World Book Day
Today, we’ve celebrated World Book Day. The children have dressed as a character from their favourite book – the costumes are fabulous! Well done, everyone.
We’ve celebrated reading by:
– sharing our favourite books
– listening to the class novel
– listening to stories and extracts read by different members of staff in assembly
– taking part in the BBC Live Assembly
– reading and sharing books with KS1 children
– completing a range of reading-based activities
Help at home by visiting the authorfy website and discovering a new author. Remember that it is free for everyone to use this year!
World Book Day
We had an AMAZING day yesterday for World Book Day! Thank you so much to all parents and carers for providing children with such fantastic costumes and for sending them to school with their favourite books.
During the day we discussed our favourite books, characters and authors. We designed our own book cover and wrote sentences about the books we like.
We also had some of the older children from 3/4A visit our classroom and read with us. It was so much fun !
Help at home by reading as much as you can at home! We want all of our children to be confident and fluent readers by the time they leave KS1.
World Book Day
We’ve had a great day celebrating World Book Day today and the children looked fantastic in their costumes. We spent the day talking about our favourite books, reading to younger children and completing some interesting activities.
Science – we’re biologists
We are biologists!
Our unit this term is all about animals including humans. This means we are being biologists because we are studying living things. We’ve been looking at the human life cycle from being a foetus to becoming an elderly adult later in life. There were many jokes about where the teachers were in this life cycle!
This week, we looked at some data about how the mass of a baby increases over time and we compared the mass of male and female babies. We plotted this information into a line graph to show the difference.
Reception parent/carer survey
If you’re a parent of a child in Reception, please complete this short survey.
At Scholes (Elmet) Primary, we’re always trying to keep getting better and better. Your views help us to do that. The survey will only take a few minutes to complete and you’ve got until Wednesday 18 March to complete. (If you’d like us to follow-up any of your responses with you, we can only do this if you leave your name.)
We can’t guarantee to meet the needs and wants of every parent / carer, but we do assure you that we consider all the points raised and aim to act on specific points that are raised by many, or a useful idea raised by just a few.
Previously, based on your feedback, for example, we alternated the days Stay and Learns were held – to give all parents an opportunity to attend.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. We’re looking forward to reading your views.
Jack and the Beanstalk
We have been making the most of the warmer weather this week by developing our physical skills outside. It was with great excitement that we could once again use our climbing wall, slide and wobbly bridge. Unfortunately it had been too wet and slippery to use since Christmas. The children had checked every day and decided it was ” not safe”. A cone was added which the children understand means ” it’s not safe to play here today” But this week it was safe, so the children were able to practise lots of skills.
Climbing, balancing, crawling, negotiating space and turn taking.
The story for the first part of this half term is Jack and the Beanstalk. The children enjoyed joining in with the repeated refrain ” Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, watch out everyone here I come “.
Here are some of the activities related to the story from this week in nursery.
As part of our ‘Understanding the World’ curriculum, we’re beginning to learn about different forces. The children loved exploring the magnets in the discovery area and taking them around Nursery to see what they were attracted to and which objects they would ‘stick’ to. We used some construction kits that used magnets to create some fantastic models too.
Next week’s learning
Nursery rhyme of the week
Can you join in with the rhyme at home?
Sound of the week
Reminders
Nursery Coffee morning – Wednesday 4th March
Come along from 9am – 9.30am to share your child’s learning journey.
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
If your child wants to, they can come dressed as a book character or anything else book-related (but please don’t feel the need to go out and spend money on a costume).
This Green Moon
The Train Ride
We’re starting the half term with a focus on transport. This week, we’ve been reading The Train Ride by June Crebbin.
This story is about things that are seen out of the window, on a train journey. We noticed that the rhythm of the book’s repeated/rhyming lines start fast and repetitive (much like the sound of a train chugging along a track) and then as the train approaches the station, the lines become longer and the pace slows down until the train reaches is destination. Destination is our ‘word of the week’.
Historical links
We looked at pictures of the early steam locomotive- Robert Stephenson’s Rocket. We compared it to the trains we use today.
Phonics
Spring 2 week 1 has been a review of phase 3 sounds: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, oo, ow, oi, ear, in words and sentences. We review tricky words daily.
Tricky words can be just that-tricky! Here’s a game we play at school that you could try at home.
Roll and Read
You will need a die for this game. You may wish to print the boards or display them on a screen.
- Roll the die
- Count the spots, match to the correct row
- Choose a word to read on the row
- Cover the word when read correctly
- Repeat
Who will be the first to complete a row?
Maths: Comparison
We’ve been comparing groups of objects and toys, saying which has more and which has fewer. We’ve been noticing and explaining why size, colour and other factors do not matter when comparing ‘how many’.
In the classroom, children have been making 6 using Numicon frames.
This Green Moon
This week was a very special week for our Reception class as we went on our very first class trip to This Green Moon! As soon as we opened the doors in the morning the children were buzzing with excitement.
When we arrived at Green Moon, we were warmly greeted by the two leaders, Paul and Matt. They led the activities and supported us throughout the day – they were fantastically engaging and fun.
We thoroughly enjoyed spending the day outdoors, exploring the natural world around us. The children took part in so many exciting activities: making a fire, creating sculptures using potatoes, designing bracelets with pieces of coloured wool we found in the forest, and even working together to create a giant piece of artwork. It was fantastic to see their creativity and curiosity shining through.
What a fantastic day full of learning, laughter and adventure. Well done, Reception – we’re so proud of you all!
Year 3,4 Maths – subtraction
This week, the children have been learning how to use the column method for subtraction.
We have talked through the method and practised a lot. The children are starting to feel really confident.
Help at home by practising this method. Keep using NumBots to secure the number facts as this will help when working with larger numbers.
Computing
In Topic this half term, children will be learning about Computing.
Here is the vocabulary we will learn!
In our first lesson, we learnt about algorithms.
An algorithm is a set of instructions.
We created our own algorithms to get from the start to the finish of a simple offline game.
DT food
What a brilliant morning we have had in 1A! Today we did a DT food lesson, where we made fruit salad.
We used lots of different methods like peeling, chopping and mixing to create our juicy fruit salads. Lots of us enjoyed the fruit salad and even added yoghurt at the end.
Help at home by discussing healthy foods and encouraging children to help prepare food.