This week our learning has been focused around the question “What jobs are in the community?”. We started the week reading ‘When We Grow Up’ by Melanie Walsh which introduced us to a variety of jobs and explained what these jobs involved. Following on from this we used our stem sentence “When I grow up I want to be…” with our talk partners and then shared our ideas back as a class. Team EO have lots of ambitious careers such as ballerina, rockstar, vet, doctor, teacher, engineer, builder and firefighter to name a few. We also listened to the stories ‘When I Grow Up’ by Tim Minchin and ‘A Superhero Like You’ by Dr Ranj. As part of our learning this week our home corner was turned into a bakers, we have been junk modelling emergency vehicles and drawing pictures to show what we want to be when we grow up! For our funky finger activity this week we have been seeing how many hoops we can thread on a strand of spaghetti in a minute. We have continued to explore our Autumn investigation area. We have continued to learn and enjoy listening to the poem ‘Cake-o-saurus’. A copy has now been sent home for your to share with your poem! Reception children continue to work in RWI groups and have been put into new groups this week. Some children are consolidating previously taught sounds to ensure they are secure in them whilst others continue to learn sounds. Children are working on blending to read using magnetic boards and green word cards. In maths, we have been playing a game of 'show me' - where Miss Overton says a number and children have to show that many number of fingers and then show it in a different way. The children have been comparing 2 sets of objects and identifying which is ‘more than’ and which is ‘fewer than’. We have also been learning to use the positional language; ‘over’, ‘under’, ‘through’ and ‘around’. Year 1 have continued to practise letter formation ensuring they are formed correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place. They are getting really confident at writing the tricky red words we have been practising. In Maths, we have continued counting within 100, we have had a specific focus on counting forwards clapping on each multiple of 10, counting from a given number and recognising numerals on a 100. Additionally, we have used the number line on BrainingCamp to count within 100 and we have been working on identifying numbers by counting on from the previous multiple of 10. On Tuesday, in Computing our Year 1 learners started by recapping that the computer mouse is an input device. We learnt that a keyboard is an input device that allows us to write using a computer. We looked at different types of keyboards and discussed similarities and differences – we concluded that even though they look different they all perform the same function. Next, we opened the Paint app and used the text tool to write words. We learnt that to use the text tool we need to select it using a single click on the mouse, we insert the text box by clicking and dragging. We explored the text function by typing our names – we found it quite tricky so this is something we need to keep practising but we worked hard. We learnt that the space bar should be pressed once to leave a space in between words just like a finger space. Our next job was to alter the size and colour of our text. We then saved our learning into our designated file by typing our name and the date. On Wednesday, Team EO carried out our pattern seeking investigation our enquiry question was ‘Do all apples have the same number of seeds?’. Each talk partner was given an apple cut in half, we had to carefully count how many seeds were in each apple and report our findings to Miss Overton who recorded them in the table below. We looked at our findings and concluded there was not a pattern to the number of seeds in an apple. In Geography, we have begun learning about human and physical features of geography. We know that human features are made by people and physical features are made by nature. Year 1’s then used the Odizzi human and physical features worksheet to name the pictured features. On Welly Walk, we worked in pairs to complete an Autumn scavenger hunt!
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