This week we have started our new learning journey ‘Sparkle and Shine’. We have had a fantastic and busy first week back! Our learning has focused on ‘How do we celebrate Bonfire Night, Diwali and Remembrance Day?’. We started the week listening to ‘Sparks in the Sky’. We then learnt about the Gunpowder Plot, we know that it happened in the past and discovered that this is the reason that we celebrate Bonfire Night. We know that Bonfire Night is always celebrated on the 5th November. Next we moved onto the celebration of Diwali and impressed our grown-ups with how we remembered the actions for the characters in the story of Rama and Sita. We were able to join in with the actions and could retell parts of the story. We know that Diwali is the ‘festival of light’ and is celebrated by Hindu’s, Sikh’s and many other religions around the world in October/November. We have also learnt about Remembrance Day and how we remember the soldier who fought for our country in the war – we know we wear poppies to remember. We know that nocturnal animals come out in the dark and know owls, bats, moths, hedgehogs and badgers are all nocturnal animals! Our activities have included; printing with shapes to make Rangoli patterns, printing with potatoes to create poppies, making name rockets, using creative resources to make fireworks and sparklers, ordering the Gunpowder Plot and our funky finger activity has been using the tip of paintbrush to make pre-writing patterns in the glitter! In Literacy, our Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups – some children continue to learn sounds, some children are learning to blend with magnetic boards and some are learning to blend with the pocket chart and the matching green word cards! Our Year 1 children were introduced to our text driver for our new unit of work which is ‘The Highway Rat’ we were able to predict what would happen in the story and answer questions about what we had heard. We have begun to learn about the suffix ‘s’ and know we add this to the end of a word to make it plural. We have practised leaving finger spaces between words and have practised forming some capital letters – T, H, S and I in preparation for our hold a sentences next week. In Maths, our Reception children started the week identifying circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. We have been identifying a ‘whole’ when shown 1 part of a familiar object. We have identified parts of our own body and recognised that some whole objects have parts that cannot be removed and we investigates ways to compose and de-compose sets of 2 and 3. We know that 1 and 2 are parts of 3. Our Year 1 children started the week looking at what a whole object is and explaining that we can split a whole into parts. We have learnt that a whole can represent a group of objects. We then moved on to identifying a part of a whole group. We have learnt what a part whole model is and used it to represent a whole partitioned into two parts. In Science, we have been investigating properties that allow materials to change shape. Our inquiry question was “Can all objects change shape?”. We started by making a class prediction which was “We think that some objects will change shape and some objects won’t because we think some objects are made of hard materials and some are made of soft, bendy materials.”. We looked at several objects made out of different materials and concluded that not all objects can shape. The objects only changed shape when the material was flexible and soft. When the material hard and rigid the objects did not change shape.
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