the week listening attentively to the story ‘Supertato’ and this has been our Talk through Stories throughout the week. We have discussed how exercise makes us feel and could name the following as things which are good for our health; exercise, sleep, washing hands, brushing teeth, personal hygiene and eating healthy. As a class we made a list of foods that are good for us. Our list included a variation of foods from the different food groups. Our learning activities have included; writing a caption to match the Supertato picture, making a shopping list of different vegetables, creating a repeating pattern printing with a potato, making our very own Supertato, using tweezers to separate the pasta and pea and making a healthy food plate! On Tuesday we received a call from the Evil Pea who informed us that they might come and pay us a visit! Since then we have been busy writing plans on how we might stop the Evil Pea from playing tricks on us – so far we have not seen him! We have a Reception author in Team EO who confidently read her story to her friends at story time on Thursday! Look at this amazing writing - what a superstar! As part of our Talk through Stories learning we have; identified the characters and main characters, learnt about unfamiliar words, learnt favourite phrases, used freeze-frame feelings and joined in with favourite phrases on the fourth read! In Literacy, Year 1’s have finished their short burst narrative. We have continued to access handwriting to ensure letters are formed correctly and we have been practising reading lots of different words using ‘special friends, Fred talk, read the word’. In Maths, Reception children have made and described double facts on their fingers, represented the composition of 5 on die frames, explored the commutativity of addition facts, used rekenreks to explore and represent ‘5 and a bit’ numbers to 10 and used 10-frames to explore ‘5 and a bit’ numbers to 10. Year 1 children started the week identifying the quantity shown in a representation of numbers 11-19, used knowledge of ’10 and a bit’, explored odd and even numbers within 20 and doubled the numbers, halved the result and explained what doubling and halving is! In Science, we have learnt about the 7 life processes using the acronym MRS NERG – movement, respiration, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, reproduction and growth. Can your child remember the definition of each of these terms? In PE, we warmed up with ‘row the boat’. We had to form a line and sit behind each other holding onto each other’s waist and rocked back and forth 10 times, then the friend at the back moved to the front and this continued until our first friend was back at the front. For our main teach, we practised different exercises such as; the plank, front support, back support, beanbag drag, sit-ups and leg raises!
What a fantastic experience the Sunshines had on Wednesday! We had a visit from Michala at Lion Learners and she bought in some animals for us to meet. We did some very carefully listening about how to handle the animals, and how important it was for us to wash our hands before and after handling the animals. We got to meet Timmy the Royal Python, Spinderella the Tarantula, Claude the Bearded Dragon, Nina the Guinea Pig and Xena the Millipede.
Michala demonstrated how to safely interact with the animals and made it clear that if we didn't want to hold or touch them we didn't have to. She gave a choice if we could like to hold some of them, stroke them or have them placed on our leg. While we were holding the animals she told us some really interesting facts. The Royal Python can be found in Africa and has 300 bones. One member of Team EO asked how many bones humans have so after our workshop we used Google to find out and now know that adults have 206 bones and children have 270 which then fuse together! We learnt that Timmy shreds his skin every 3 months to grow. We discussed what Nina like to eat and drink. Spinderella and Claude were both 8 years old and we learnt that Xena has 250 legs! We said they tickled us when we held her! It was wonderful to see how brave, and engaged with the animals the Sunshine were. We had a lovely afternoon and the adults are super proud of everyone! Team EO were amazed on Tuesday morning when they saw how much their broad beans plants had grown and that the sunflowers we planted last week had started to shoot too!
The Sunshines took home their broad bean plants on Tuesday. We would love you to measure them as they grow and send us updates on Seasaw! We have enjoyed observing our sunflower seeds to see how they have grown and changed too! We will bring these home one day next week! This week’s line of inquiry has been “What’s inside a fruit?’. We started the week listening attentively to the story ‘A Fruit is a Suitcase for a Seed’. We learnt that a fruit is a ripened part of a flowering plant that contains seeds and that vegetables grow from plants but do no have seeds in or on them. This helped us to distinguish between different types of fruit and vegetables. We have also enjoyed listening to Oliver’s Fruit Salad and we have been practising singing and signing along to ‘The Planting Song’ and ‘Way Up High in an Apple’. Our learning activities this week have included; making a shopping list of different types of fruits, looking at the inside of different fruits at the seeds and drawing what we can see, sorting photos into fruit and vegetables, making a poster to show how we can stay healthy and in our funky finger area we have been practising our scissors skills to cut out the fruit pieces and sticking them in the bowl to make a fruit salad! In Maths, Year 1 children have started a new unit of learning. We have explained that the digits in the numbers 11-19 express quantity and explained that the digits in the numbers 11 to 19 express position on a number line. Reception children have discussed our understanding of equivalence and made and described double arrangement on fingers, distributed collections into equal and unequal groups, sorted numbers to 10 according to whether each number is a double or not a double and practised rapid recall of double facts to 10. Here we are sharing objects between ourselves and Rosie Rabbit. In Literacy, Year 1 children have been working on writing their alternative short burst for the story “The Whales Song’. We have been working hard to produce independent sentences using capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops accurately, using the conjunction ‘and’ and the suffix ‘es’. We will be finishing these off next week! Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups and are trying super hard to produce independent sentences during morning work and in choosing time. Here some are some of the Sunshines and Rainbows during our first read of 'Six Fish' this morning! In PSHE, we have continued to focus on accepting other people and appreciating different views. This week we looked at what strengths an individual might have, we discussed how we will have our own strengths and that these will be different to others, we then went away and identified our own strengths. We will continue working on identifying our strength and then we will share them with a friend and then share what our friend is good at with the class!
