English: This week the children have been reading the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Two independent groups have sequenced the story, written character descriptions and written their own version of the story. Yellow group have been reading pink RWI book ‘Scruffy Ted’ and Green group have been reading red RWI book ‘Lets swim’.

Maths: In maths the children have been continuing their sharing and grouping and writing sentences such as ‘8 shared by 2 is 4′ and ’15 split into groups of 5 is 3’.

Science: In Science this week, the children made rain gauges to measure how much rainfall we have in autumn. They had lots of fun placing these in different areas in the wild life area. They will revisit these during next weeks Science lesson.

History: The children answered lots of questions about what they have learned about toys so far and played games about their knowledge. Today the children imagined they were a child in the past waking up on the morning of their birthday/Christmas morning and described the toys that they would get.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 24th November 2017.

Spellings 17.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week Blue group have been reading ‘Pip’s Pizza’ and writing about all of the yummy toppings they can have on their favourite pizza. Red group have been reading ‘ I think I want to be a bee’ and writing about what they want to be when they are older. We had lots of lovely suggestions: vets, doctors, teachers, pop stars, etc. Green and Yellow group worked independently writing instructions on ‘how to make a sandwich’ and progressed onto writing instructions for making a puppet.

Maths: We have started looking at division this week. The children have been learning to share given amounts between 2, 5 and 10 and checking that each group are ‘equal’ and ‘fair’ to get the right answer. Some children have recognised that not all numbers can be shared equally.

PE: The children enjoyed their circuits in PE on Monday to raise money for the NSPCC. Please return any sponsor forms once they are completed. Thank you for sending Class 2 children in their PE kits this morning! It really helped with getting to Worship on time.

History: In History this week, the children made posters of toys in different categories to make a class museum. They made posters about moving toys, outdoor toys, building toys, dolls and stuffed animals and puzzles and games.

D & T: In D & T the children made leavers to make a picture move. They read the story Jack and the Beanstalk and made a moving leaver to make Jack climb up the beanstalk.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on Friday 17th November 2017.

Spellings 10.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week green group have been reading ‘let’s sing’ and writing some interesting sentences about their story and answering questions. Yellow group have been reading a non-fiction text about ‘puppets’. We then had lots of discussions about making our own puppets and which puppets we like best in the book. Blue and red group have worked independently in English this week, writing instructions. They started with writing instructions about how to make a sandwich and progressed onto writing instructions about how to make a wooden spoon puppet.

Maths: In Maths we have continued to practise counting in twos and then challenged ourselves to count in tens and fives. The children have related this to money and have been counting 2ps, 10ps and 5ps.

Science: The children have been investigating day length in Science this week. We have had lots of lovely discussions about clocks going forwards and backwards and how much daylight we get in different seasons. The children have been explaining how it is now getting dark when they come to school and when it is their dinner time.

RE: In RE the children went on a Winter/Christmas walk. They looked for signs around the school that winter was coming and found lots of lovely things e.g. frost on the ground, seeing their breath, colourful leaves, berries, etc.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on Friday 10th November 2017.

Spellings 3.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards