This week we have been learning about ‘under the sea’. We started the week listening carefully to ‘Commotion in the Ocean’. We have learned the names of different sea creatures, the Makaton signs for – crab, dolphin, fish, seahorse, whale, shark and whale and we have learnt some interesting facts about the sea creatures’ habitats and diet! In our Talk through Stories this week we have focused on poetry time and we have been listening carefully to ‘Oh, Oh, the Storyman’ – we are beginning to join in with phrases! We have also enjoyed singing songs related to animals under the sea.
Our provision activities have included; a under the sea jigsaw, using the watercolours to paint under the sea scenes, drawing our favourite sea creature and labelling it, using the peg boards to copy and make under the sea pictures, writing captions to match pictures and using the creative resources to make concertina fish puppets. What a fabulous week we have had!
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Yesterday, we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as book character and bringing in the related story - we held a circle time where we told everyone our character name and the story/film we were from. Our outfits looked amazing! Throughout the day we had two quizzes – for the first we had to listen to carefully to a description of the story then name it and for the second we had to look at part of a book cover and say which book it was! We have also had the opportunity to make book marks and design our own book covers for our favourite book!
It has been assessment week for our Year 1 children and they have worked hard to complete Maths assessments on Geometry and Addition and Subtraction. They have also worked super hard to write their own version of “Where the Wild Things Are” before going and presenting it to Nursery on World Book Day! Our Reception children continue to access appropriate RWI groups and have blown me away with their sound knowledge this week – what superstars! In Maths, we have visualised and described spatial arrangements of 6, practised subitising 6 and making and describing arrangements of 6. We have also listened to rhythmic patterns of up to 5 sounds and determined the quantity and recognised Numberblocks and related doubles patterns on our fingers without counting!
In Science, we learnt to identify, name and label basic parts of the human body. We know that we have 5 senses and we can say which part of the body is associates with each sense. In PSHE, we have continued work on knowing some things that that help keep us safe. This week we have discussed stranger danger. This week our learning has been based on polar animals – particularly arctic animals. We started by listening to the story ‘Lost and Found’ which was our Talk through Story for the week. We know that penguins are found in Antarctica not the Arctic. We know that the Arctic is in the far North and that the North Pole is in the Arctic. We learnt the names of different Arctic animals such as; Polar Bear, Arctic Hare, Arctic Fox, Snowy Owl, Reindeer, Seal, Walrus and Husky. We have learnt the Makaton signs for: cold, snow, penguin, snowy owl, polar bear, reindeer and brown bear! Our provision activities have included; using water colours to paint Arctic landscapes, creating igloos, writing about what we can see in the Arctic and in the funky fingers area we have been using shapes, pins and a hammer in a cork board to create pictures!
We started our week off with a Bird of Prey workshop in the hall on Monday where we listened attentively to learn about the owl, buzzard and falcon. We learnt about the different types of breeds, what they like to eat, how old they were, how fast they can fly and how they train them. We could remember from our previous learning what the word ‘nocturnal’ meant and learnt that this particular owl wasn’t nocturnal and it had the same sleep cycle as humans. Whilst in the hall we had to be very quiet and still as the owl flew above our heads. At the end of the day, we were treated to a flying demonstration on the field where the falcon swooped over our heads and soared through the sky before finally catching its ‘prey’.
In Literacy, our Year 1 children have worked hard to write sentences in the past tense using the suffix ‘ed’. We have practised forming capital letters correctly and saying letter names and we have been learning to say, read and write the days of the week. Reception children have started new RWI groups appropriate to their stage of learning. Our Reception children have also started to access handwriting groups! In Maths, our Year 1 children have been adding parts to find the value of the whole and have written equations to match. We then moved on to finding the missing addend in an equation. Next, we have explored partitioning a whole into two parts and have expressed this with a subtraction equation. On Thursday, we made addition and subtraction stories and wrote equations to match. On Monday, Reception children learnt to make and continue ABB patterns. Reception have worked hard on counting this week – we have revisited the rules for counting and we have discussed strategies for counting larger sets! We have counted things that cannot be seen (sounds) and we have counted out 20 objects from larger sets! In History, we have continued our learning on the Great Fire of London. This week we have been ordering the events of the fire. We know that the fire started in a bakery shop on Pudding Lane as the oven fire wasn’t put out correctly and a spark fell onto the wooden floor. We know that it spread because the houses were close together, made out of wood and that it was windy! We also discussed the effect the fire had on London – like houses being built out of different materials and further apart! In Computing, our Year 1’s recapped that buttons are used to give robots instructions. For our first activity we pretended to be robots and we had to follow instructions given to us by Miss Crookes just like the bee-bots have to. This meant we couldn’t do anything we hadn’t been instructed to do. For our second activity, we started by talking to our partner about words or short phrases that are or can be used as instructions (see photo below). For our third activity, we tried giving out the instructions on the list we made as a class with our partners. Partner 1 gave the instruction and Partner 2 acted out the instruction. Finally, we thought of instruction words to move each other around the room – we added these to our class list photo below). We then tried the movement instructions out with each other. In PSHE, we have begun looking at things that keep us safe. We discussed the important of listening to adults and we know that adults give instructions to keep us safe. We have thought about why we must hold an adults hand to cross the road and why we shouldn’t run away from adults in parks, shops, near water or roads – can your child remember any of the reasons why?