We started the week listening carefully to the story ‘A Tiny Seed’. Our learning activities included; using Fred Fingers to write a list of plants and gardening items, cutting and sticking a life cycle of a sunflower, using the tweezers to fill the numicon with magic seeds, making a cupcake case flower and carrying out observational drawings and paintings of roses. We have learnt about the different stages of a sunflowers and we have learnt about the different parts of a plant – petals, leaf, stem, roots and buds). We have also planted our own sunflower seeds and we cannot wait to watch them grow! We have loved observing our beans they have grown so much since the start of the week! This week for our Talk through Stories we have been practising reciting this half-terms poem ‘Zanzibar’. Reception children continue to access RWI groups and are making good progress in their reading and writing. Year 1 children were hooked into their new learning by closing their eyes and listening to the sounds – they guessed correctly that it was whales. Our new text driver is ‘The Whales Song’ and our purpose is to write a short burst from the story. This week we have been learning about the rule for adding the suffix ‘es’ to words to make them plural. In Maths, Reception children have subitised quantities to 5, say which set of objects contains more than the other, used the rekenreks to push amounts of beads that are equal to, more than and fewer than and ordered towers to 10 – recognising the ‘1 more’ pattern of number. Our Year 1 children started the week learning to explain what happens when a number is subtracted from itself. We then moved onto doubling numbers and know that doubling is when the addends are the same. We have also explored halving and know that halving is the inverse of doubling and is when a number is split into two equal parts. We are fantastic at recalling doubles and halves within 10. In Science, we have begun our new unit of learning ‘Living Things and their habitats’. We started by completing our pre-unit assessment that got stuck straight into our learning on exploring and comparing the difference between things that are living, dead and never been alive. We were amazing at sorting items into the categories – living, dead and never been alive! In PE, we warmed up by travelling around our designated area in a variety of ways – we are working on listening to commands and looking for space to move into. Next, we were put into 6 groups and completed the shuttle run as a relay race – we had to sprint to 3 different distanced cones before returning to the start after each cone. We then had a sprint race where we had to run to the opposite end and back twice. We had lots of fun!
On Thursday, we went on Welly Walk and enjoyed looking at all the flowers in bloom and carrying observational drawings. Team EO love listening to a variety of storybooks and enjoy snuggling up in the tent to share books. Today it was lovely to see the girls choosing to practise their phonics skills in their choosing time!
This week we have explored the question “What do plants need to grow?”. We started the week listening attentively to ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Our learning activities have included; ordering the life cycle of a bean, making a book cover with our name and a beanstalk illustration, building a castle, making a leaf to add to our class beanstalk, writing instructions on ‘How to plant a seed?’ and in our funky finger area we have had a track game where we had to build a beanstalk! On Tuesday, we learnt that plants need soil, water, air and light to grow and we have all planted our own bean seed which are excited to watch grow and we have been observing throughout the week to see if we can see any shoots! We have started to learn “The Planting Song” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a44NFSiIn54) and we have been learning Makaton signs to go with it too! Our Talk through Stories this week was ‘The Bear and The Piano’. We were able to identify the characters and the problem, we have learnt about the meanings of new words and we have taken on the role of the ‘Bear’ and carried out freeze-frames to show how we feel in different scenarios! In Literacy, our Year 1 children have written questions that they wanted to know about their job, they have them presented these to their peers and we have asked Google their questions to find out the answer! In Maths, Reception children have subitised numbers to 5, arranged 6 or 8 objects into groups that can be subitised, shown numbers from 5 to 10 in ‘5 and a bit’ arrangements, counted 20 objects, practised saying the ‘tricky’ teen numbers and practised counting to 100. We have also discussed strategies for counting larger amounts that can’t be moved. Year 1 children have learnt to; explain what happens when 2 is added to or subtracted from odd and even numbers, explain what the difference is between consecutive odd and even numbers and explained what happens when zero is added to or subtracted from a number. In Science, we have looked at the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amount of different types of foods and hygiene. We know that exercise makes our muscles stronger, makes us flexible and improves our circulation. We know that there are 5 food groups and that each food group has an important job. We can name basic hygiene rules that prevent the spread of germs – we know that germs are super small living things that make us poorly!
In PSHE, our enquiry question has been “Why do we like and dislike different things?”. We know that other people have different likes, dislikes and opinions from ourselves and that it is okay but we know that it is still important to listen to the opinions of others. |
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