Our learning question this week has been ‘What’s it like at the seaside’. We started the week listening to the story “Lucy and Tom At the Seaside”. We have also enjoyed listening to a Bluey story ‘The Beach’. We know that the seaside is called the ‘seaside’ because the sea is beside the beach. We have discussed things that we can see at the seaside and what we might do there. We have also discussed how seaside holidays were different in the past to now. We have also learnt that the season is Summer and we know that in Summer the days are longer, the weather is warmer and we can wear Summer clothes! Our learning activities have included; writing a beach bag list, writing ‘I can see’ sentences about the seaside, making an aeroplane/boat, using the watercolour paints to create a seaside picture and we have been carefully tearing and sticking tissue paper to decorate our own beach ball! In our dough area we have enjoyed using ice cream scoops, pots and spoons to serve ice-cream! Our Reception have been working super hard in their handwriting to ensure they are forming letters correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place! We continue to write a short sentence at the end using 'hold a sentence'. Our Year 1 children have worked extremely hard to write their sequel to 'The Smeds and The Smoos'! We finished them off today and we are looking forward to putting them in the envelopes to send off to Julia Donaldson next week! In Maths, our Year 1 children have really impressed with their understanding of money! We have recognised and explained the value of 2p, 5p and 10p coins, explained that a single coin can be worth several pennies, used knowledge of the value of coins to solve problems and calculated the total value of the coins in a set of 2p coins . Reception children have been exploring odd and even numbers. We explored this with a group of children moving around and when the grown-up said stop they had to get in a pair – we know that if someone doesn’t have a partner (cannot make a pair) then the number is odd. We have listened to the story ‘One Odd Day’ where there was only odd numbers in the story and created odd blobby creatures! We have also continued to develop our understanding and learning on time. We know that we use clocks to measure time and that when the big hand points to 12 it is o’clock. We have practised showing lots of different “o’clock” times on our clocks1 In Science, we carried out our inquiry on ‘comparative and fair testing’. Our big question is ‘Do cress seeds grow quicker inside or outside?’. We have made predictions about where we think they will grow quicker and worked as a team to plant cress seeds – we have put one lot on our windowsill inside and the other in our outside area. We cannot wait to see which starts to show signs of growth first!
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