This week our learning has been based around ‘Wild Animals’. We started the week listening to the story ‘Dear Zoo’. We said that the wild animals wouldn’t make good pets and may be quite dangerous! We have written our ‘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 provision learning activities have included; playing the ‘Visit the Zoo’ board game, colouring in the spiral snake before using our carefully cutting skills to cut along the dashed lines, we have tried very hard to use different junk modelling resources to create our own wild animals and in the funky fingers area we have been using our Peter Pointer and Tommy Thumb to peel stickers and place them along the outline of shapes. In our small world area, we have been using the animals to create our own zoos! Our Talk through Story of the week was “Where the Wild Things Are” – the children listened attentively to the story, answered questions about the story, joined in with favourite phrases and took on the role of the Wild Things doing freeze-frame expressions!
In Literacy, our Year 1 children have begun a new unit of writing. The text driver for this piece of writing is “Where the Wild Things Are”. As a hook into our learning children watched a drawing tutorial for a wild thing and produced some wonderful drawing. We have been able to listen attentively to the story and answer questions about what has been read. We have learnt about the suffix ‘ed’ and know that when we add this to a verb it turns into past tense. In Maths, our Reception children been practising saying what the whole is when there are 2 equal parts, described the attributes they noticed for a group of objects and sorted these objects into groups based on attributes. We have described attributes of Numberblocks and sorted Numberblocks into ‘odd blocks’ or ‘even tops’ and we have investigated patterns of doubles. Our Year 1 children have been identifying a missing part when a whole is partitioned into two parts, combined two or more parts to make a whole and wrote expressions to represent the images we had and learnt to explain that the = sign can be used to show that the whole and the sum of the parts are equal. In Science, we learnt to describe and compare the structure of animals. We know that a bird is a bird because it has a beak, wings and feathers, that they hatch from eggs and that most birds can fly but some cannot such as penguins and ostriches. We know that reptiles have dry scaly skin and lay eggs on land. We learnt that amphibians live on land or water when adults, they live in water when young, have soft skin and lay eggs in water. We learnt that we are mammals because mammals have hair or fur, drink milk from their mummies and know that they can live on land or water. We know the features of fish are; gills, scales, fins and we know that they are water dwelling. On Thursday, we held our class assembly where we shared some of our learning from this year and performed last half-terms poem “Bedtime March-Past”. The children were amazing and thank you once again if you were able to join us.
This week we have begun our new topic on ‘Amazing Animals’. Our theme was ‘Pets’. We started the week listening carefully to the story ‘Tabby McTat’ by Julia Donaldson. We explored what animals we could own as pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, lizard, tortoise, horse, guinea pig, hamster, snake, fish and chicken! We discussed what we need to do to care for a pet and concluded that pets need a loving home, a space safe to live, water and appropriate food – we spoke about how certain foods can make animals poorly.
Our learning activities have included; drawing a picture about a pet they have at home and we have been writing sentences about our pets! If we don’t have a pet at home, we have been writing about what pet we would like. Children have been completing graphs to show what their friends favourite pet is out of a dog, cat, rabbit, fish and bird! In the creative area, we have been practising our careful cutting skills to cut out the body parts of animals then using split pins to join the parts together. For our funky finger activity, we have had to move pom poms around inside a plastic wallet to the hole and then squeeze them out! Today, we held a discussion around our focus questions “Why do I need sleep?”. We learnt that sleep gives our body and brain time to rest and prepare for the next day and for this to happen we need to have enough quality sleep. We learnt that if we do not get enough sleep we will feel sleepy and this means that we won’t have as much energy so we cannot learn or play properly.
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