Cinderella and this weeks learning!

Our story of the week was ‘Cinderella’. We carefully thought about the characteristics of a fairy tale – we know that it has a good character, a bad character, some magic and a happy ending! We then thought about what we would wish for if we had a fairy Godmother and one of our activities in the writing area this week has been to write our wishes in a thought bubble. Children have also had the opportunity to write their own invitations for a party and have been giving them out to their friends. Our provision maths activity has been to read the numeral on the wand and put the correct number of beads on the wand. In the creative area we have had the opportunity to create our own wands and shields. In the construction area we had ‘fairy tale themed copy the building brick model’ challenge cards and we have had some amazing models built! After we have been our models we have been making labels and captions to tell others what our models are.

This week was Children’s Mental Health week – this years’ theme was ‘Let’s Connect’. We started off by discussing what mental health is. We learn that it is all about how we are feeling, the thoughts we are having, how this affects the choices we make and how we behave. It is also how we are able to cope with what is happening in our daily lives. We then moved onto explore connections and discussed with our friends who we had connections (relationships) with. Children were able to identify that they have connections with parents, grandparents, siblings and friends! We spoke about how these connections make us feel. We then made a class paperchain that is going to be joined to every other classes to show our connection as a school!

In Maths, Reception children have focused on counting, ordinality and cardinality. We have verbally been counting to 30 placing emphasis on “1’s” past 20. While working with numbers to 10 we have continued to develop our understanding of the ordinal aspect by consolidating our understanding that each number has a value of ‘1 more’ than the previous number. 
Year 1 children have been consolidating their learning on the positioning of numbers to 10 and estimating where they lie on a number line. They have learnt what odd and even numbers are and the difference between them and we have learnt that an even number can be partitioned into either 2 even number or 2 odd numbers and that an odd number can only be partitioned an odd and even number.

In Literacy, Year 1’s have worked hard to produce a description of the top of the beanstalk! Children worked hard to orally compose and hold their sentence, use capital letters, finger spaces and full stop and use the conjunction ‘and’ within their work.

On Thursday, linking to our History learning and fairy tale themed week, we learnt what ‘armour’ is. We know that armour is a special suit made from metal that knights wear to protect themselves and that it is very heavy! We learnt the names of the following parts – helmet, throat guard, shoulder guard, breast plate, chainmail, guantlets, cuisses, leg plates, sword and shield. This inspired some of us to create our own shields and swords!