This weeks' learning!

We have enjoyed lots of time in our outside area and have had the opportunity to sort the food items between the plates, use the tweezers to separate the peas and pasta, write shopping lists and build towers with the wooden blocks to see how high we can build it and then count how many blocks we have used. Our Year 1 children have been using the creative materials to make pictures of plants and labelling them!
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We have been learning the following Makaton signs: apple, banana, blueberry, grapes, melon, orange, pear, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry.
We have enjoyed listening to ‘The Runaway Pea’, ‘Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds’, Oliver’s Fruit Salad and a range of the Supertato books! 

In Literacy, Year 1’s have worked hard to write their questions to ask Mr Davison about Computing. In Maths, Reception have been saying which set of up to 10 objects contains more than the other, using
rekenreks to push amounts of beads that are equal to, more than and fewer than a given number, ordering towers to 10 – recognising the ‘1 more’ pattern of and exploring the order of numbers to 10. 

Year 1 children have explored odd and even numbers within 20, doubled the numbers 6-9 and used their knowledge of addition facts within 10 to add within 20.

On Monday, in science we listened to a song to teach us the parts of a tree. We then worked with our partners to label a picture of the tree before moving on to drawing and labelling our own diagram of a tree. We know that;
The leaves turn energy into food for the tree.
The roots absorb water from the soil and help to support the tree.
The trunk supports the tree and transports water to the leaves.
The branches help to transport water to the leaves.