Wild Animals and summary of learning!

We started the week listening to the story ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell – we recapped about that an author is the person who wrote the book. We explored lots of different wild animals and talked about why these animals wouldn’t make good pets!

We have written our own ‘Dear Zoo’ book! Each child worked hard to use there Fred Fingers to write the name of the animal they had chosen and what was wrong with it! Our funky finger activity was to colour in the spiral snake before using our carefully cutting skills to cut along the dashed lines! We have been turn-taking and practising our counting skills in our ‘Visit the Zoo’ board game.

​All Reception children have played a caterpillar track game with Miss Overton focusing on comparison.

In Literacy, Year 1’s have practised joining sentences together using the conjunction ‘and’. We have been practising saying the days of the week in order, learning to read the days of the week and trying hard to spell them independently! We have been practising using the suffix ‘ed’ in our sentences before we complete our assessed write next week!

In Maths, Reception have continued to focus on composition of number, particularly Number 7. Children used 2 different coloured multi-link cubes to make the number 7 and we discussed how many of each colour they had used. We have used our fingers to describe 7 as ‘5 and 2 more’ and we have begun to explain our understanding of the composition of 7. Can your child remember the different numbers 7 can be composed from? Year 1’s started the week systematically partitioning the numbers 6-10. We have solved missing part problems in the range from six to ten using part-whole models and we have used the + symbol to write expressions – we have learnt about the commutative law!
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In History, we begun to explore the significant individual William the Conqueror and the significant event in national linked to him. We wrote questions about what we would like to find out.

​In Computing, Year 1’s have worked in groups to combine ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ commands to make a sequence to programme the Bee-bots. They had to think carefully about which buttons to press on the Bee-bots and we had to remember to press 'clear' after it had completed our command before inputting another command. We hd lots of fun