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!
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