Elmer - This weeks' learning!

This week our learning activities have been focused around ‘Elmer’ as this book celebrate everyone being unique which has supported our learning on ‘Anti-Bullying Week’. We discussed what bullying is and what it is not. We spoke about what we need to do if we think we are being bullied. We also spoke about how we can just ask our friends if they are okay as sometimes, we may be having a sad day where we need our friends around us. We also listened carefully to 'Simon Sock' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. Afterwards, we talked about why 'Simon' was feeling sad, can your child remember why he was sad?

Children have been very busy this week in lots of different areas of our classroom. In the maths area, children have been pairing up the odd socks. In the creative and painting areas, children have had the opportunities to create their own Elmer’s by using squared-pieces of paper or by mixing the powder paints – they have looked fantastic! In the writing area, children have been writing about what makes them special. Our funky finger activity this week focused on our cutting skills – we have been learning to hold our scissors correctly and to hold the paper to make it easier to cut!

Year 1’s – In Literacy we have been writing ‘Hold a Sentences’ daily about how to make buns and then we finished off the week by writing it up! In maths we have explored a variety of ways to compare numbers. Firstly, we compared numbers using base ten. Then we compared numbers by their position on a number line. Next, we compared numbers by looking at the tens column to see which was greater and finally, we learnt to compare them by looking at the tens and ones columns in case both digits were the same in the tens column!
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Reception – In Phonics, children have continued to learn sounds, some children have been learning to blend using magnetic boards. All Reception children have had a go at using Fred Fingers to write CVC words and this is something we will be working hard on over the next few weeks. In maths, we have been looking at the composition of 3,4 and 5 and we have been making our own ‘stampoline’ patterns just like the Numberblocks did on the video we watched!

Our Y1's have been getting stuck into their provision challenges this week! One challenge was linked to Geography and children had to list the 7 Continents - they used Atlases to help them and they sung the song we have learnt to help us remember them! 

We have had some fabulous learning this week Monkey's - keep it up next week!