Our story of the week this week was ‘The Gingerbread Man’. In the writing area children have been taking on the roles of the characters from the story and writing thought bubbles for what they would be thinking if they were that character - we have had some super writing! Children have been using creative materials to create their own gingerbread man. In our funky finger area, we have been using tweezers to place loose parts on the gingerbread man to add the features! Most excitingly of all, we have baked our own gingerbread man!! In Literacy, Year 1’s have begun a new unit of work based on the story ‘Snow White in New York’. We started by listening to the traditional story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. We then carefully answered questions about the story. We then started reading ‘Snow White in New York’ before pausing to make predictions about what the stepmother was plotting. We have learnt that the prefix ‘un’ changes a word into it’s opposite and means not. We then worked hard to had compose and write sentences containing the prefix ‘un’. In Maths, Year 1 children have begun work on their Geometry unit we have been composing pattern block images (looking at what smaller shapes we can see inside shapes) and continuing and developing patterns! In Maths, Reception children were introduced to balance scales. We know that these are used to weigh objects. We know that the heaviest object makes balance scale go down and the lightest object goes up. We then spent the rest of week comparing sets of objects. We have used the language use ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ to describe quantities and we know that it is quantity – not colour, size or type of object – that determines if 1 set has more or fewer items than another. We ended the week using the words ‘an equal number’ to say when there is the same number of items in 2 sets. This week we have completed our pre-unit assessments for our History learning on ‘Why are these people famous? Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London’ and for our Science learning on ‘Animals Including Humans’. We are looking forward to diving into these units next week!
In PSHE, we focused on the statement ‘beginning to control our behaviour in a range of situations’. We looked at sharing and how it can make us feel when our friends won’t share with us. We also spoke about the importance of saying sorry and how it can make others feel better. In Music, we started our learning on the unit 'Combining Pulse, Rhythm and Pitch'. We started by finding and trying to keep a steady beat to a piece of music, we copied back simple long and short rhythms with clapping, warmed our face, body and voice up and copied back simple high and low patterns. Next, we listened and responded to the song 'Days of the Week'. We started by listening to the song, then we played it again where we moved, danced and marched along to the song. We spoke about how the song made us feel and whether we liked it or not. Finally, we had a go at singing the song.
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