Living and Learning – Healthy Eating
This fortnight across Years 3 and 4 we have discussed healthy eating in Living and Learning, including the choices that we can make about what we eat and drink such as swapping a fizzy drink for juice or water and keeping sugary foods to a minimum. We looked at different scenarios and made suggestions about possible swaps (see image below).
Please help at home by discussing food and drink choices with us and asking us about our learning.
Meet the author – Bethan Woolvin
This week, Ks1 had the pleasure of taking part in a Zoom call with one of our favourite author and illustrators, Bethan Woolvin. The Zoom call was ran by the author of ‘Meet the Weather’, Caryl Hart and Bethan who illustrated the book.
During the zoom call, we read the story, sang, danced, drew some pictures and even got a tour around Bethan’s studio. It was great!
Living and Learning – five a day
This week’s Living and Learning statement is I know the importance of ‘five a day’.
In KS1 we have been exploring what counts towards our five a day. We know that having our five a day can help towards a healthy diet and helps to keep our bodies healthy. We know that a portion is about a handful of either fruit or vegetables. We learnt how we can achieve our five a day, by making some small changes to our diet.
Top tips:
- add fruit to your cereal
- drink a glass of fresh juice
- have salad with your salad, wrap or pizza
- include a portion of vegetables with your evening meal
- have at least one piece of fruit per day
Living and learning: I know the importance of a healthy diet
We have been discussing the importance of a healthy diet. We looked at which food groups make up a balanced diet and how this helps us to maintain a healthy body. We understand that different foods can give us different vitamins and minerals, whilst others give us energy.
We also talked about what a healthy lunch box looks like when we are at school. We know that it should contain lots of fruit and vegetables and no sugary snacks. This also counts for drinks – water is best!
Help at home: What does your child’s packed lunch for school look like? Could you make some healthier choices? Maybe make one healthy swap this week.
Coronation celebrations!
We have had a great day in school celebrating the King’s Coronation. The non-uniform day saw everyone turn up in some great outfits. The afternoon was spent playing games and having fun with different classes.
Coronation celebrations
We had a great time joining in with the coronation celebrations on Friday. Children looked at pictures of royal crowns and loved trying to pick up the tiny jewels to stick them onto their own crowns. It was very tricky to get the jewels to stick – a great fiddly fingers activity to improve fine motor skills!
In maths, we’re learning about the number 5 . We’ve been looking at the numeral 5, showing 5 on our fingers and noticing the pattern of 5 dots on a dice. We know that when we have 5 things, a five frame will be full.
Help at home: Can you put 5 strawberries on your plate? Remember to count each one carefully and stop when you reach the ‘stop’ number of five. If you have 4 Duplo bricks, how many more do you need to add to make a tower of 5? Spot the numeral on doors and signs when you’re walking to Nursery. Sing number songs such as 5 Little ducks, 5 Currant buns or 5 Little frogs. If you’re drawing, can you add 5 fingers to your person, 5 flowers or 5 bees?
We hope you enjoy the long weekend and look forward to hearing about any coronation parties next week.
Walking through the jungle
This week we’ve gone WILD exploring animals! We’ve been constructing animal habitats, making animal artwork and sorting images of deserts and rainforests.
Walking through the jungle
We’ve been reading Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome.
This repeating story was great for retelling from start to finish, as we recalled the ‘action words’ used throughout the story: walking, running, leaping, swinging, creeping and wading.
In our writing, we’ve been re-writing parts of the story in our own words.
Design and Technology; using a tool
Last week, we shared pictures of our ‘bug hotel’ project. This week, we’ve been adding to our construction by filling the structure with lots of hiding places for our minibeast friends. We looked closely at designs of existing minibeast homes and noticed that we needed to add holes to our pieces of wood. We’ve been carefully using the hand drills to create holes, holding the tool firmly in place and using our strength to wind the handle.
Maths; composing 5
In Maths, we’ve been composing 5 and using the song ‘5 little monkeys’ to explore the parts that make the whole number.
We’ve been using full sentences to explain what we can see on our fingers, as we move through the song:
“There are three monkeys on the bed, there are two monkeys that have bumped their head, there are five monkeys altogether”
We’ve represented our parts on a Hungarian frame (or ‘die frame’):
Help at home- Use 5 toys or teddies at home, to sing and act out your own version of ‘5 little monkeys’ (ie. ‘5 little teddies jumping on the bed…’) Pause after each object is removed (fallen off the bed) and encourage your child to describe the parts of 5 they see, using the full sentences described above.
Market stall maths!
Over the past two weeks, Rainbow and Sunshine class have enjoyed ‘paying’ for snack at the ‘market’ The children had to choose the correct coin (1p or 2p) depending on whether they wanted snack or snack and milk. The shop keeper had to collect the coins and give change if needed and then we counted the coins together- we even did a fantastic job of counting in 2’s, adding the 2p coins first! We recorded how much the market stall had taken each day.
Phonics
Summer 1 week 3 has focused on phase 4 words with short vowels and longer words. We’ve learnt the tricky words; were, here, little, says
In provision, we’ve been playing the game ‘Please Mr. Crocodile’ to revisit the phase 4 tricky words that we’ve learnt so far.
Help at home- Please continue to work through the weekly learn at home phonics sheets. We’ll continue to send these home each Friday.
Poetry Picnic
One week in every half term, we focus on a traditional nursery rhyme. This week we’ve been reciting Sing a song of sixpence
More pictures of our learning this week…
Reminders and Dates
Monday 8 May- Bank Holiday for The Coronation of King Charles III
Monday 15 May- School Closed: Training Day
Friday 19 May – Mini Bug Ball: Please don’t go to the expense of buying anything new – creative adaptations of something you’ve already got will be fantastic. Outfits need to be suitable for school, safe and warm enough to be worn all day.
SWIMMING DATES- Summer 1
Rainbow Class- 17 May
Sunshine Class- 10 May, 24 May
Coronation celebrations!
This afternoon we have had a fantastic time celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III. We had a special picnic as a school in the lunch hall. We also had the opportunity to go to different classrooms around the school, to play games. At the end of the day we had a little party back in our classrooms whilst we enjoyed some lovely snacks brought from home!
Have a fantastic Coronation weekend everybody! From Miss Young, Mrs Latham and Miss Lowry.
Imagining life as an evacuee
This half term, children in 5/6 have been learning about what life was like in Britain during World War II. After carrying out some research, watching some interviews and reading our class novel (Letters From a Lighthouse) we acted out what it would have been like for evacuees meeting their host family for the first time.
A home: discuss how it might feel having to move away from your home due to war. Link the experience of life in World War II to the experiences of refugees today.
Reproduction of flowers
In science children have been desecting flowers and conducting secondary research into finding out about how flowers reproduce. They have learned about how some flowers and plants, such as tulips, use pollinators to help reproduce while others (potatoes and strawberries) are asexual.
At home: grow some potatoes in a large tub or conduct a pollinator count as the weather improves. Take a walk in a wild meadow and count how many bees you see over a certain time. Watch as they visit flowers can carry pollen from one flower to another.
