We started the week listening carefully to the story ‘A Tiny Seed’. Our learning activities included; using Fred Fingers to write a list of plants and gardening items, cutting and sticking a life cycle of a sunflower, using the tweezers to fill the numicon with magic seeds, making a cupcake case flower and carrying out observational drawings and paintings of roses. We have learnt about the different stages of a sunflowers and we have learnt about the different parts of a plant – petals, leaf, stem, roots and buds). We have also planted our own sunflower seeds and we cannot wait to watch them grow! We have loved observing our beans they have grown so much since the start of the week! This week for our Talk through Stories we have been practising reciting this half-terms poem ‘Zanzibar’. Reception children continue to access RWI groups and are making good progress in their reading and writing. Year 1 children were hooked into their new learning by closing their eyes and listening to the sounds – they guessed correctly that it was whales. Our new text driver is ‘The Whales Song’ and our purpose is to write a short burst from the story. This week we have been learning about the rule for adding the suffix ‘es’ to words to make them plural. In Maths, Reception children have subitised quantities to 5, say which set of objects contains more than the other, used the rekenreks to push amounts of beads that are equal to, more than and fewer than and ordered towers to 10 – recognising the ‘1 more’ pattern of number. Our Year 1 children started the week learning to explain what happens when a number is subtracted from itself. We then moved onto doubling numbers and know that doubling is when the addends are the same. We have also explored halving and know that halving is the inverse of doubling and is when a number is split into two equal parts. We are fantastic at recalling doubles and halves within 10. In Science, we have begun our new unit of learning ‘Living Things and their habitats’. We started by completing our pre-unit assessment that got stuck straight into our learning on exploring and comparing the difference between things that are living, dead and never been alive. We were amazing at sorting items into the categories – living, dead and never been alive! In PE, we warmed up by travelling around our designated area in a variety of ways – we are working on listening to commands and looking for space to move into. Next, we were put into 6 groups and completed the shuttle run as a relay race – we had to sprint to 3 different distanced cones before returning to the start after each cone. We then had a sprint race where we had to run to the opposite end and back twice. We had lots of fun!
On Thursday, we went on Welly Walk and enjoyed looking at all the flowers in bloom and carrying observational drawings.
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