This week our focus question was “What is the nativity?”. We know that the nativity tells the story of the birth of Baby Jesus and that this is what we celebrate at Christmas. We learnt that Christmas is celebrated by Christians. We listened carefully to ‘The Christmas Story’ and compared it to our nativity performance. We spoke about how our nativity tells the Christmas story through reading, singing and signing. We had an amazing time performing our nativity to our special people and I think you will agree we were absolutely incredible! This weeks’ independent learning activities have linked to Christmas. In our funky finger area we have been creating paper chains, in the painting area we have been printing with our fingers to add baubles to the Christmas tree template and in the creative area we have been colouring and sticking onto star and angel templates which we are sending to St Mary’s Church and they are going to hang them from the ceiling in the church! In our writing area we have been writing letters to Santa using the toy catalogue to help us and we have posted these in our letterbox then Buddy has been taking them to Santa each night. We have also been practising writing simple CVC words linked to Christmas! In Literacy, our Year 1 children were hooked into their new unit of writing with our text driver ‘Zog’ the children listened carefully to the story and were able to join in with the repeated refrains and phrases. We were able to answer simple questions about the text. We know that in this unit that our audience is Team CH and our purpose is to compose a sentence to read aloud to them. In Maths, our Reception children started the week learning to use time language including day, night, today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, before and after. We then showed the numbers to 5 on our fingers, learnt to see that 5 can be partitioned into 4 and 1 and 3 and 2, explored ways to partition a set of 5 and explained what the parts are and used what they know about 5 to work out a hidden number. In Geography, we have learnt about the village of Tocuaro, Mexico. We learnt that Mexico lies on the continent of North America and we were able to locate Mexico on a map of North America. We learnt that Tocuaro, Mexico has a population of 600, it has 3 shops and 1 church that is pink! We know that these are human features. We identified that in Tocuaro the physical features are mountains and the lake. In Science, we carried out an investigation into ‘Do objects move the same on all surfaces?’. We started by predicting what we thought might happen then shared our ideas with our talk partner and then we came up with a class prediction. We predicted that the object will not travel the same on all surfaces because some may be rough and other may be smooth. We carried out our investigation and recorded how far the car travelled with one small push on each surface and then identified the surface that the car travelled furthest on. This was the plastic. We then worked as a team to conclude our investigation. We concluded that objects do not move the same on all surfaces. The car did not travel the same distance on all the surfaces because some were rough and some were smooth. We know from our learning last week that the resistance is greater on a rough surface and therefore the object will travel less.
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