April Fools!
We played a joke with the lunches in 1,2B…worm bolognaise anyone?
Living and Learning : feeling good and being me
We talked about what we are good at and what we are not so good at last week. Working on personal targets to improve something that you do is very important. It is also important to recognise what other people are good at. We wrote certificates for our friends to pay them a compliment (focusing on what other people do rather than what they look like is important). We loved giving and receiving the certificates.
You are a good friend.
You are good and football and colouring in the lines.
You are kind.
You are helpful.
We’re Living and Learning!
Living and Learning in class 2C.
Last week our living and learning statement was ‘I can give and receive compliments.’ We talked about the things we are proud of and what we have achieved. It is important to celebrate what we are good at!
Each child wrote a certificate for somebody else and wrote them a personal compliment. See some of our certificates below!
This week our Living and Learning statement is ‘I know how to cope with change.’ We discussed how we have felt in the past when we have lost something that was imoportant to us. Some children mentioned physical objects, whilst others discussed pets or family members.
We also discussed who helps us when we are feeling unhappy, anxious or worried and what sorts of things can cheer us up.
We know that everyone will experience loss and it is important that we know how to deal with this.
1A Easter Disco Ready
Such a fun disco! Thankyou to FOSP for organising and providing the treats. KS1 know how to party!
Year 1-Fun, fun, fun!
The whole of Year 1 were together every morning this week. (The Year 2’s had some very important work to do so we made the most of Year 1 only time). We had a carousel of learning activities that we all completed by Friday. These included practical work on capacity, shape and measures whilst also refining our writing and computing skills. The behaviour of all pupils was exemplary and it was such a treat to have 40 superstars together! A few snapshots of our learning.
Oliver’s Milkshake
We enjoyed reading ‘Oliver’s Milkshake’ this week, which is part of the same series of books as ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ written by Vivien French. We found out about where milk comes from and learnt that milk is good for our teeth and bones.
As we drank our milk at snack time, we continued to talk about how to keep our bodies healthy and how to look after our teeth. We used toothbrushes in the sensory area to clean the dirty teeth and we listened to some songs all about how to brush our teeth. This song was our favourite!
Help at home – Talk to your child about looking after their teeth and why it’s important to brush them at least twice a day.
We loved making some ‘milkshakes’ in the water tray and whisking the water to make it frothy.
There has been lots of other learning in Nursery this week sorting and counting flowers, making gardens in the dough and painting the daffodils that we found in our garden.
We have been thinking about positional language in our maths. Using words such as “above,” “below,” “next to,” “in front of,” and “behind.” We used toy characters and placed them in different positions.
Help at Home: Can you give your child an instructions including some positional language when playing? For example, “put the car in front of the house.” Then let them be the teacher and give you the instructions.
Nursery Rhyme of the week – Miss Molly had a Dolly
Sound of the week- Ll
Next week, we’ll learn all about Easter and have some Easter-themed fun!
Phase 3,4 DT – Cooking
This week, the children have been busy making bruschetta. In small groups, they practised cutting tomatoes, garlic and basil using the bridge method and the claw grip.
They discussed the importance of food hygiene and being safe when making food.
Overall, the bruschetta was a success and many children have already tried making it at home for their families.
Here’s the recipe. Why not make this recipe at home?
The Tiny Seed
This week, we’ve been reading The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.
Some of the children recognised the illustrations, knowing that the author also wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The story follows the journey of a tiny seed, tracking its journey through the four seasons.
We decided to go on a season walk to find signs of spring. The children spotted buds, leaves, blossom, snails and even the sun!
Miniscule is our ‘word of the week’. We’ve been learning that miniscule is even smaller than tiny!
Maths
In Maths, we’ve been doubling! Ask your child explain how we find doubles.
Phonics
Spring 2 week 5 has been a review of phase 3 sounds. We’ve been reading longer words, words with s in the middle /z/ (like ‘visit’), words ending –s and words with –es at end /z/ (like ‘foxes’)
Poetry Picnic
Each week we learn a new poem and recite it every day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk about how this can help us become better readers. This week’s poem is called Hungry Birdies.
We talk about how a poem sometimes has rhyming words and sometimes doesn’t. Can your child tell you the rhyming words in this week’s poem? We also talk about how a poem can have a fast rhythm or a slow rhythm.
Click here to watch us recite this week’s poem!
Topic: We are computer programmers!
In computing this week, we have been developing a pedometer. Pedometers are devices that track the number of steps you take. They contain an internal mechanism or arm that moves up and down in response to the motion of your hips. With each step, your body tilts to one side and your leg swings forward. As your body shifts the other way, your other leg moves forward as well. Each tilt of your hips, along with the forward swing of your legs, is counted as a step.
In our first lesson, we developed our code – the children needed to fix a few problems with their initial algorithms. We had to use decomposition to help us debug it. In the next lesson, we downloaded our pedometer code to our micro:bits and they worked! Following some success testing them in the classroom, we took them for a spin outside and had lots of fun along the way.
Help at home: Why not have a go at creating a program on Makecode?
Living and learning
Our living and learning statement this week is ‘I can give and receive compliments‘. As a class, we talked about what a compliment was and how it made us feel. We discussed that compliments should be less about what people look like physically and more about other aspects of our lives such as our personalities, our strengths and our learning behaviour. We spent some time moving around the classroom and writing compliments on each others compliment cards and at the end we shared our favourite comments. Everyone had a smile on their face at the end of the lesson as it made us feel good about ourselves.