Supertato!
This week began with a vegetable based mystery!
Who had captured the vegetables and why were they trapped?
It could only be one thing… EVIL PEA.
After reading the story Supertato, we read true and false statements to show our knowledge and understanding of the story.
The children enjoyed creating their own.
Can they tell you which ones are true or false?
Evil Pea drew on broccoli’s face. Libby
Supertato trapped Evil Pea in ice. Austin
Evil Pea wrapped cucumber in toilet paper. Isobel
Supertato nearly got squashed by Evil Pea. Florence
Maths
This week, we explored the composition of five in different ways. Using the song Five Little Speckled Frogs, we were able to develop our understanding of one less as well as explore the number bonds of five.
We played a game by throwing beanbags in a hoop and creating number statements to say how many were in or out of the hoop.
Four in the hoop and one out of the hoop.
4 and 1 make 5
Poetry Picnic
Our sessions this week have been a little different as we learnt and recited a traditional nursery rhyme.
The children used gestures and expression to recite Jack and Jill.
Phonics
Spring 1 week 2 has focused on the digraphs ur, ow, oi, ear.
We’ve learnt the tricky words; my, by, all.
Tricky words are words that should be read by sight.
Each week, we’d like to give you an idea of a game you could play at home to make reading even more exciting.
This week’s game is: Tricky Word Splat
- Write a selection of tricky words on paper/sticky notes.
- Place around the room/floor.
- Say a tricky word for your child to splat. You might jump on the words, splat with a masher or create your own ideas.
Focus Artist: Yayoi Kusama
Over the next two weeks, we will be exploring the art of Yayoi Kusama. This week, we have been colour mixing and drawing different sized dots onto pumpkin pictures.
We visited a special one day only Scholes Art Galley and used sentence stems to talk about our opinions.
I like it because..
I don’t like it because…
I like it because it’s colourful. Kitson
I don’t like it because of the spikes. Sofia
I like it because of the flowers. F
I like the explosion of poppies everywhere. Myla
The children had an opportunity to observe before drawing their favourite piece of art.
Provision
Cancelled swim session
There will be no swimming (for Rainbow Class) on Wednesday 31.01.24.
Abbey House Museum Photos for 1A
Science: we are chemists
Science this week has led to the children investigating which materials make the best thermal insulators. Thermal insulators don’t let heat pass through easily or quickly. They planned their enquiry and tested bubble wrap, tin foil and fabric. Which one would keep the water hottest for longest?
The children used thermometers to measure the temperature every five minutes and they recorded their results. Next week we will analyse the results to see which was the best insulator.
Year 1 maths : place value to 20
We are starting to look more closely at numbers to 20, exploring their composition in terms of tens and ones. We will be ordering and comparing numbers, as well as representing them in different ways.
Help at home by counting forwards and backwards to 20. Talk about how many tens and ones are in numbers eg 14 is made of ten and four.
Year 2 maths : introducing multiplication and division
The year 2s have begun to learn about multiplication and division. We are counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and then linking this to calculations. We are spending time talking about what each number represents in a calculation.
Help at home by encouraging your child to play on Times Tables Rockstars and watch BBC Supermovers videos.
Abbey House Museum- 1A
Apologies for the lack of photos. The technician has my iPad and hopefully we can post photos before long. The children were incredible and we all had an amazing day.
FYI-We have updated all children’s e-books so you can access their new book online. We did not have the opportunity today to write the title of these books in your child’s individual reading record. Happy reading!
Exploring Nursery
We had a busy week settling yellow group into Nursery and helping them to explore their new environment. They’re all doing really well and are gradually getting to know us and beginning to make some new friends. Please try not to worry if your child has a little wobble when they’re saying good bye to you in the morning. They usually find somewhere to play and settle very quickly (and we would always contact you if they didn’t).
It was very chilly outside this week; we talked about the cold weather and explored ice in the sensory area. We’re hoping we’ll be able to play in our Nursery garden soon – children are looking forward to seeing the changes.
Next week’s learning:
We noticed lots of children were interested in dinosaurs so over the next few weeks, we’ll learn all about dinosaurs and enjoy reading ‘Dinosaur Stomp’.
Sound of the week – g for goat
Nursery Rhyme of the week –Row, row, row your boat
Ice!
Spring 1 is our Fire and Ice theme, we’ve been using nature to explore freezing and melting- what a perfectly cold week it has been to do so!
Lost and Found
We’ve continued to focus on the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.
We’ve been linking the story to topic work. We looked at a world map to see how the boy and penguin would travel from where we live (The United Kingdom), to The South Pole in Antarctica. We recalled what we know about the world map from our previous learning:
“The blue bit is the sea”- Isobel
“The coloured bits is land”- Finlay
“I see The South Pole at the bottom”- Norah
We’ve also been comparing our weather to that in the continent of Antarctica. Our word of the week is: climate.
