Great games in 5/6NK
This afternoon, 5/6NK have had a brilliant time in our homework review. The children were set the task of creating a game to entertain the children in their class. I was extremely impressed with the effort all the children had gone to in order to create board games, outside games, computer games, card games and sketching games. The children thoroughly enjoyed trying them all out. They talked about what they enjoyed the best about each game.
‘I really liked Archie’s game. I liked that you had to memorise where the times table questions were to find a pair.’ Reuben
‘Lilia’s game was fun and I will play it again.’ Freya
What are these bricks my child keeps talking about?
This week, we’ve introduced your child to challenges. Challenging activities are around the classroom for your child to complete to earn a brick. The aim is to get a tower of bricks taller than five. Challenges include the learning we’re focusing on throughout the week – for example, writing our name. Ask your child what challenges they’ve done this week.
We talked about who had more and who had fewer bricks. If your child’s tower was more than five, your child will come home with a certificate!
Year 6 Drug Awareness Talk
Steve, from The Children’s Charity, came into school today to discuss drugs. With the help of his cartoon friend (Bob), Steve informed year 6 about the difference between legal and illegal drugs. The children asked many questions about the effects of drugs and showed a good awareness of the subject. At home, you might want to follow up this talk with your own discussion.
Year 1 reading meeting
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to the Year 1 reading meeting tonight. The presentation can be downloaded here. The other resources will be sent home in your child’s book bag.
Active Maths
We like to learn outdoors in Key Stage 1. Today, 2KL were continuing our indoor learning about tens and ones with an outdoor lesson on the playground 100 square.
Help at home! Talk about how many tens and ones are in numbers. For example, find out how many tens and ones make up your age, house number, the date or shoe size.
2 tens and 8 ones
We’ve been orienteering!
This morning we spent an hour learning how to orienteer around our school grounds. It was lots of fun! We practised some map reading skills and showed resilience when it got tricky. We kept going and didn’t give up!
Autumn treasure
Autumn has definitely arrived. Lots of children have been out exploring this weekend are were keen to show us the Autumn treasure that they had collected. This generated a lot of discussion about the windy weather and conkers falling off trees.
We looked at some conkers that children had brought into Nursery and talked about the different shapes and sizes. Some of the conkers that Mrs Long had found were still in their cases. We looked closely at the shells and felt their prickles carefully. Children were excited to see a crack down one of the shells; we carefully opened it and found not just one, but two shiny conkers inside!
The Autumn woodland small world area was popular today and the tractors were very busy collecting hay bales in the fields. Some children tried to stack the hay bales in the trailer. It was quite tricky and took a lot of perseverance to stack them in a tall tower. It was even harder to stop them from falling off as the tractor moved across the bumpy field to the farm!
The Sunshine room was buzzing with excitement this morning. Children loved ordering and making pizzas in our new role play area. They played together, taking turns to take orders and to make and cook the pizzas. Some pizzas cost “5 dollars” and some were “2 pounds”. Children counted out the coins carefully as they paid.
Exploring Autumn
Last week, the children began to collect conkers and we have been using them in the classroom to support our learning.
This inspired us to go on an Autumn walk around school looking for signs of Autumn. The children noticed the leaves on the trees were beginning to change colour and some have already started to fall from the trees. We have apple, pear and horse chestnut trees in our foundation garden where we have observed the apples, pears and conkers growing and falling from the trees. We also found blackberries growing on a bush. We talked about the weather and how it is starting to change for Autumn.
- “It’s really windy and cold.”
- “When it’s winter, flowers die because it’s really cold and there’s no sun. Then when it’s summer they come back to life.”
The children learnt a song about Autumn (sung to the tune of ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’)
Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down. Autumn leaves are falling down, see them falling.
Yellow, orange, red and brown, red and brown, red and brown. Yellow, orange, red and brown, see them falling.
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Please fill a bag with Autumn treasures that you and your child can collect together. This could be from your local park or woods and can include colourful leaves, conkers, pine cones or anything else relating to Autumn. Please bring your Autumn treasure into school to share with us.
2KL Join in
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to 2KL’s join-in this afternoon. The class were learning about making sensible predictions in science, linked to the 5 senses.
The lavender was a really strong smell.
The dried fruit (dates) looked like a slug!
I guessed what all the instruments were.
Marvellous maths!
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been working on our knowledge of place value, rounding and exchanging up to 1000.
Ask your child to explain to you how to add or subtract 10, 100 or 1000. Request a tricky one which involves exchanging. We’ve been rehearsing our explanations.
