This week we have thought about and discussed whether all fairy tales have a happy ending and started by listening to “Cinderella”. Throughout the week we have also listened to “Sleeping Beauty” – we concluded that both of these fairy tales have a happy ending and we were very pleased that they did. We have also thought about characteristics of a fairy tale and know that they have a good character, bad character and some magic. For our Talk through Stories this week we have focused on having poetry time where we have begun to learn “Bedtime March-Past” that we look forward to sharing with you at our class assembly. Our learning activities have included; using multi-link cubes to measure the length of wands, copying fairy-tale themed building brick models, writing party invitations and thought bubbles about what we would wish for if we had a fairy godmother, creating wands, crowns and shields and threading the correct number of beads onto the wands. In Literacy, Year 1’s have worked hard to join two sentences together using the conjunction ‘and’. The children have been describing several different settings in preparation for writing the description of the top of the beanstalk. Children have worked hard to ensure their sentences have capital letters, finger spaces and full stops with correctly formed letters. We have also tried to include the conjunction ‘and’ in our own sentences. Reception continue to access their appropriate RWI groups. In Maths, Reception started the week comparing length and height to measure how long/tall an object is. We then used our conceptual subitising to describe parts of a whole set and described the arrangements, next we investigated ways of making 7 using two pars and used our fingers to make and describe 7 as “5 and 2 more”, then we worked out the missing part of 7 using the “5 and a bit” structure and finally we have seen that 7 can be composed in different ways and explained our understanding the composition of 7. Our Year 1 children started the week representing the numbers 6 to 10 using the five and a bit structure, next we identified the whole and parts of the numbers 6-10 using the five and a bit structure, then we explored the numbers 6-10 using the part whole model and the five and a bit structure, finally we explained where 6,7,8 and 9 lie on a number line. In Science, we have learnt that animals are grouped together in ‘families’ based on shared properties and know that the names of the groups are: birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and fish. We have been listening to this song to help us remember them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VixROiu8Qg. We learnt that these animals are similar in that they have vertebrates and we have been identifying animals in each group that we can find in Barnsley and the wider world. In PSHE through oracy, we have explored the question “Why do I need to wash my hands?”. We started by sharing ideas with our talk partner about when we should wash our hands and then we learnt that germs are everywhere and that they are even on our hands. We know that germs are so small that we cannot see them and that if we do not wash them away then we can spread the germs and they will get into our bodies and make us poorly.
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