We’ve been writing ‘Missing’ posters, describing the penguin from our story. In provision, we’ve been writing a list of things we might pack to take on an Antarctic adventure.
Penguin observations
We’ve been zoologists this week- observing the livestream ‘penguin-cam’, from San Diego Zoo
We’ve been making notes on how the penguins move and interact with each other. We were even lucky enough to catch feeding time during one livestream!
The children have loved this activity and it has inspired some wonderful child-led learning…
An amazing small world model was carefully created whilst watching the livestream and reading non-fiction books on penguins- “They need rocks here because that’s what they have in there”
The children were keen to find out about different types of penguins and their different sizes. The tallest penguin (Emperor) and shortest penguin (Little Blue) were marked on the height chart in Sunshine room and children compared them with their own height!
Ice painting
We made ice paintings by freezing paint mixed with water and creating art tools with them.
First, we collected them from the freezer
“it’s so cold in the freezer…it has to be in there a long time”- Charlotte
Then, we needed to get them out of the ice cube tray
“Our hands are warm, so we can get the ice out if we hold the ice”- Jake
We noticed the difference in how well the tools painted, as the ice began to melt.
“you have to wait for it to melt a bit, then it paints… it works!”- Heidi
We looked at the weather outside throughout the week and had a discussion about whether we needed to use the freezer. We experimented to see if we could make ice by leaving water trays outside, as the weather has been below freezing. The children were amazed to discover ice canvases we could paint on!
d:side
This week’s Living and Learning statement is: I know that some drugs can be harmful
d:side visited Reception and discussed different ways to keep our minds and bodies healthy:
- identifying and managing emotions- using a puppet with different facial expressions and some ‘real-life’ scenarios to identify feelings. We also played ‘Feelings bingo’
- making healthy food choices- filling a packed lunch box
- the importance of sleep
- keeping our bodies clean- identifying hygiene items such as toothbrushes and saying how and when we use them
- being safe around medicine- looking at a medicine bottle, discussing child caps, where medicine should be stored and who is allowed to give us medicine.
The children shared some great ideas and existing knowledge during the activities.
Phonics Phase 3 Stay and Learn
Thank you to the parents and carers who were able to join us for another Stay and Learn session this week.
We hope you enjoyed watching a lesson, getting to spend time in the classroom and hopefully getting some more ideas and information for the next steps in our phonics journey.
Maths; the staircase pattern
In Maths, we’ve been looking at counting and ordinality- specifically, the ‘one more’ relationship that creates ‘the staircase pattern’.
We were introduced to the concept by the Numberblocks, before moving on to create our own staircase patterns in small groups.
In provision, we’ve been using Frayer models to explore numbers- counting the corresponding amount of cubes/teddies, finding the Numicon and representing it on a tens frame.
Phonics
Spring 1 week 2 has focused on the digraphs oo, oo, ar, or
We’ve learnt the tricky words; was, you, they
Tricky words are words that should be read by sight.
In provision, we’ve been playing roll and read.
Each week, we’d like to give you an idea of a game you could play at home to make reading even more exciting.
This week’s game is: Tricky Word Bingo
- Enter the list of tricky words you want to focus on into an online ‘picker’ (pickerwheel.com is an easy to use option) or write them down onto strips of paper, to be picked at random.
- Ask your child to choose 4-6 tricky words and write them down (they can copy these from a list), you should do the same and you could even ask a sibling to play along too!
- Pick the tricky words at random or by clicking the wheel- who will be the first to cross off all of their words and shout BINGO?!!
Poetry Picnic
Each week we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers. This week’s poem is called I can build a snowman
We talk about how a poem sometimes has rhyming words and sometimes doesn’t. We also talk about how a poem can have a fast rhythm or a slow rhythm.
Click below to watch Reception recite this week’s poem!
Help at home; Superheroes
Next week, our focus story is about a very special veggie superhero (can you guess what it is?)
We would love for your child to draw and write about their favourite superhero. It could be their favourite character or a real-life person who is a superhero to them- perhaps they know someone who helps others in their job, raises money for charity or is generally just super!
Please send them into class to be shown or email photos over to the usual email address:
scholesreception@spherefederation.org
Cancelled swim session
There will be no swimming (for Rainbow Class) on Wednesday 31.01.24.
Abbey House trip – 1,2B
We had a fabulous fun-filled day at Abbey House Museum today, learning about life in the past. The children asked and answered some interesting questions. They represented Scholes Elmet Primary School brilliantly.
Abbey House museum
We have had a fantastic time at Abbey House museum today. All of our learning links with our current History topic.
