Arctic Animals and this weeks learning!

Our theme this week was the ‘Arctic’. We were able to remember that the Arctic is a continent and Team EO impressed me with how they could name the other 6 continents! It seems our song 7 Continent Song has really helped our children – here is the link if you want to listen at home with your child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE.

We started the week discovering what it was like in the Arctic and we learnt the names of different Arctic animals such as; Polar Bear, Arctic Hare, Arctic Fox, Snowy Owl, Reindeer, Seal, Walrus and Husky. We also learnt different facts about these animals which we had to remember for a ‘What animal am I?’ quiz later in the week! We have been exploring using watercolour paints to paint Arctic landscapes – we learnt that we don’t need too much water though as it makes our paper go all soggy! Some of us began to used the ideas and techniques from our new junk modelling books to help us better our creations.

We also enjoyed looking at our class picture of us in our World Book Day costumes - we were able to spot ourselves and friends and we had lovely discussions about the books the characters were from!

In Literacy, Year 1 children worked hard to order sequencing cards of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, the children then used these to help them retell the story as their assessed piece of writing.

In Maths, Reception children have continued to focus on composition, this week we have focused on identifying when 2 sets are equal and have used dice and fingers to explore the idea of ‘2 equal parts’ and combining them together to get the whole. We have spoke about doubles and used the stem sentences “___ is made of ___ and ___; ___ and ___ make ___.”. We are developing our confidence in recalling doubles facts.
Year 1 children have completed some assessment questions as part of assessment week before moving onto explaining that the = sign can be used to show that the whole and the sum of the parts are equal and adding parts to find the value of the whole and writing the equation.
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In Science, we have begun work on this half-terms inquiry focus ‘observing change over time’. Team EO are going to observe how a cut apple changes over the course of a week. We made predictions with our talk partners and we think that it may go squishy and change colour!