PE and outdoor maths in 1,2B
We have enjoyed a bit of nice weather this week and taken some of our maths learning outside – counting in 5s.
Our PE lessons this half term are also going well. We have been playing ‘lions and hyenas’, first a whole class game and now mini-games. We can really feel the difference in our bodies when we exercise – increased heart rate, breathing harder and feeling warm!
Help at home by ensuring your child gets at least 60 minutes exercise per day (we do at least 30 mins in school each day).
2C Living and Learning fun!
This week in our living and learning lesson we were talking about resilience, which is one of our ‘Eight R’s’ in school. We know that resilience means not giving up, and trying even if at first we don’t succeed. We always try our best in our learning!
During circle time we each discussed something we are not good at, or have struggled with in the past.
One child said ‘I wasn’t very good at riding a bike when I was younger. But I kept on practising and now I can ride a bike without stabilisers.
The children know it isn’t possible to be good at every skill straight away, but with resilience we can overcome challenges.
During the second part of the session, we worked as a team to build a tower. The children had 8 minutes to work in a team and build the tallest tower. They were not allowed to use sellotape or glue but could use materials in the classroom to build.
See how they got on below!
The team that won took their time to find strong materials.
SK: ‘I realised the heavy things couldn’t go on top so I moved them to the bottom and then the tower was strong.’
Help at home: by discussing resilience regularly and that as long as we try our best, that’s the most important thing!
World Book Day – shared reading with 1,2B and 3,4C
We had a lovely time yesterday afternoon sharing books with children from different classes. 3,4C visited 1,2B and we partnered up to read to each other. There were lots of lovely conversations and some new friendships made whilst reading together.
World Book Day in 1A
Wow-what a day! 1A have set themselves the challenge of reading every Julia Donaldson book that we can find and we think that we have found a lot! The class have read one of their favourite JD books and created their own front cover for it. We took our JD book and school reading book to join up with 3/4A and read with them. Such a pleasure to enjoy books together!
1A have joined in a live web chat with the author Laura Baker in which we got to listen to her book ‘The full stop that got away’. In the session we even go to join in an art session to create her main character. We did this with 2C which was great!
Lots of reading, lots of fun and lots of sunshine! A perfect world book day.
Reading – Ollie’s magic bunny
We are using Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen as a focus for our reading and writing this half term. It’s helped us use our retrieval skills (answering questions about what happens in the book) and inference skills (thinking about character’s thoughts and feelings).
You can listen to the story here.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Y2 Maths – divide
Our focus in Maths at the moment is divide. Divide means to share equally. Equal means the same.
This week we are dividing by 5. We have been looking at lots of number stories and discussing exactly what each number in our equations represent.
‘The 15 represents all of the eggs.”
”The 5 represents the eggs in each nest.”
”The three represents the number of nests.”
We drew part-whole models to show how many fives make up a number. When we are thinking about multiples of 5, we know that the ones column must have either a 0 or a 5 in it.
”54 is not a multiple of 5 because even though it has a 5 in it, it is in the tens column. It needs to be in the ones column to be a multiple of 5.” (BC, 2C)
Help at home: by writing out dividing equations and really discussing what each number represents!
Remember – We always put the ‘big’ number at the start of a divide equations. This is the number we are dividing/ sharing.
Living and learning : strong emotions
We watched this story called Beegu. It is all about an alien who
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
KS1 – A little early World Book Day treat
Today, all three KS1 classes had the amazing opportunity to experience a zoom call with the renowned author Julia Donaldson and the talented illustrator Axel Scheffler.
The session started with Axel Scheffler reading us the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’. He then drew Bill and Janet from the story. We had a go at drawing along… but it was very fast!
Julia Donaldson then read us her story ‘Tiddler’. It was really lovely to hear for ourselves how she had imagined the voices would sound in the story. We listened attentively before Axel Scheffler then showed us how to draw Tiddler and Little Johnny Dory.
What a great start to the week!
Help at home: There are so many Julia Donladson stories, perhaps you could share some of them together at home. You can also find animated versions of the stories that we heard today a on BBC iplayer.
The Smeds and The Smoos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gncf/the-smeds-and-the-smoos
Tiddler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026dm6/tiddler
Welcome back!
2C have had a fantastic first week back in school. On Monday we started our DT food and we made overnight oats. Most of the children enjoyed the food and took a recipe home to try it out (maybe with a few tweaks)!
We’ve started to divide by 10 in Maths and we’ve looked at the relationship between multiply and divide.
‘If I know 10 x 2 = 20 then I know that 20 / 10 = 2’.
The children have continued to learn to join up their hand writing and have been writing some sentences about our new class novel ‘Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen.’
Well done for a great first week back at school 2C!
1A – Our Geography Journey
Learning about the streets around our school has been lots of fun. We have carried out fieldwork, presented data around our findings and written persuasive letters to Miss Hague.
During our fieldwork in Scholes village, we noticed that there wasn’t a safe place for people to cross the road safely near the Peace Flame and we saw how an older gentleman took a while to cross over to the bus stop. Another of our observations was that there was a lot of litter around the school gates. We really weren’t happy about that! Especially as there was not much litter elsewhere in Scholes! We decided to investigate further and carried out some more fieldwork. This time it would be on the school grounds.
During this fieldwork, we counted how many pieces of litter we could see on the KS1 playground, KS2 playground and the adventure playground. We weren’t happy to find that there was a lot of litter on the school grounds and we discussed how we could help the situation. Miss Hague often goes litter picking into Scholes village with some KS2 children and we wondered if she’d buy some litter pickers for KS1 too. We wrote some persuasive letters to her to try and convince her that it would be money well spent for school.
We eagerly await her decision…