This week our learning has been focused on Spooky Surprises and Halloween. We started the week by listening to the story ‘Funny Bones’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We learnt that a surprise is something that is unexpected. Our activities this week have all been Halloween themed and we have had a very week. In the creative area, we have been drawing an outline of a pumpkin and then using PVA/pritt sticks to glue on squares and triangles for the eyes, nose and mouth. We have also been making ghosts by drawing an outline of a ghost and using PVA glue to stick on cotton wool we have then added on spooky looking eyes! In the writing area, been drawing and writing about what we would put in our cauldron to create a potion! We have also been using our Fred Fingers to write the CVC Halloween words in the phoneme frames. In the small world area, we carved a pumpkin to use as a tunnel and used the train track to create a spooky train ride! In the funky fingers area, we have used the tweezers to remove the spiders from the web! We have also enjoyed singing lots of Halloween songs such as ‘Halloween is Coming’ and ‘5 Little Pumpkins’. For our Talk through Stories sessions this week we have been enjoying the book ‘Room on the Broom’. In Literacy, our Year 1 children have worked hard to punctuate a sentence independently with a capital letter and full stop mostly correct through hold a sentence. We have tried hard to form our letters correctly and leave spaces between words. In Maths, our Year 1 children have been introduced to the equality and inequality symbols (<, > and =). We have used them to compare sets of objects and to compare expressions. In Maths, our Reception children have practised subitising amounts to 4, revisited ‘more than’ or ‘fewer than’ by looking, compare groups of up to 3 objects by matching them 1:1, said when they have an equal number, built towers with an equal number of squares, matched the squares in the towers 1:1 and said when there is an equal number, too many or not enough. In Geography, we took a birds eye tour of each capital city of the UK, we listened carefully to the name of each landmark and had to decide whether it was a physical or human feature of geography - we were fabulous at this! Our Year 1 children then went away to complete their learning activity - they had to name the 2 pictured landmarks for each capital city and circle to identify whether it was a physical or human feature. We have some budding geographers! In RE, we began by recapping that the religion we are learning about is Judaism and was introduced to the Star of David. We were able to recall that the special Jewish scroll is called a 'Torah' and that the special Christian book is called the 'Bible'. We listened carefully to Noah's Ark which is a story for the Torah in the book of Genesis. After we had listened carefully as a class we were able to join in with retelling the story. We then used the story sequencing cards to sequence and retell the story as we made our own book of Noah's Ark! What fabulous learning we have had in RE this week! In PSHE our focus this week was on recognising and naming emotions. We started by looking at photos of other children and we had to decide how they were feeling. We were able to say things that made us happy, what cheered us up when we were sad and what we could do if we felt scared. We then listened attentively to the story 'The Colour Monster'. In the story yellow is happiness, blue is sadness, red is anger, black is fear, green is calm and by the end of the story the monster is pink, he feels loved. For our activity, we had to listen carefully to the emotions being read and match them to the correct colour monster.
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