Autumn 2, Week 4

English:  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

We are continuing to read traditional tales. This week, we’ve been reading the tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have finished off our puppets and retold the story with them.

We are practising:

• · Saying our sentence out loud before we write
• · Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• · Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

We have continued to look at wholes and parts of whole and what amounts make 5,6,7,8,9,10.

We have also been thinking about ordinal numbers. Which car comes 1st in a race? How do you know the car came 2nd?

Science:

We have been looking at the weather and recording the weather each day, including changing temperatures. We drew round our shadows to see how they changed over the course of the day (when the sun finally came out!)

Explore and Learn:

We have also been really enjoying using our new mud kitchen!

                    

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Autumn 2, Week 3

English:  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

We are continuing to read traditional tales. This week, we’ve been reading the tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We’ve made puppets and retold the story with them. We built bridges for the troll to live under and made a river and hill from materials in the classroom. Later in the week, we wrote a description of either the troll or one of the billy goats.

We are practising:

• · Saying our sentence out loud before we write
• · Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• · Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

We have been looking at wholes and parts of whole. We cut up whole bananas and doughnuts into parts. Then we used a part part whole model and cubes to explore the idea of a group of objects as a whole.

DT:

We have now started sewing our puppets in our shared classroom. The children bring their design to help them choose the colours they need for their puppet. Once everyone has sewed their puppet, we will be decorating them too.

               

 

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• · Continue reading lots of traditional tales together at home. Can you spot any new baddie characters? (In school so far, we’ve had a troll, several wolves, a bear and a tiger).
• · Can you cut up a whole into parts? You could try with a real banana, or cake, or something else your child is eating.
• · Please send in as many transparent plastic bottles for the children to make rain gauges in science next week. Thank you!

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Autumn 2, Week 2

English: No Dinner

We are continuing to read traditional tales. We have read the story of No Dinner about an old lady who outwits some scary animals who want to eat her. We have been thinking about what might happen next and writing our own next sentence using a different animal.

We are practising:

· Saying our sentence out loud before we write

· Using Fred talk to help with our spellings

· Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

We have been practising making 7 in lots of different ways. We have been exploring more than, less than and equals. We have been practicing grouping objects into sets and then comparing sets.

DT:

We have been loving our puppet theatre in class. We have been designing our own animal hand puppet to start making and sewing next week.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• · Continue reading lots of traditional tales together at home.
• · Can you group quantities and match them to the number?
• · Remember to write in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. If your child has 4 comments in their reading record in a week, they’ll receive a raffle ticket to win a prize!

 

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Autumn 2, Week 1

English: No Dinner

We are continuing to read traditional tales. We have read the story of No Dinner about an old lady who outwits some scary animals who want to eat her. We have been using our favourite phrases from the book.

We are practising:

• · Saying our sentence out loud before we write
• · Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• · Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

We have been exploring more than and less than and what equal means. We have been comparing objects and their size and mass using balancing scales.

History:

We have been thinking about the past and what History means. We have been comparing events that happened before and after we were born and putting them in time order.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• · Continue reading lots of traditional tales together at home.
• · Can you compare numbers/ quantities that are less than or more than another?
• · Remember to write in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. If your child has 4 comments in their reading record in a week, they’ll receive a raffle ticket to win a prize!

                    

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Autumn 1, Week 7

English:  The Three Little Pigs

We have been designing a new house for the three little pigs that will withstand a wolf attack. We used what we have been learning in Science to choose sensible materials to make a strong house. We labelled our designs and then wrote sentences describing what we had created.

We are practising:

• · Saying our sentence out loud before we write
• · Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• · Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
• · Challenge: use ‘and’ to join two main clauses.

Maths:

We have been exploring different ways of making 8. We are also continuing to practice forming our numbers  correctly and counting to 100, forwards and backwards!

RE:

We have been learning about how Christians celebrate harvest. We also had a visitor come into our classes to share how Jewish people celebrate Sukkot. Some of us then chose to create a Sukkah; we remembered that the roof is made from natural materials that come from the land.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• · Use your Numbots login to practise Maths fluency (these were handed out at parents evening).
• · We have collected in reading books for the half term break as groups will be changing. You can login to your ‘Oxford Owl’ account to access reading books at home.

 

Have a lovely half term break!

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Autumn 1, Week 6

English: The Three Little Pigs

We are continuing to read traditional tales. We have created a story map for the Three Little Pigs and added speech bubbles and thought bubbles to show what the main characters are saying and thinking.

