Mardi Gras instruments

The Class have been looking at and sharing their instruments today. Some have used our junk modelling to make more.

Forest school and tennis session dates

Due to the bad weather we have taken the decision to postpone the start of Forest School to the 15th of March.  The children will still get the planned 5 sessions as we will continue after the Easter break.

We do however have another treat for the class.  This Friday and the following 2 Fridays the children in class 1 will take part in some tennis coaching sessions.  We will send your child’s PE kit home with them, so that they can come into school wearing their PE kit on a Friday am.  We will continue to have PE on a Monday afternoon, so please send their kit back in on a Monday morning.

Dates:

Thursday 1st March:   World Book Day – come to school dressed as a character

Friday 2nd March:  Tennis session 1/3:  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Friday 9th March: Tennis session 2/3:  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 15th March: Forest School Session 1/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Friday 16th March: Tennis session 3/3 :  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 22nd March: Forest School Session 2/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 29th March: Forest School Session 3/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

 

 

Read, write inc

This week we have continued to focus on the sounds that we have already covered.  Everyday we work on segmenting and lending with Green Set 1 sounds -these can be viewed on the power point :   green words 1         or PDF: green words 1

Our focus sounds have been – th, ay and oy.

We have also practised our letter formations, I will attach these below for you to share with your children:  masdt

 

Chinese New Year

Class 1 enjoyed finding out about Chinese New Year today.

Pancake maths

This week our focus story is ‘The Runaway pancake’.  We have linked our maths work to pancakes.  On Monday we looked at our favourite pancake toppings and made a class pictogragh, we found out the jam was the favourite topping in the Class, and in 2nd equal; lemon juice with sugar and maple syrup.

The children have used the coins to buy pancakes, they had to work out how much they needed to pay using our pennies. We also looked at how the price doubles when the pancakes cost 2p rather than 1p.

Some children investigated how they could share 10 strawberries between 2 pancakes and wrote their own calculations!

 

 

Maths – early subtraction

This week our focus story has been ‘The 3 Little Pigs’.  We have used this as a basis for our Maths.  The children have enjoyed singing songs such as 10 pigs in a bed and 10 Little Piggies went walking one day and have been able to say and show how many are left each time.

Over the week they have made up number subtraction stories using the farm animals, used number lines to count back and have a go at recording their number sentences.

 

Read, Write inc

This week the children have revised:  m   a    s   d   t  i  n  p  g  o  c k u  b f e l h sh ck r j v y

Focused on:  w, th, z, ch, qu

They have used these sounds to form words containing these letters,  for example:  thin, thick, this, zag, zip, chin, chop, chat, quiz, quit

We have also looked at some split digraphs this week:

a-e – Make a cake

i-e – nice smile

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3 Little Pigs

Today we built some new houses for the 3 Little Pigs – A house of blocks, cardboard and straw.  We then tried to find out which was the best house.  We discovered our house of card was no good in the rain as it went soggy. Our house of straw looked good, but it blew down when we huffed and puffed.  Our block house was the best and we thought would be even better if we could cement it together!

 

Walk around the village

This week we walked around the village to find out what some of the buildings and areas are used for.  We chose a very cold and snowy afternoon for our walk!