We are practising:

• · Saying our sentence out loud before we write
• · Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• · Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

We have been exploring different ways of making 6. We are also continuing to practise forming our numbers correctly.

Art:

We have been using a range of tools to make different marks. We have also explored colour mixing and created new colours.

      

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember

• · Continue reading lots of traditional tales together at home.
• · Can you recall pairs of numbers that make 6? E.g. 4 + 2 = 6, 2 + 4 = 6 etc.
• · Remember to write in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. If your child has 4 comments in their reading record in a week, they’ll receive a raffle ticket to win a prize!

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Autumn 1, Week 5

English:  The Three Little Pigs

We are continuing to read traditional tales and talk about a story structure (beginning, middle and end). We used the story spoons to act out the story and wrote sentences describing the wolf. We are practising:

• Saying our sentence out loud before we write                                                                                                
• Using Fred talk to help with our spellings
• Remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

 

 

 

Maths: We have been sorting numbers into odd or even. We know that even numbers have a ‘flat’ top and odd numbers have an ‘odd’ top.                                                                                                    

 

 

 

 

Geography: We have been learning what an ‘aerial view’ is. We used the ipads to take photos of items in the classroom for an aerial view.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• Read some traditional tales at home. Talk with your child about what is similar and different about a range of traditional tales. For example, there is always a problem, they have goodies and baddies. Using our knowledge of odds and evens, can you count in 2s? E.g. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.
• Remember to write in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. If your child has 4 comments in their reading record in a week, they’ll receive a raffle ticket to win a prize!          

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Autumn 1, Week 4

English: The Sweetest Song by Hugh Lupton

This week we have continued reading ‘The Sweetest Song’ by Hugh Lupton. We made flowers to match the flowers in the story. We wrote sentences about a key part in the story. We practised using: capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and Fred talk!                                                                                                           

 

 

           

 

 

Maths: We have been practising forming numbers to 10 correctly. We have also been discussing which number is between 2 numbers. E.g. 5 is between 4 and 6. We have also been using ‘after’ and ‘before’ to show our understanding of numbers to 10. e.g. 9 is after 8; 6 is before 7.  

                                                                                               

 

 

                                                

PSHE: We have been exploring healthy and unhealthy lifestyles. We have sorted food and activities into healthy or unhealthy

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

•  Make sure you have activated your Tapestry account where you will find more information and live updates about what we are learning in class.
• Can you form your numbers correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place?
• Remember to write in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. If your child has 4 comments in their reading record in a week, they’ll receive a raffle ticket to win a prize!

 

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Autumn 1, Week 3

English: The Sweetest Song by Hugh Lupton

This week we have been reading ‘The Sweetest Song’ by Hugh Lupton. Similar to Little Red, this story is about a girl who meets a wolf while out picking flowers. She then has to find her way back home.  

We have joined in with familiar parts of the story and used drama to identify characters’ feelings. We used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to write sentences from the story.

Maths:

We have been looking at how the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 can be split into 2 parts, where one of the parts is 5.

E.g:

If 6 is the whole, 5 is a part and 1 is a part.     

If 7 is a whole, 5 is a part and 2 is a part.

PSHE:

We have been thinking about how we might be similar and different to our friends. We shared the things that are important to us and how we are all special in our own ways.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

• Can you form your numbers correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place?
• Can you split 6, 7, 8 and 9 into 2 parts? Each time, make sure one of the parts is 5!
• Remember to bring your reading book to school everyday as book changing days vary depending on your child’s group. Children will need to return their book so that we can issue them a new one.

 

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Autumn 1, Week 2

English:  Little Red. This week we have continued reading the story Little Red by Bethan Woollvin. We enjoyed making masks for the story and wrote sentences about the wolf and Little Red. We practised using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We used our sound mats to help us spell tricky words. 

                                                                                                                                                   

                                     

Maths: We have been working out ways of making 5 using Rekenreks. We have also been practising our counting to 100.

                      

PSHE: We have explored what makes a happy classroom. We have also discussed ways we can calm down if we are feeling sad or cross.

Home Learning ideas for next week/things to remember:

· Keep practising counting to 100 – forwards and backwards!

· How many different ways can you make 5?

· Remember to bring your reading book to school everyday as book changing days vary depending on your child’s group. Children will need to return their book so that we can issue them a new one.